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tent few, a kind of natural selection that perhaps has value, but the wastage involved is too immense ever to be realised to the full.
It is easier for a machine that has the capacity to make for discomifort to be endured than for a machine to be accepted that contains elements of pleasure. The first victories of steel and wire and electricity were in factories, partly on account of economic conditions, partly also because their use did not involve enjoyment. When art becomes invohxd, or the possibility of pleasure the opposition still felt by most people over thirty five towards machinery in any form, can be repressed no longer and comes violently to the surface.
Films teach crime, are bad for the e\'esight, cinemas breed germs, movies are responsible for all the evils and the restlessness of the modern ^ age. They were no cinemas to speak of in 1910 but the World War happened. Epidemics at least of some diseases are decreasing in violence since 1920.
Watch any small child learning to write. He is unable to control the movements of his hand and wrist and so the letters straggle. Instead of realizing that it is the hand which is to blamic the child seeing the letter, translates the fault to be with the eye. He bends lower and lower until his nose almost touches the paper. This is seldom or never corrected by the teacher. The result is quite often impaired eyesight through using the wrong eye-muscles. But it is hardly ever traced to its actual cause.
But put a child of the same age at the typewriter. In a week he will be printing letters. The sheer mechanism of
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