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of his social state. It is the newspapers he reads and the famous men and women about whom he hears. There is no limit to environment.
INHERITANCE AND ENVIRONMENT
Their racial inheritances — their instincts, passions and fundamental ideals — make men understand each other. Their environment brings differences of opinion, brings fears and misunderstanding. It is environment which makes the Englishman different from the Japanese, the German from the Italian, the Swede from the Russian. Environment creates a difference in the men and women of the same nation. The Scotchman, Welshman and Irishman are different from the Englishman. In America there is a marked difference of characteristics in the people of New England, of the South and of the West.
That factor in environment which is work or business, makes a difference between those who work with their hands and those who work with their brains. It creates differences among the various classes of business and professional men — the merchant and lawyer, the banker and the college professor. It makes the laboring men of different trades different. Watch a Labor Day parade, note how the work a man is engaged in will leave its mark on him. The teamsters, truckmen and muscular out-of-doors worker; the round-shouldered, sunkenchested garment-makers; the clerks and bookkeepers and the carpenters, masons and painters; the bakers and weavers and machinists, all bear the marks of their occupation.
The work of the school teacher, the newspaper reporter and the factory employe makes a difference in the woman. That factor in environment which is play and social custom makes a difference in the society butterfly and the home-making type of woman.
We might go on endlessly. But we have given illustrations enough to help the student continue his own character study. In such study you must take into consideration both heredity and environment. They have largely made your characters what they are. We say "largely," for there is another, a spiritual force — "that something" — in a man, which, if he use it, will help him to free himself from the limiting influences of all these other forces.
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