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flock to the movies do so because they love to lose themselves in the excitements of a dream-world, a world that bears no relationship to life as they know it, that makes no demand upon the intelligence, acts like a drug, and is altogether demoralising and devitalising.
Such people obviously know very little about the movies. But even if they did, even if they cared to take their chance and now and again submit themselves to the experience of a thoroughly popular show, it is hardly likely that they would lose their apparent inability to distinguish between childishness, the quality that has of late been so admirably analysed and presented under the label of infantilism, and childlikeness, w^hich is quite another thing. The child trusts its world, and those who, in all civilisations and within all circumstances, in face of all evidence and no matter what experience, cannot rid themselves of a child-like trust are by no means to be confused with those who shirk problems and responsibilities and remain ego-centrically within a dream-world that bears no relation to reality.
The battles and the problems of those who trust life are not the same as the battles and problems of those who regard life as the raw^ material for great conflicts and great works of art. But only such as regard the Fine Arts as mankind's sole spiritual achievement wrll reckon those w^ho appear not to be particularly desirous of these achievements as therefore necessarily damned.
Dorothy M. Richardson.
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