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4 C. KENNEDY fj. S. M. P. E.
form has been heralded by the Press as the promise of a new wonder of the age, but, from the point of view of general interest, has failed of its mark. Even very real steps in advance have been turned to account only for technical side issues, such as surveying, or have become the hobby of a somewhat fanatical brotherhood of camera owners who have, in their enthusiasm, gone even as far as to publish their own periodical, but have never succeeded in establishing stereo photography as a normal and basic means of presenting visual truth. Recent technical literature is full of mournful allusions to the beauties of stereoscopy, and the assertion that there is no sensible explanation of its failure to find its proper recognition. Yet one can not possibly postulate apathy upon the part of the public : if we may take the newspapers as an indication of the attitude of the masses we can discern in their policy so tense an expectation that stereo is to be the new order of things that they rush into print with the wildest schemes of the crank inventor. Recognizing this, the Carnegie Corporation had reason to hope that the trouble lay only in the fact that the public had not been given solid enough food — that they had outgrown their wonder at viewing a child with a doll through an antimacassar, and even the Obelisk of Luxor — and it was the writer's job to make new stereograms providing material for more serious pursuits — for the study of the sculptures of Donatello and of Michelangelo. It was in trying to do this that I became aware of factors that provided, I believe, a more fundamental explanation of the situation, and gave me faith in the importance of stereo in the future.
These factors may be summarized under two headings, of one of which we are acutely aware. This is the unsocial character of all practical stereo viewing to date : it has remained, in a sense, a laboratory phenomenon, because only one person at a time can see a given view; and even he must, for that moment, submit to being cut off from the outside world while he holds his eyes stationary before a piece of unfamiliar apparatus. Though that is probably the chief reason why stereo has remained a thing apart, it is doubtful whether it can alone account for the apathy of the serious student in fields such as the writer's. To explain such apathy we must first postulate a property of the intelligence that shows not in conscious theories but in conduct. Apathy, dissatisfaction, or an unreasoning aversion may be the result of an unanalytic recognition of positive faults or even of the lack of something essential, though the individual may be quite unaware of the nature or the cause of his reactions. My own