Show WHY V T Do Men Have Instinctive Fear of the Darkness S And while I am on Ull the tue question l of oC Influences I would like JIe to add my testimony concerning t th that ha I enigmatic sensation the fear of the dark Why thy i la Is it do rio you OU suppose that two grown men Omen who have deliberately fled nell the time thereat reat it-ctt White Ways of or the Joys jOS jOSof of oC the lie gt great unlimited why why should they prefer to HI stick sUck around the campfire campfire campfire camp- camp fire after lark dark Once I slept alone in iii the woods for o l tv months and at atthe tile end the he end of that time tune I wa was po PU more broken cn from from the faint distrust of ot something l' l the firelight than at atthe attile attle tile the b beginning It was the safest place In tn the tile world m my Adirondack camp There were no dangerous animals no dan dangerous erous insects no snakes no tramps I took tonic supper regularly with friends on iii the other side sidle of the la lake c Paddled over oyer alone under glorious heavens and ahll suffered no nil feeling of or the nerves But Dut my ray tent was 50 GO feet back from the nt waters water's rs r's edge and those 50 0 feet fed through darkness up the familiar plUth verged on the unpleasant 1 I should have left a lantern on In the thc landIng landIng land- land Ing lag to light lt me nie home but that se seemed chIldish There was always relief reller I had bad lighted the lantern in my tent tenta tent tent- I a very slight relief leIler but actual 1 I never thought about being alone after the light wits was burning or minded wak waking r ing up at ut night I would like ik to know whether forest ran rangers ers Yellowstone guards mUltI and all aIr the citizens whose legal business Is conducted coil coil- con con- ducted after dark have this same faint distrust district of It that is many degrees degrees degrees de de- de- de grees less Jess than fright yet ret a shade different from daylight ease ellse All our men cave ancestors could not have been heen arrant cowards lyl lying g In mortal terror at the time approach of twilight Yet anything thing short of Unit could scarcely carcel hae have survived as as Instinct when so so ninny many other instincts have fallen by hy the way Fromn From T. T Morris Longstreth's th's The Adirondacks Adirondack |