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Show Grownup Children Watch a ".rang' of small boys who are real friends. They spend part of the time pounding each other, part of it calling each other names, part of it seriously fighting the 'other gang, and the rest in playing fighting games. Thus their friendship grows, until it becomes a precious thing, to be trasured through ail the long memories of non-combative manhood and old age. Pick up your Iliad, the greatest literary monument of the childhood of the world. It is an epic of fighting men who never grew up. There are miniature Iliads in every backyard, the building Odysseys in every trip to the old swimnrng hole. And watch the antics of childish men, who conduct the affairs of nations, playing with the terrible weapons of science and the lives and fortunes of men like irresponsive urchins, who know nothing to do with clods and stones but throw them at each other. Vili the world never grow up? |