ABSTRACT
IF, as was suggested in the last chapter, a child from his earliest days makes his own pattern of the world he lives in, his parents and his surroundings take a great part in supplying the material and influencing the design, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. The child brought up in a crowded city where policemen see to his comings and goings from school to home, where shopkeepers supply his needs of food, clothing and sweets, where the streets are his habitation and the lights of the buses and cars his shooting stars, must carry with him all his life a different background from that of the village child who possibly connects the policeman with poaching, depends far more on home and the allotment for food, has his first games in a neighbouring field, perhaps round a special tree or by a special pond, connects one village shop with all his shopping, and only knows of traffic as the cars that make one or two roads no good for games. That motor-buses and the gradual spread of building are making the country more like the town will necessarily make the countryman more like the townsman.
