ABSTRACT
The sage who said, “Scratch a savant and find a Tartar,” would make us all out as wild men. No one has ever sifted the grains of truth from the saying—it would perhaps not be worth while. But it does express the fact that all are subject to irritant influences which exert a profound effect. And when people are seen to be not such mythical beings, each encased within his varnish-coat of social veneer, but social groupings and social beings—interpenetrating systems of interaction which does not stop at the surface, the predicament is a real one.
