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I sometimes ask myself (when there is no one else to pester) whether the present tendency toward Primitivism, in Art, Religion, Government, Conduct and Costume (everything in fact) may not be a sign that the world is coming, if not already come, to its second childhood, and I invariably answer myself in the affirmative.
Second Childhood, as of course you know, is the "happy hour" of an old age whose faculties have diminished to the exact degree that marks the undeveloped mental and physical attributes of infancy.