They must still remain true to their own traditions.

We could not wish it to be otherwise.
The art of making love and the art of being virtuous;--two aspects of the great art of living that are, rightly regarded, harmonious and not at variance--remain, indeed, when we cease to misunderstand them, essentially the same in all ages and among all peoples.

Yet, always and everywhere, little modifications become necessary, little, yet, like so many little things, immense in their significance and results.

In this way, if we are really alive, we flexibly adjust ourselves to the world in which we find ourselves, and in so doing simultaneously adjust to ourselves that ever-changing world, ever-changing, though its changes are within such narrow limits that it yet remains substantially the same.

It is with such modification that we are concerned in these Little Essays.
H.E.
_London, 1921_ CONTENTS.