Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It has been maintained by Friedrich Nietzsche that a man writes to get rid of his thoughts. This is in essence true, but the process is not merely one of excretion. Undoubtedly the writer is often distressingly conscious of being too full of chaotic impressions, also he suffers from the vagueness of his emotion. Besides wishing for relief from this pressure, he desires to make crystalline what is amorphous and vague. Each such re-crystallization marks a stage of development, and is followed by a period of rest. The process of writing besides being excretory is also formative in that it changes the formless to the crystalline. It might be said that the writer becomes subjective that his objectivity may ultimately be the clearer. He writes that he may find his own thoughts.
In the process, experience becomes part of conscious knowledge. Life is thus made deeper. In this book a picture is given of a small group of men and women who for the greater portion of their lives have lived in the normal surroundings of material interdependence which we call civilization.