Chapter 2

           Thatsuchafamily,thuscursorilypresented,mighthaveadifferentandsomewhatpeculiarhistorycouldwellbeanticipated,anditwouldbetrue.Indeed,thisonepresentedoneofthoseanomaliesofpsychicandsocialreflexandmotivationsuchaswouldtaxtheskillofnotonlythepsychologistbutthechemistandphysicistaswell,tounravel.Tobeginwith,AsaGriffiths,thefather,wasoneofthosepoorlyintegratedandcorrelatedorganisms,theproductofanenvironmentandareligioustheory,butwithnoguidingormentalinsightofhisown,yetsensitiveandthereforehighlyemotionalandwithoutanypracticalsensewhatsoever.Indeeditwouldbehardtomakeclearjusthowlifeappealedtohim,orwhatthetruehueofhisemotionalresponseswas.Ontheotherhand,ashasbeenindicated,hiswifewasofafirmertexturebutwithscarcelyanytruerormorepracticalinsightintoanything.

           Thehistoryofthismanandhiswifeisofnoparticularinterestheresaveasitaffectedtheirboyoftwelve,ClydeGriffiths.Thisyouth,asidefromacertainemotionalismandexoticsenseofromancewhichcharacterizedhim,andwhichhetookmorefromhisfatherthanfromhismother,broughtamorevividandintelligentimaginationtothings,andwasconstantlythinkingofhowhemightbetterhimself,ifhehadachance;placestowhichhemightgo,thingshemightsee,andhowdifferentlyhemightlive,ifonlythis,thatandtheotherthingsweretrue.

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