Article January 15, 1921 Issue

Man's Capacity

ERIC BROWN

There are few things that human belief has first ordained and then taken more completely for granted down through all the ages than man's incapacity. A man has been thrust into the world to do or to be whatever limited opportunity and ungovernable circumstances permitted him to do or to be, and no more. So Shakespeare put into the mouth of his cynical Jacques:—

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

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