Excerpt from This Simian World, the Crow's Nest, Thoughts Without Words, God and My Father: In the Green Mountain Country, Scenes From the Mesozoic Life With Father After All Life With Mother Life With Father, Made Into a PlayLast Sunday, Potter took me out driving along upper Broadway, where those long rows of tall new apartment houses were built a few years ago. It was a mild afternoon and great crowds of people were out. Sunday afternoon crowds. They were not going anywhere, they were just strolling up and down, staring at each other, and talking. There were thousands and thousands of them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This Simian World, the Crow's Nest, Thoughts Without Words, God and My Father: In the Green Mountain Country, Scenes From the Mesozoic Life With Father After All Life With Mother Life With Father, Mad

Clarence Day

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Four hundred eighty Madison Avenue, New York, was the home of the Clarence Day family in the 1880s. The times were prosperous and the nation strong, in Clarence Day, Sr.'s view largely because he willed it thus. His prayers reflected this: they turned to shooting matches if God failed to act on schedule. 
Father Day's presence dominates each scene just as it has since his son began telling tales about him in the magazines of the 1930s.

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There is plenty of whimsicality in the literary market. Most of it, unfortunately, has that note of the facetious spinster which the New England magazines have made so famous. Mr. Clarence Day's whimsicality is quite virile; it is the expression of a naturally ingenuous mind; "innocent" in the Nietzschean sense and not incapable of a certain gentle philosophic malice. In "This Simian World" Mr. Day invades the animal kingdom in the spirit of La Fontaine in order to discover man; his aim is to aid the dissemination of a realistic view of life. Are we or are we not Simians? [he asks]. It is no use for any man to try to think anything else out until he has decided first of all, where he stands on that question.... If we are fallen angels, we should go this road: if we are super-apes, that. Mr. Day entertains the question, but not too long; he not only asserts that we are Simians, he points out the danger of becoming under-simianized: “Look at Mrs. Humphry Ward and George Washington. Worthy souls, but no flavour." And he then shows how the decision bears upon education. politics, industry, etc., the right line in each case being that which is most congruous with our own nature and best fitted to develop it. Mr. Day is at his cleverest in his account of natural selection. He surveys the possibilities of all the other animals, suggests what the world would have been like if the cats, the pigs or the elephants had become the masters and created a feline, a porcine or an elephantine civilization, and shows why the Simians won the race. In effect. he draws an ethic from Darwinism, one that compares more than favourably with Herbert Spencer’s. —The Freeman, Volume 1 [1920]

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Last Sunday, Potter took me out driving along upper Broadway, where those long rows of tall new apartment houses were built a few years ago. It was a mild afternoon and great crowds of people were out. Sunday afternoon crowds. They were not going anywhere,--they were just strolling up and down, staring at each other, and talking. There were thousands and thousands of them.

Clarence Day's comic stories of his father, Clarence "Clare" Day Senior are taken from the "New Yorker" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker who demands that everything from his family should be just so. When it isn't, all hell breaks loose and an amusing sight it is too from a safe enough distance. Clare is intolerant, tyrannical and plain obnoxious in his constant battle to harness the world to his way of thinking. He rages against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, the need for holidays, the need to be ill and, of course, the inability of his children to live up to his impossible standards. Yet, the more he rails, the more comic a figure he cuts and the more he blusters, the more lovable this makes him to his own beleaguered family.

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This Simian World By Clarence Day Last Sunday, Potter took me out driving along upper Broadway, where those long rows of tall new apartment houses were built a few years ago. It was a mild afternoon and great crowds of people were out. Sunday afternoon crowds. They were not going anywhere,--they were just strolling up and down, staring at each other, and talking. There were thousands and thousands of them. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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This Simian World, the Crow's Nest, Thoughts Without Words, God and My Father: In the Green Mountain Country, Scenes From the Mesozoic Life With Father After All Life With Mother Life With Father, Mad

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