And how can we expect the badly bred, badly trained, badly taught degenerate to succeed like the well-bred, well-trained, and well-taught hero?
What Mr. Campbell calls John Bunyan's "manhood"—the manhood that "raised him above his environment"—was largely composed of environment.
There never yet has been a hero whose heroism was not in a great measure due to his environment. Let any one who doubts this look back to our suggestions of the fate of a child born into evil environments.
Every man is largely what environment has made him. No man can be independent of environment: but for environment he could never live to be a man at all.
And now let us consider some of the good and evil things environment may do.
CHAPTER EIGHT—GOOD AND BAD SURROUNDINGS
|THERE are many who always think of environment as something bad.
We hear a good deal about men who "rise above their environment"; but we seldom hear of men who are uplifted by their environment.