Often the individual bemoans the depression of environment. A converse
fact may be referred to, namely, that man produces his own environment.
It is in his power largely to make his own world, by paying attention
to the things of himself. An illustration of this is found by an
English writer who insists that we can make our own climates, as he
says:
Effective sanitary ventilation should supply gentle and
uniformly diffused currents of air of moderate and equal
temperature throughout the house. We talk a great deal about
the climate here and the climate there; and when we grow old,
and can afford it, we move to Bournemouth, Torquay, Menton,
Nice, Algiers, etc., for better climates, forgetting all the
while that the climate in which we practically live is not that
out-of-doors, but the indoor climate of our dwellings, the
which, in a properly constructed house, may be regulated to
correspond to that of any latitude we may choose.
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