Excerpt from How It All Fits Together: A Novice's Introduction to the Game of Life

It is with no little trepidation that I venture to launch this frail barque upon the stormy seas of public criticism.

The cargo comprises nothing new. All that it contains has been handled, not once but many times, by writers of distinction and by scientific thinkers with whom I have no thought of setting myself in rivalry. Usually, however, the products of their workshops have appeared in the shape of ponderous tomes, filled through and through with technicalities of phrasing and illustrated by amazing diagrams which do not seem, to the busy everyday reader, to enliven the subject matter, or indeed to serve any useful end. The professional student realises the great value, for him, of the seemingly pedantic phraseology and all the accompanying technical paraphernalia. He knows that by their aid he, at least, can walk with surer tread through the intricate mazes of that enthralling "study of mankind in the ordinary business of life," which I propose, for the benefit of another type of reader, here to handle afresh.

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