Isn't it amazing to think that a daisy and a gladioli are both equally flowers? And that a pekinese and an alsation are equally dogs? Yet we would laugh if a daisy were to say (supposing it could talk) of a gladioli, 'That is not an attractive flower. A flower should be small and white and have a yellow heart'. Or if a pekinese said of an alsation, 'That is not a superior dog. A dog should be brown and squat and have a snub nose'. Human beings similarly need to observe their fellows with a liberal eye, not measuring the appearance of other people by their own appearance. How intolerably dull a town centre would be if all the human beings walking around there looked alike! Instead a town centre is as exciting as a Chelsea Flower Show or a Crufts Dog Show in its variety in shape size and colour of the human being.
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