Othello. In imitation of the earnest and forthright general, Iago 
hotted up his own image and wore his heart on his sleeve, until 
General Othello read him loud and clear as “honest Iago,” a 
man after his own grimly earnest heart.

     Throughout The City in History , Lewis Mumford favors the 
cool or casually structured towns over the hot and intensely 
filled-in cities. The great period of Athens, he feels, was one 
during which most of the democratic habits of village life and 
participation still obtained. Then burst forth the full variety of 
human expression and exploration such as was later impossible 
in highly developed urban centres. For the highly developed 
situation is, by definition, low in opportunities of participation, 
and rigorous in its demands of specialist fragmentation from 
those who would control it. For example, what is known as “job 
enlargement” today in business and in management consists in