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antidote of sports and games to create countervailing force.
They bog down into grim earnest. Men without art, and men
without the popular arts of games, tend toward automatism.
A comment on the different kinds of games played in the
British Parliament and the French Chamber of Deputies will rally
the political experience of many readers. The British had the
luck to get the two-team pattern into the House benches,
whereas the French, trying for centralism by seating the
deputies in a semicircle facing the chair, got instead a
multiplicity of teams playing a great variety of games. By trying
for unity, the French got anarchy. The British, by setting up
diversity, achieved, if anything, too much unity. The British
representative, by playing his “side,” is not tempted into private
mental effort, nor does he have to follow the debates until the
ball is passed to him. As one critic said, if the benches did not