Adam, thrown on the world with not even a radio salesman or a barber to fill the conversational gaps in his daily communion with Nature, experienced the first pangs of loneliness. Of course he had Eve, but even Eve's vocabulary was cruelly limited at that time. It is page 15 this heritage of loneliness which first brought man and man together in an attempt to mitigate his solitary state of mind. Loneliness is the penalty of enlightenment and the fly of disillusion in the ointment of Progress; for language has not yet been invented sufficiently subtle to convey from man to man the ripest fruit of his thought processes.