Primitive people, even more than we, were at the mercy of the weather. They were
considerably less sheltered than we are. And they did not have the wide variety of
resources that we do to compensate for a crop-killing frost or drought. Plus, for them, the
weather had that extra element of mystery. It was both beyond their knowledge and
beyond their control. They did not know what tomorrow might bring, and they couldn't
do anything to guarantee it.
Our relationship to the weather is somewhat different. We certainly still find ourselves
