maelstrom — round he goes and down he goes, strive
as he may : —

"Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdin."

13. As between the two classes of stimuH here under
review and in reference to the respective sexes, sup-
pose (what is conditionally supposable only) that one
or else the other stimulant must be endured, or sup-
pose (what is quite supposable) that one or the other
will be had and used, which shall we appropriate to
which, as a pis-aller and with regard to adaptation
and consequences ? Inebriation upon alcoholics
being of the intermittent type occjisions certainly
less frequent perturbations of the faculties and less
considerable disarrangements of business, and opium
in private use is as surely less revolting in appear-
ance, less debasing by example ; therefore leave the
bottle with the man rather, and for the woman let
her rove in her New-found-land of dreams and rev-
eries and hallucinations and fantasies.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE ALTERNATIVE THE VINE OR THE POPPY WHICH?

** Hoc sustinete, majus ne veniat, malum." — Ph^eDRUS.
•'II vaut mieux d'employer notre esprit a supporter les infortunes
qui nous arrivent qu'i pr^voir celles qui nous peuvent arriver." —
Rochefoucauld.
