and oppressive study. Not the " Socraticis sapientia
libris" nor exercises upon the calculus will meet the
existing want; commend rather

" Instead of Euclid's corollaria
The ratios of a jig or aria."

Ball-playing and quoits, the saddle interchanging
with the democrat-wagon, rail-car exercise to help
on digestion and to provoke lagging sleep, cheerful
company, festive scenes and rural pastimes, — such
are the agencies and agents that will help to disen-
thral the opium-bound prisoner, far transcending the
metamorphoses wrought by any fabled Asmodeus.
II. But inasmuch as "the life is more than meat,"
we must have a care in making provision for the
man physical to regard with no blinking eye the
moral aspects and needs. We have to deal with sub-
jects whose will if not absolutely dormant is held
under the control of a superior and an extraneous
force as well. This fact is tersely expressed in the
language of Dr. John Reid : " The idea that nervous
complaints are subject to the control of the will-power
is a fallacy." What avail then dialectic formularies
a-la-Sorbonne, or indeed only plain homilies of the
hortatory cast addressed to the " moral sense," when
that sense if not already dead and buried is at least
benumbed into a fatal torpidity ?

" Anchora an teneat quern non tenuere Penates?"

Remonstrance though backed by reason rarely sufficeb
to make any effectual stand against the cravings of an
impetuous bodily appetite :



Geftcral ThcrapcKtics, and Moral Hygeiene. 235

" Reproaches come too late —
They search, but cure not."*

12. Or if the penitent soul shivering in its agony
is yet ahve to a sense of its deep degradation and
gaUing bondage, not

" The February face.
