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of it brings efforts to decrease it; and when it has much ures shall be taken for its extinction; natural means hav- ence showing how extreme were the excesses 6f our great- grandfathers. but with the use of the good things of the world. I are gaining, these practices are recognized as evil, and The very fact that we have anti-alcoholists today proves that conditions have greatly improved. As diminished, there comes a strong demand that strong meas- decline in drunkenness which has taken place since the an evil is very great it attracts little or no attention; that when, from one or other cause, it is mitigated, recognition What has produced the transformation that has since taken ill-balanced minds want to do away, not with the abuse, Elsewhere I have illustrated the curious truth that while cannot help thinking of what Herbert Spencer said in Progress of Temperance in Eating and Drinking. advocacy of legislation for suppressing it. The occasion long as everybody ate and drank to excess, there was arises. One of the instances T named was the immense nothing improper seen in it. Now that higher ideas for recalling this instance has been the discovery of evid- this connection : place? Not legislation, not stern repression, not coercion. but the getting away from more primitive conditions. . eighteenth century, followed during recent times by a loud ing done so much, a peremptory call for artificial means