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200 guilty! And we—are we not ripe yet for an opposite view? Shall we not yet be allowed to say, The guilty are the sick? No, the hour has not yet come. As yet we lack first and foremost those physicians in whose opinion the morals, heretofore called practical, have become an integral portion of their medical art and science; as yot we lack that intense interest in these things which, some day, may perhaps come upon us like the storm and stress of those ancient religious ecstasies; as yet the churches are not in possession of the guardians of health: as yet the precepts, respecting our bodies and our diet, are not among the tenets of all higher and lower schools; as yet we have no private societies of people pledging each other to do without tribunals and the punishment and revenge now meted out to offenders: as yet no thinker has lead the courage to adjust the healthfulness of society an individuals to the number of parasites that could be maintained; and as yet there has been no founder of a State who would use the ploughshare in the spirit of that generous and charitable saying, “If thou wilt till the land, till it with the plough: so that the bird and the wolf, walking behind thy plough, may rejoice in thee— may every creature rejoice in thee." —Fie upon the repasts which people nowadays partake of, both in hotels and elsewhere, where the well-to-do classes of society live! Even when