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 They ate a great many sweet things. Their state of mind was always joyous, and they spent their time making holiday, visiting one another, walking about. … When the obvious absurdity of their refusing to work was pointed out to them, one heard every time by way of answer the stereotyped phrase: 'If I want to, I'll work; if I don't want to, why should I force myself?'"

The learned Professor considers the condition of these people an unmistakable case of epidemic insanity, and advising the Government to take certain steps to prevent it from spreading, concludes his article with the words: "Malevanism is the cry of distress of a sick population, and its prayer for deliverance from drink and for the improvement of education and sanitary conditions."

But if Malevanism is the cry of distress of a sick population and its prayer for deliverance from drink and pernicious social conditions, what a horrifying cry of distress from a sick population and what a prayer to be rescued from drink and false social conditions is this new disease that has broken out in Paris, and with alarming rapidity infected the greater part of the town population of France, and almost the whole governing and civilized well-to-do classes of Russia! And if it is admitted that the mental derangement of the Malevanists is a danger, and that the Government would