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nutrition, growth, changes, death, and decay ; of the healing ai-t, 

 teaching the nature of evils in the shape of disease, and the means of 

 curing or mitigating them. This science, too, was develoj^ed by work, 

 work, work physical and mental ; its ways were often rugged ; its 

 endeavors misapprehended, opposed, suppressed. And the great men 

 whose names are inscribed upon the roll of its principal promotors will 

 be considered by posterity as benefactors akin to Hercules, removing 

 evils, establishing the good and true. If we cannot now inscribe their 

 names and likenesses among the stars, and transfer them to an Olym- 

 pian abode, yet we can honor them by admiring their works and les- 

 sons, by sharing and continuing their work, by, as it were, living 

 their lives with them over again, and thus prolong their memory foi-- 

 ward while we prolong our own in the inverse direction. We ought 

 to honor them out of gratitude no less than out of the desire to benefit 

 continuously man's estate. Such feelings have been instrumental in 

 the cases of those who described the greatness of your Davy, of your 

 Faraday. Such feelings shall now be the guiding principle in the con- 

 sideration of the life, works, and philosophy of Justus Liebig. But I 

 must beg you to understand that I shall proceed by a severe process, 

 that of analysis, for nothing less than the results of analysis of work 

 done can establish as proved what many feel as a sentiment. You 

 will understand both the censure and the acclamation of what we will 

 call the world ; you will see the necessity for a reform in the pliiloso- 

 phy of many of us ; you Avill see how the life and labor of one man have 

 produced vast applications and industi'ies, improved or created a large 

 commerce, and enhanced or engendered art ; how they have soothed 

 the pain and anguish of hundreds of thousands under the most severe 

 trials of human organization, and how they have left a growing har- 

 vest in the hearts and minds of men all over the world. 



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THE KELATIONS OF SEX TO CEIME.' 



Bt ELY VAN DE WAEKER, M. D. 



SEXUAL cerebration may here and there be seen coming to the 

 surface, amid the complex array of circumstance and causes 

 which affects woman's criminal career. If I am correct in the use of 

 the term, and it surely has the merit of expressing the idea designed 

 to be conveyed by it, we may perceive two forms of sexual mental 

 action, one normal and the other abnormal. Its action in the normal 

 phase may be seen in favoring or obstructing her career in crime, in 

 relation to particular offenses ; while its abnormal manifestations may 

 be perceived in certain crimes, existing as a direct outcome of its pres- 



* Argument continued from Jiinuary Monthly. 



