sipation. If France, through wine, has grown 

 temperate, she has grown tame. "New Mi- 

 rabeaus," Carlyle tells us, "one hears not of; 

 the wild kindred has gone out with this, its 

 greatest." This fact, whatever the cause, is 

 typical of great, strong, turbulent men who 

 led the wild life of Mirabeau because they 

 knew nothing better. 



According to Mr. John O. Varian, in the 

 earlier days of Ireland, before the reasons 

 for temperance came to be better under- 

 stood, it was always the strong and active 

 among the young men who were first de- 

 stroyed by alcohol. The impulse to lead 

 carried these into the greatest excesses, with 

 the nervous disintegration and personal de- 

 cay which is the natural result of extreme 

 nerve-stimulation. 



The concentration of the energies of 

 France in the one great city of Paris is again 

 a potent agency in the impoverishment of 

 the blood of the rural districts. All great 

 cities are destroyers of life. Scarcely one 

 would hold its own in population or power, 

 were it not for the young men of the farms. 

 In such destruction, Paris has ever taken 



The 



Human 



Harvest 



Re'versed 

 selection 

 through 

 the rush to 

 cities 



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