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power. " As contradistinguished from the hot- 

 house care of sanitaria, we are realizing more and 

 more that the sufferer must be encouraged to get 

 back into real life, which is the best of all teachers 

 and doctors. Nothing less fruitful will nourish body 

 and soul." 



" Real life " he defines as more satisfying and in- 

 teresting occupation, more recreation or refreshment 

 through art, play, or natural beauty, deeper and more 

 intensive affection; and if a fourth resource, wor- 

 ship, gets into life, so much the better, though it has 

 become today so unfashionable a habit that one 

 must be prepared to shock the modern ear and to 

 violate all the scientific proprieties if one confesses 

 to a belief in it. The interplay of these four inex- 

 orable blessings responsibility, recreation, affec- 

 tion, and through them a glimpse of God is the 

 end of life, and the sole worthy end in my creed, 

 says he; and continues: 



' I came to the belief first from a doctor's point of 

 view and as a result of a search for the essential prin- 

 ciples of healing within a special field. This is the 

 end of all education, all moral training, the food of 

 the soul in health or in disease, needed by all, to 

 feed our own souls as well as to cure and to prevent 

 social ills. This is the vital nourishment without 

 which all material relief soon becomes a farce or a 

 poison, just as medicine in most chronic diseases is a 

 farce or a poison. Every human being, man, 



