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origo y of their several maladies; and there can be no 

 doubt, topographically regarded, all evidence, anatomical, 

 histological, clinical, and self-introspective, points to this 

 somewhat indefinite central and related cortical region 

 par excellence as being the scene of the main part of 

 focussed or concentrated mental and moral activity, and 

 the cerebral region above all on which fall the effects 

 of the sustained strain and worry which the civilisation of 

 the present time has so much accentuated in incidence 

 and intensified in virulence of effect, as witness the 

 records of our daily press, and its teeming rehearsals of 

 tragic incident and criminal occurrence. 



Moreover, this is the cerebral region in which moral 

 culpability is recorded with automatic regularity and self- 

 searching intensity on the truth recording pages of memory 

 and conscience, and where a foretaste thus is experienced 

 of personal accountableness for crime and individual re- 

 sponsibility for the use of all the psychological and moral 

 powers with which every human creature is endowed to 

 a greater or lesser degree, and for the proper exercise of 

 which both the material and immaterial parts of that 

 creature are necessarily jointly punished or rewarded during 

 the present state of being, besides posterity, even to " the 

 third and fourth generation." 



The psychological, or immaterial, part of man must 

 necessarily conform to the texture and quality of that part 

 of his material organism set apart for its accommodation, 

 growth, and evolution, and must be coloured and, so to 

 speak, finished according to the inevitable law of pro- 

 duction expressed in the words, like produces like ; but a 

 reservation must be made to the effect that every member 

 of the human race, in spite of environment, can raise him 

 or herself, by the exercise of will power and the cultiva- 

 tion of mental and bodily hygiene and tone, to a higher 

 and better state of personal morale and physique than he 

 or she was born in, and that, given a succession of such 

 demonstrable occurrences, the race, as well as the indi- 

 vidual, will ultimately correspondingly rise in the scale of 

 civilisation. This, in fact, constitutes the raison d'etre of 

 all effort, individual and collective, for the use of every 

 influence which can be brought to bear on the onward and 



