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it remains a fact that there is in our midst a 

 strong stream of clean living and clean loving. 

 There is, after all, a large body of men and 

 women of good will, whose whole bent is 

 towards wholesomeness and healthfulness. 

 Again, diseases, dreadful though they be, are 

 not mysterious and fateful, but simply de- 

 rangements of the ordinary functioning of 

 life, of the up-building and down-breaking 

 that continually goes on in health. They are 

 not vengeances inflicted wholly from without, 

 but consequences arising deeply from within, 

 and they are not therefore to be met with 

 mere submission, but with contest for control ; 

 they are not to be endured merely but cured, 

 cured for the race, and at least palliated for 

 the individual. Without this attitude of 

 contest, defiant of the angry gods, and ever 

 re-expressed through the ages in literature 

 from Prometheus on his rock to Henley 

 writing his Infirmary Ballads, and in the 

 medical and surgical arts from Asclepias and 

 Hippocrates to Jenner and Simpson, Lister 

 and Ehrlich, we should never have had any 

 medical science at all. And it is in no small 

 degree to hindrance from converse errors 

 maintained too largely even to this day on 

 one side by moral and religious teachers, as 

 on another by immoralists that is due the 

 slowness of our advances in sexual and 

 psychological medicine. These have now, as 

 of old, to be organised into hygiene hygiene 

 material and physiological, mental arid moral 

 and this is already much in advance of 

 public appreciation and application of it. 

 Just as disease, then, for the physiological 



