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studies and labours are the right introduction, albeit still too 

 imperfectly developed. If so, are we not renewing the claim for 

 education, beyond most current demands, or even these of most of 

 its special pioneers? — that for "des clartes de tout" made for 

 women by Moliere, after all his ridicule of their acceptance of 

 academic pedantries, now too often being repeated b}' them in our 

 universities. Here, in this too brief initiation of the medical student, 

 is in principle the granting of the claim of Comte for mathematico- 

 physical preliminary instruction, followed by more fully bio-psycho- 

 social education; and so well reinforced in Herbert Spencer's best 

 known master- work, his Education', though its needed sequel. 

 The Study of Sociology, still too much awaits its turn. Yet groups 

 like the Medico-Sociological Societies now forming must surely 

 before long take that fuller action towards this, of which the begin- 

 nings come down to them, all the way from the oath of Hippo- 

 crates. In our outlined discussion of Life's Evils, we have noted 

 that though philanthropists and pedagogues, priesthoods and 

 police have long been dealing with the special evils of poverty, 

 ignorance, vice, and crime respectively, it is with the work and 

 influence of the psychological physician that the more unified treat- 

 ment of these evils is making most progress; and from which all 

 these too separate workers are being influenced towards kindred 

 breadth of outlook, and associated endeavour. If so, here is surely 

 a fresh impulse to medico-social education; and for its needed 

 vacation-courses, and meetings, to which each and all may bring 

 their contribution, and towards fuller co-adjustment of it. 



The individual line of such bio-medical advance — that of training 

 the patient to return to life with better habits and activities and 

 outlook has been long used by psychological phj^sicians; and it is 

 stated with fresh practicality in Dr. Brock's Health and Conduct — 

 since here associated on the educational principle of the 3 H's, 

 heart, hand, and head, from and to fresh interests through nature 

 and occupational activities, to normal life on saner and sounder 

 levels than before. Such psycho-biological and even psycho- 

 biotechnic physicians are thus learning practically to incorporate the 

 best from the mind-curing groups and sects of recent fame ; though 

 they still need more of their socially influencing and organising 

 powers, and of their glowing ardour as well. And these Will come 

 with the fuller realisation, by medico-social leaders and pioneers, 

 of their fuller career of social service now opening. For no longer 

 content with mere abatements, medical and hygienic, of the pains 

 and evils of our industrial age, but discerning its essential error and 

 failure, in subordinating life to machinery, the profession of medicine 

 has now to lead that better social period, incipient at so many 

 points, in which machinery and resources, labour, skill, and science 

 are being turned to the service of life, in its development and evolu- 



