8o GENERAL SCIENCE 



Druggists, physicians, and any others licensed to dispense these drugs, 

 are held responsible under heavy penalties for any use of them for 

 other than medical purposes. No sales are permitted for purposes of 

 dissipation on the part of those who have the drug habit. 



Where like sensations are always followed by the same kind of 

 responses, the brain in time gives less and less attention to either the 

 sensations or the responses. There comes about a condition where 

 nerve centres other than those involved in making choices and direct- 

 ing the acts of an individual take care of the whole matter. Indeed, 

 so far may this loss of the will power over these acts have gone that 

 reason and will seem to be unable to regain control over them. The 

 person so far as that particular habit is concerned is a hopeless slave, 

 though at times he may have the greatest desire to break from it. 



GENERAL SCIENCE AND RIGHT LIVING 



Psychology (sl-kol'o-ji) deals with what is known of the 

 activities of the human mind. A better understanding of the 

 conditions for these activities should lead to a better intel- 

 lectual and moral life. It is necessary that the psychologist 

 know very definitely the structure and physiology of the 

 brain and nervous system of the human body, and be well 

 versed in biology. But it is : neither necessary to be a scien- 

 tist, nor to have gone to college, in order to know the condi- 

 tions essential for growth into the best types of manhood 

 and womanhood. 



It is to be kept in mind that those characteristics which 

 distinguish mankind from the brutes are the result of a slow 

 process of human development. Education through schools 

 has to do with this development of intellectual and moral 

 natures in individuals, and for its best results requires time 

 and favorable conditions. While schools are maintained as 

 one of the chief agencies to this end, it must be remembered 

 that a large part of what any one knows and is able to do has 

 been gained outside the schoolroom. 



Influences that very largely shape one's choices and fix 

 one's ideals of life are those of the home and its surroundings 



