THE BIOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE. 23 



But surely creative love and wisdom makes the 

 human body, that Garden of the soul, a Paradise 

 watered by a fourfold River of Life, and it is man's 

 daily disobedience to the laws of Life that plunges 

 him into this fearful ANTI-PARADISE, 



Toa-crov evepff A't^eo ovov ovpavos COT' CLTTO ycujjs.* 



But to leave poetry and come to plain prose. Let 

 any one take the trouble to ascertain the effects on the 

 body, and through the body on the temper and dis- 

 position of the drugs in common use, and then say if 

 this is an overdrawn picture. Take a few almost at 

 random. See the uncontrollable irritability which 

 attends the exhibition of iron and quinine, especially 

 when their use is given up for a time, and the work of 

 expulsion begins. Unutterable depression surely 

 follows in the wake, or rather the seductive sleep of 

 Chloral Hydrate. It plunged an accomplished poet 

 and artist into more than Dantean gloom, and thou- 

 sands make their minds unutterably sad by its use. 

 Fusel oil, the cause of delirium tremens and countless 

 suicides, besides all the crimes and misery which follow 

 strong drink. Morphinism, the name lately coined to 

 express a state " of sorrow black and deep/' from even 

 the hypodermic use of morphia, to say nothing of the 



step in the right direction made by the illustrious Sydenham, 

 in attributing lasting or chronic diseases to our own causation ; 

 though he still, not freeing himself entirely from the trammels 

 of his age, attributes acute diseases to the "act of Grod," 

 " Acutos dico, qui ut plurimum DEUM habent authorem, sicut 

 chronici ipsos nos." See Sydenham's Opera Omnia (p. 344). 



* Homer's Iliad (Book viii., 6). Tartaros, in the Iliad, denotes 

 a place (shut in by iron gates and with a brazen floor) "as far 

 below Hades as heaven is from the earth." 



