236 Natural Salvation. 



In consequence, they enter upon the labor of another day, 

 fagged, unrested — the condition which thousands of our 

 people know so well. 



In time, these cumulative effects of unrelieved fatigue 

 show themselves in depressed function throughout the 

 organism ; the organic harmony is vitiated ; nutrition is 

 permanently impaired ; and a shrunken, deranged condi- 

 tion of the neurons becomes chronic. Pari passu, the 

 personality slackens, and character sinks to lower levels. 

 In fact, it is not too much to say that humanity at pres- 

 ent is composed largely of the chronicly tired. The pro- 

 cess of cell deterioration begins, and the first downward 

 step is taken, when we rise in the morning with a distinct 

 sense of being not yet rested, and enter on the toils and 

 duties of the day still unrefreshed. 



In America, at present, no other one reform is so 

 urgently demanded for the national well-being, as proper, 

 normal rest for the brain cells of the people. After the 

 age of thirty few among us know what natural sleep and 

 sound rest are, or ever will know again. For many have 

 passed the point of brain damage where sound rest can 

 again come to them. Thousands of these hapless ones 

 take refuge in that dreary land of drugged slumber, 

 where chloral, morphia, and the later host of commercial 

 nostrums hold nightly orgies over "the carcase of 

 murdered sleep." These are, indeed, " lost souls " who, 

 like weary Macbeth, will never sleep properly again. 



