Analyses ol Books. 
[September, 
55 2 
Pleasure and pain, then, in some cases at least, lie on one and 
the same side of the zero-point. Them are further, many pa ts 
of our bodies very capable of experiencing pain, but quit 
incapable of pleasure. When working in their optimum condition 
under normal circumstances we are not conscious o 
existence. On one side of the zero-point there is, to our know 
ledge, nothing. Further, as far as we are capable of tracing, the 
intensity of ° P am is far greater than the utmost -tensity of 
pleasure. What pleasure is as great a departure from the ze - 
point on the one side as is violent neuralgia on the other - But 
very possibly we are questioning propositions which Mr. Hinton 
does not affirm. ... . + r np 
He writes — “ Does this will not exist m those who aie true 
personalities, and not mere pleasure-led creatures, hav y 
not some of this power, the power of accepting, suffering, o 
determining absolutely what shall be ?-a creative power which 
given to each who possesses it, makes him a true persona .lit y, 
distina, and not to be merged in any other— a power whic 
determines the chain of mechanical actions, of material sequences 
—which creates it in the very same way in which it seem 
coming to an end— by that which represented in material term 
is the absorption of energy into an ultimate medium, which re- 
presented in terms of sensation is suffering, but which in itseli 
absolute being, though only to be known by us as a negat.on of 
negations.” 
n Rv T G Dwey, M.D. Read at Meeting of Bristol 
Medico.Chi.mrgi'cal' Society., Reprinted from the “ Bristol 
Medico-Chirurgical Journal.” 
The author of this pamphlet remarks that in our great cities at 
IZ The disposal of the bodies of the dead is becoming, or is 
already one of the most pressing questions of the day. H 
great work which Dr. George Walker-famiharly known as 
fi Churchyard Walker ’’—began and carried through near foity 
vears a J is to do over again. What the old urban grave-yards 
were then the suburban cemeteries are now, or are fast becoming. 
They are being surrounded by the habitations of the living, heir 
IraiLge soaks into the earth and saturates it with the produce 
of putrefaction and with disease-germs, or finding its way into the 
sewers it sends off volatile matter, which, through sinks, baths, 
and water-closets, find access to our houses. Unfortunately, too, 
many of our cemeteries have been placed, as if for this very pui- 
nc/imon eminences. We find here mention of a fadt of which 
the public are certainly not aware. Speaking of the cemeteries 
at Highgate, Kensal Green, and Brompton the author says . 
