the use of alcohol is generally intemperate in other things. Make him, if you can, eat temperately and rationally, and temperance in drink will in most cases, follow naturally. Still, all this is a little aside from the present ques- tion. The person who should be exposed is the one who is not satisfied to bear his own misfortune, his own defective or inferior nature which places him without the ranks of normal men who can eat and drink what they like in moderation and be healthy and enjoy living without fear of excess and consequent injury to themselves. People should understand that, far from indicating a superior moral status, the aver- sion to alcohol is a symptom of physical, moral or mental defectiveness, an inferior, sub-normal nature, 70 Inferiority of the "Antis." not so far out of the normal as to be classed as decid- edly diseased, or degenerate, but nevertheless far enough out of the road of health to be called morbid. One of those who wrote to the scientists who did the work for the Committee of Fifty writes : "Abstinence from fear of excess, argues a defective moral power which should be educated, or else of bodily disease; abstinence from lack of enjoyment, shows defective development of capacity to enjoy." The cowardly way of the ascetic, who fled to the wilderness because