4. Name the affections causing hemorrhage after the menopause, giving the prognosis in each case. 5 Name the various organs and tissues that may be involved in an attack of pelvic inflammation; giving their relativ importance and possible terminations. SECTION ON SURGERY. Dr. Sam'l Lile, Lynchburg, Va., and Dr. M. R. Allen (Homeopath), Norfolk, Va., Examiners. 1. Name the different forms or classes of gangrene, and give causes of each. 2. Give definition, symptoms, prognosis, prophylaxis and treatment of shock. 3. (a) Differentiate chancre and chancroid, and give treatment of both. (b) Differentiate syphilitic and tubercular osseous lesions. 4. Define lipoma, fibroma, osteoma, myoma, papilloma, adenoma, sarcoma and carcinoma, and classify as to ma lignancy. 5. Give causes and differential diagnosis of concussion and compression, 6. Give causes, symptoms and treatment of cystitis 7 Define phimosis, paraphimosis, orchitis, mastitis and salpingitis. 8. When is resection of elbow indicated? and describe the operation. SECTION ON THERAPEUTICS, Dr. J. E. Warriner, Brook Hill, Va., Examiner. Answer any four blocks. Block 1. (a) What are the chief uses of water internally, and how much should be taken in twenty four hours? (b) Name three drugs excreted by the mammary gland, and which may affect the nursing infant? (c) Give chief foods derived from milk, and state if milk is a complete economic food for adults; and why? (d) What conditions regulate the necessary amount of food? Block 2. (a) Give synonyms of nitroglycerin, and state why it and amyl nitrite are useful in angina pectoris. why? (b) At what stage of cardiac lesions is digitalis useful; and (c) What are some conditions requiring food by rectum? (d) Give full instructions for use of nutrient enemata. Block 3. (a) Give the chemical antidote for the following: Strychnin, opium, corrosiv sublimate, arsenic, nitrate of silver, digitalis, acetate of lead and carbolic acid. (b) Define the following, and give example of each with the dose: Emetic, hydragog purgativ, diurétic, diaphoretic, anaphrodisiac. (c) Give dose of comp. syr. squill, and name its most activ ingredient. aconite. (d) Classify aspidium, podophyllin, salol, nitrous ether, Block 4. (a) What should be the location, and why, of vesi cants, in the treatment of diseases of the eye, of pleurodynia, of abdominal neuralgia? (b) What are the therapeutic indications in the treatment of burns? (c) What is normal saline solution, and what are its therapeutic uses? (d) What therapeutic measures are useful in general anasarca? Block 5. (a) Give therapy of arsenic. (b) In what stage of skin diseases should arsenic be given? (c) Is it safer to use locally, a weak or strong preparation of arsenic; and why? (d) Name the medicinal and dietetic agents to be avoided in chronic diseases of the skin. SECTION ON THERAPEUTICS. Homeopathic Questions. Dr. E. C. Williams (Homeopath), Examiner, Hot Springs, Va. Answer four blocks only. 1. (a) Differentiate between belladonna and mercurius biniodid in a case of tonsilitis. (b) Give the principal uses of baptisia. (c) Give indications for the use of calcarea carbonica in menorrhagia. (d) Mention five remedies of especial use in lithemia. (d) Give the treatment of a case of arsenic poisoning. 8. (a) Differentiate between ipecac and veratrum album in a case of cholera infantum. (b) Give the indications for arsenicum in acute nephritis. (c) What are the principal uses of conium, and to whom is it especially adapted? (d) Mention four remedies of especial use in pleurodynia. 4. (a) What are the principal uses of lilium tigrinum and of magnesia carbonica? (b) Mention four remedies of especial use in pustular eruptions. (c) Differentiate between sepia and pulsatilla in a case of leucorrhea. (d) Give the indications for the use of chelidonium in Jaundice. 5. Give the principal uses of apocynum and of phytolacca. (b) Mention two remedies of especial use in varicose conditions, and give indications for each. (c) In a case of whooping cough, what symptoms would cause you to give belladonna and what ipecac? (d) Give the indications for colocynth in sciatica. SECTION ON MATERIA MEDICA. Homeopathic Questions. Dr. E. C. Williams (Homeopath), Examiner, Hot Springs, Va. Answer four blocks only. 1. (a) Give (1) the mental symptoms of ignatia, and (2) differentiate them from those of pulsatilla. (b) Give four characteristics of iodium. 2. (a) Give the physiological action of digitalis. (b) Describe the stools of rheum and of silica. 3. (a) What is the principal indication for the use of (1) cantharis, (2) apis, (3) antimonium crudum, (4) allium cepa and (5) collinsouía? (b) Differentiate the morning diarrheas of (1) aloes, (2) natrum sulphuricum, (3) podophyllum, and (4) sulfur. 4. (a) Give the physiological action of aconite. (b) Give (1) the eve symptoms of euphrasis, (2) the heart symptoms of convallaria, (3) the laryngeal symptoms of causticum, and (4) the urinary symptoms of berberis. 3. (a) Describe a case of phosphorus poisoning. (b) Give five leading characteristics of (1) nux vomica and (2) sulfur. The Therapy of By-Issues in Phthisis from Dr. May's Recent Work. The following "measures which meet special indications" in the treatment of consumption are given by Dr. Thomas J. Mays in his recently publisht work on "Consumption, Pneumonia, and their Allies": "Persistent dyspepsia is often relieved by suitable special medication. If this depends on too much gastric acidity, as is frequently evidenced by sour eructations, it will be alleviated by administering an alkali like liquor ammonia acetatis in combination with tinctures of quassia, gentian, or serpentaria, an ounce of the former to three ounces of the latter. The addition of one drop of the fluid extract of xanthoxylum to each dose will enhance its efficacy. Sometimes equal parts of the tinctures of gentian, columbo, cinchona compound, and hydrastis canadensis, in teaspoonful doses, before meals, will have a good effect. A grain of hydrastin hydrochlorate is sometimes followed by good results, especially if there exists torpidity of the liver. The combination of acids with the tincture of the chlorid of iron is an excellent tonic when acids are indicated, and when markt anemia is present. If pain exists in the gastric region, the application of a mustard plaster, once or twice a day, over the area is beneficial. "If sleep can not be procured in any other way, narcotics must be administered, and of all these, morphin and codein are preferable. A ten grain suppository of asafetida at bedtime is frequently employed by the author with good effects. If "So soon as the bowels become rebellious, no solid food is to be allowed except thoroly dried toast, but liberal quantities of liquid diet like beef juice, milk, boiled, as well as peptonized, are to be given. The bowels should be flusht out with large quantities of water every day or two. necessary one grain doses of powdered opium must be administered, two or three times a day, by the mouth. Or, what is better, the application of a mustard plaster over the whole abdomen, morning and evening. "If the cough depends on laryngeal embarrassment, the inhalation of watery vapor, impregnated with the compound tincture of benzoin, or the inhalation of the fumes of gum-camphor, or of five or ten drops of chloroform from a handkerchief, or the spraying of the larynx with a solution of cocain hydrochlorate, fifteen to twenty grains to an ounce of water, are very useful methods for allaying laryngeal irritability. Lozenges containing cocain hydrochlorate, sugar, licorice powder and powdered acacia, and allowed to dissolve slowly in the mouth, also have a soothing effect. "Cayenne pepper ranks very high as a stimulant in the cough of phthisis. When phthisis follows the excessiv use of alcohol it is of special value, but under these circumstances it must be given in very large doses, diluted with water. In ordinary cases of cough the tincture is to be given in doses of two to fifteen drops, four times a day, while in that of alcoholic phthisis the author has seen doses of from half to a teaspoonful, given at the same intervals, do a great deal of good. The powder may be used in doses of one eighth to one grain, four times a day, in ordinary cases. Cough may be excited by conges tion or inflammation of the pharyngeal mucous membrane, and by the elongation of the uvula to such an extent that it touches the base of the tongue. Astrin gent gargles of tannic acid, sugar of lead, or the spraying of the pharynx with Dobell's solution, or with a weak solution of cocain, or the excision of the uvula are the local measures which must be resorted to. "Night sweats should always be checkt if possible. A very effectiv measure for the suppression of this drain is sponging the body with dilute aromatic sulfuric acid, quinin and water, in accordance with the following formula: Ꭱ Quinin sulfate. Aromatic sulfuric acid Cologne water. oz. 4 fl. dr. 6 ozs. Sig. Sponge the whole body morning and evening. zinc, given in a capsule in five grain doses "Another useful antihydrotic is oxid of at night. Atropin in ro grain, and picrotoxin in grain doses, are sometimes found of benefit. Another method, which is based on the principle that the sweats are due to exhaustion, is to feed the patient after midnight with fresh beef juice, milk, malted milk, eggnog, or soup. This should always be tried. "Irritable heart is an annoying symptom not always readily subdued. Digitalis, strophanthus, and caffein may be given, but the best measure found by the author is the application of an ice bag directly over the heart, which is kept there from morning to evening. "Dyspnea frequently is a distressing symptom of phthisis, especially in the fibroid variety. Nitroglycerin has been found efficacious. When the dyspnea is very persistent and stubborn, and interferes with sleep, a hypodermic of a quarter of a grain of morphin is very serviceable in relieving it." Cinnamic Acid for Tuberculosis. Professor Landerer, of Stuttgart, has publisht a volume of 300 pages, in which he gives his methods and results in treatment of phthisis with cinnamic acid. His experiments have extended over fifteen years, and have been employed in 240 cases in the sanatorium at Leysin. He believes that cinnamic acid produces an intense phagocytosis, and causes a sclerotic condition of the tissues in the neighborhood of the morbid process, thereby circumscribing it, and that the acid always exercises a germicidal influence upon the bacillus. He has used the cinnamate of sodium in the form of a solution or an emulsion. The strength of the solution varies from 1 to 5 per cent. and the reaction is made neutral or strongly alkalin. The solution before it is employed is filtered, and sterilized by boiling for five minutes. The formula used is as follows: Finely powdered cinnamic acid, grains 7 Oil of sweet almonds... ....minims 150 Yolk of an egg................ .1 Saline solution, 7 per 1,000, enuf This preparation is introduced into the body by intravenous or intramuscular injections. Landerer claims to have had the following results: In 110 cases of pulmonary consumption of different degrees there were fifty-seven cures, twenty six improvements, five unsuccessful cases, and twentytwo deaths. In seventy-two patients suffering from tubercular arthritis, there were fifty-nine cures, eight improvements, two unsuccessful cases, and three deaths. In eighteen cases of glandular tuberculosis, he had seventeen cures and one improvement. In twenty cases suffering from peritoneal tuberculosis, there were sixteen cures, two deaths, and two patients in whom no change was noticed. In five cases of urinary tuberculosis, there were three cures and two deaths. In three cases of tuberculosis of the testicle, one cure. He therefore concludes that his method of treatment is really specific to a great extent.-International Medical Annual, 1901. Danger to Laity. DOCTORS REPUDIATE PROFESSOR ATWATER'S THEORY OF FOOD VALUE FOR ALCOHOL. Testimony That the Text-Books Are Accurate.. The American Medical Association has just held its annual meeting in St. Paul, Minn. During its sessions, the American Medical Temperance Association composed of eminent physicians and teachers in medical colleges members of the American Medical Association, always holds one or more meetings for the special purpose of promoting scientific study and investigation into the action of alcohol in health and disease. The meeting this year shows a great advance in the scientific study of alcohol and its action on the body. In the ten years of its existence its membership has grown to over two hundred, and the number of papers and discussions all of a scientific and technical character are increasing, so that literally this is the most authoritativ organiza tion studying the alcoholic question in this country. Of the ten papers read at the St. Paul meeting, three of them discust Professor Atwater's experiments and conclusions, then past the following resolutions as the unanimous opin ion of the Association: "WHEREAS, the American Medical Temperance Associa tion, the members of which are physicians and medical teachers who have devoted years to the study of alcohol and its effects, and who are conversant with the work done by scientific men the world over to determin the effects of alcohol when given in any quantity, have noted the teaching of Professor W O. Atwater, of Wesleyan University, upon the food and medical value of alcohol as set forth by him in the pages of the influential lay press, be it "Resolved, That this Association utterly repudiates the pro-alcoholic doctrin of the said Professor W. Ó. Atwater as being contrary to the evidence deduced by scientific experimentation, and that his conclusions are unwarranted by the evidence resulting from his own experiments. Be it further "Resolved, That this Association regards the teaching of Professor W. O. Atwater as erroneous, and a source of danger to the laity inasmuch as such teaching contributes towards the increast consumption of alcoholic beverages by giving supposed reason for their safe use." Signed N. S. Davis, M.D., President, Chicago, Ill T. D. Crothers, M.D., Secretary, Hartford, Conn. Two other papers pointed out the evils from the use of cigarets and tobacco on neurotics and young persons. One paper critically reviewed the school-book teachings on alcohol, sustaining their claim to scientific accuracy in nearly all the books used. The address of both the President and Vice-president described the folly of efforts to check disease and degeneracy by ignoring alcohol as one of the activ causes, also the conflict of experience with theory and tradition. The other papers read discust the causes of the popularity of alcohol as a beverage, and its danger in high altitudes; also the substitutes for its use in medicin. The value and reliability of these papers is evident from the fact that eight of the ten authors are activ or emeritus professors in medical colleges. Four of them are medical journalists, two of whom are in activ practise. "THE WORLD is worth six times its 'price. Long may it thrive and continue to do good."-H. W. Rencher, M.D., Scooba, Miss. New Books. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics. A practical exposition of the methods, other than drug giving, useful in the treatment of the sick. Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D., Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Lecturer on Clinical Medicin at the Jefferson Medical College, etc. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. In eleven volumes. Price, $22.00 net. This system is unique in American medical literature, but has the intrinsic merit to be the peer of any competitor. The eleven volumes cover the ground of legitimate treatment outside drug giving; and no judicious physician can afford to ignore the instruction and hints given in this system. The matters taken up are those of which the average physician has the least opportunity of gaining knowledge, since they are neglected by medical schools, medical journals, and by physicians of note, alike. There is a mine of knowledge of healing power plainly elucidated in this system. Each volume covers the subject treated in a thoro manner, without requiring reference to the balance of the series. The writers are by no means confined to the United States; all the foreign authors of eminence along such lines have been conscripted. The system will be uniform in size, type, color of binding, and general mechanical excellence. With the blue cloth binding and handsome gold titles, the system will grace any library, however pretentious; while it will head the more modest libraries of the country physician with encyclopedic knowledge of extra medicinal resources in the healing art. Illustrations are used, but no money has been expended senselessly; you find the illustrations plain and satisfactory, but a little rough. Such a system illustrated by artists would have cost $100.00. We admire the plan we commend the execution; we are convinced of its value to the general practitioner; we congratulate editor and publisher upon the two volumes which have now appeared. We have not often had the opportunity of reviewing the first volumes of any system which we have deemed worthy of such hearty commendation as we accord this issue. The two volumes issued support our opinion; the prospectus covering the ground of the volumes to be issued convince us that every doctor should have this entire system. Let the practitioner study his works on therapeutics, and before prescribing drugs, read his references in this system. Vols. I and II take up Electrotherapy; Vols. III and IV will deal with Climatology and Health Resorts; Vol. V will consider Prophylaxis and Hygiene; Vol. VI will cover Alimentary Therapeutics; Vol. VII considers Mechanotherapy; Vol. VIII treats upon Mental Therapeutics, Rest and Suggestion; Vol. IX covers the ground of Hydrotherapy, Thermotherapy, and Baths; Vol. X handles Pneumotherapy and Inhalation; Vol. XI will consider Serotherapy, Organotherapy, Blood-letting, etc., with a digest and index which will complete the system. We assure our readers that the practitioner who seeks knowledge outside drug giving will find no better work or system. Only the complete set is sold, owing to the extremely low price at which the system is offered. The first two volumes are now ready, and the others will be sent to subscribers as soon as ready. We will review each briefly as it This system will be a necessity to every well appointed library.-A. L. R. appears. Practical surgery: A work for the general practitioner. By Nicholas Senn, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Surgery, Rush Medical College, Chicago. Handsome octavo volume of 1133 with 650 illustrations, many in colors. Philadelphia and London; W. B. Saunders & Co., 1901. Cloth, $6.00 net. This is Dr. Senn's greatest work. It represents the practical operative experience of the author for the last twenty-five years. Familiar with the needs of the general practitioner as a surgeon, the author has aimed to simplify and lighten his often trying work by a full discussion of those subjects that come within the legitimate sphere of the daily routine work of every practising physician. Special attention is paid to emergency surgery. Shock, hemorrhage and wound treatment are fully considered. The section on Military Surgery is based on the author's experience as chief of the operating staff in the field during the Spanish-American War, and on his observations during the GrecoTurkish War. Intestinal Surgery is given a prominent place, and the consideration of this subject is the result of the clinical experience of the author as surgeon and teacher of surgery for a quarter of a century. Over 300 pages are devoted to fractures and dislocations. Field surgery is, at times, not unlike country surgery; and Dr. Senn appreciates what operating with deficient equipment and with ill-trained assistants means. He knows what the general practitioner needs, and treats fully on such topics, while he gives little space to such operations as no ordinary surgeon would ever tackle except in direst need. The treatment of wounded arteries by antiseptic compresses will be found interesting to the practitioner who has been taught to suture every wound of arteries. Anesthesia has 42 pages. Numerous valuable cuts from x-ray work illustrate various diseases, accidents, and bone injuries. This is one of the best books on surgery for the general practitioner which has appeared; it does not attempt to be an encyclopedia on surgery, but only aims to touch upon the more common and simple, and emergency surgical work.-A. L. R. A Text-Book of the Practise of Medicin. By Dr. Herman Eichhorst, Professor of Special Pathology and Therapeutics and Director of the Medical Clinic in the University of Zurich. Translated and edited by Augustus A. Eshner, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicin in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. Two octavo volumes of over 600 pages each; over 150 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1901. Price per set: Cloth, $6.00 net. The Germans lead the world in internal medi cin, and among all German clinicians no name is more renowned than that of the author of this work. Dr. Eichhorst stands to-day among the most eminent authorities of the world. The book is a new one, but on its publication it sprang into immediate popularity. It is practically a condenst edition of the author's great work on Special Pathology and Therapeutics, and it forms not only an ideal text-book for students, but a practical guide of unusual value to the practising physician. The fullest and most careful consideration has been given to treatment, and prescriptions are numerous and well selected; this feature will be appreciated by those who can buy but few books. The cuts are few, and the execution poor; but each makes plain what is to be illustrated, and when one buys a work on practise he is not hunting a picture book. The size of each volume is convenient. The indexes are perfectly arranged. All diseases are reported up to the latest knowledge on symptomatology, pathology, and treatment. Few works on medicin have such completeness of every minute detail. It is an ideal work for practitioner or student, and will rapidly win favor with all classes of practitioners because it is complete enuf for the specialist, and concise enuf for the country doctor. The space devoted to various diseases has been much more judiciously arranged than in most other works. Rare and minor cases are not allowed to monopolize the main body of the work; but the every day practitioner's needs have most consideration. The mechanical execution is up to the Saunders standard, and the text could not be improved upon. It is complete without being ponderous, and exact without being redundant.-A. L. R. SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES. Atlas and Epitome of Obstetric Diagnosis and Treatment. By Dr. O. Shaeffer, of Heidelberg. From the Second Revised German Edition. Edited by J. Clifton Edgar, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery, Cornell University Medical School. With 122 colored figures on 56 plates, 38 other illustrations, and 317 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1901. Cloth, $3.00 net. This book treats particularly of obstetric operations. In this new edition both text and illustrations have been subjected to a thoro revision. Most of the colored plates are new, and illustrate the modern improvements in technique as well as a vast amount of new clinical material. This is a companion book to "Labor and Operativ Obstetrics" by the same author, and we know of no work which so well illustrates the various obstetrical manipulations and conditions, as do these two. There are many cuts which have never been publisht before, and are of great value. Possibly an atlas on obstetrics is needed by the general practitioner above all other illustrated works; one will find no better than is shown by these two books. Either book is complete in itself; but references, and the impossibility of completely separating the various phases of the obstetrical condition, impel us to mention both. We commend both books. In fact, Saunder's Hand Atlases are nearer a post graduate course of clinics than many general practitioners can ever hope to see. This book and its companion are among the best of the series.-A. L. R. Atlas and Epitome of Labor and Operativ Obstetrics. By Dr. O. Shaeffer, of Heidelberg. From the Fifth Revised German Edi tion. Edited by J. Clifton Edgar, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery, Cornell University Medical School. With 14 lithographie plates, in colors, and 139 other illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 101. Cloth $2.00 net. As The author has added to the multitude of obstetric subjects already shown by illustration, many accurate representations of manipulations and conditions never before clearly shown. a guide in the perusal of text-books and as a volume of rea ly reference, this book will prove invaluable. The plates are superb examples of the lithographer's skill, and the plan of folding sheets of illustrations is a distinct advantage in that the various steps of an operation are seen at one time. The plates illustrating the manual extraction of the placenta, and placenta previa, are the best we have ever seen. It is a com panion work to the Atlas of Obstetric Diagnosis and Treatment and many references are made to this work. With these two volumes, the practitioner may feel that he has all that illustrations can teach in the obstetric art.-A. L. R. Atlas and Epitome of the Nervous System and its Diseases. By Professor Dr. Chr. Jakob, of Erlangen. From the Second Revised German Edition. Edited by Edward D. Fisher, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, University and Bellevue Medical College, New York. With 3 plates and copious text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1901, Cloth, $5.50 net. In this Atlas the author has protrayed an instructiv section of medicin which is usually extremely difficult of mastery by students and practitioners. This work will be of great value to the physician. The matter is divided into Anatomy, Pathology, and Description of Diseases of the Nervous System. The plates illustrate these divisions most completely. The book is comprehensiv and practical. Its illustrations are generally clear and distinct, and many of them are superb examples of art. We have never seen the brain so well and completely illustrated. The manakin plan is used in some cases to illustrate the various layers; this gives a much clearer idea than if several plates were used. While treatment is necessarily condenst, the owner of this book has a fair library on the therapeutics of the nervous system. This subject is neglected by most practitioners, and we know of no work of moderate cost on such special line so well calculated to prod a doctor to his duty.-A. L. R. The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety issues in July a symposium of papers read before medical societies thruout the world on the physiological and pathological action of alcohol. The drug is fully censidered in the light of a medicin and a beverage. Such a compilation is of interest to every physician. It may be obtained by mailing 75 cents to Dr. T. D. Crothers, Hartford, Conn. The Northern Pacific Railroad issues an artistic pamphlet entitled "Wonderland, 1901." It has many views of historic and artistic merit. It is only in part an advertisement of their line. It is of general interest to the profession, and is well worth sending for. It is obtainable by addressing Chas. S. Fee, St. Paul, Minn., and inclosing 6 cents in stamps. Our Monthly Talk. I cheerfully publish the following, which opens up many interesting lines of thought. The Doctor objected to or criticized my "Monthly Talks." I answered his letter, which lead to this rather lengthy, but interesting reply: DR. C. F. TAYLOR-I have received your letter and thought to answer it with a short article, which you can read and then throw it into the waste basket, or print it in your wideawake journal, as you please. It seems that the gist of your theory on Economics tends to the Co-operativ System vs. Individualism. Now I am a free thinker; and take as a basis of my thought respecting the welfare of the from what he has been, to what he may be. entire human family, the line of man's evolution What system, or what conditions apply to promoting the rise and upward movement of the whole human race? A study along this line no doubt has caused you to take up your argument against individualism. Now, while I am willing to admit that many errors grow out of any law that makes all men free and equal, I certainly think with our forefathers that it is the greatest blessing that has ever befallen to human kind. Why? It allows every man full and complete latitude for the exercise of all the powers within him; but we may expect that there will be just as great a diversity in the happiness and welfare among men under this law, as there are differences in their intellectual abilities. We cannot expect a stupid man to know or acquire as much as a more intellectual man. All men have such minds as they have, and their capabilities are held to its sphere. Give a man who never earned a dollar a fortune and he will not realize its benefits. Divide the wealth of the Nation equally among its people and how long will it be thus disseminated? Pass a law that a man shall just own so much, or do so much, and you bridle his energies; you smother his aspirations and force him below mediocrity. Suppose he does accumulate a million-it only shows his ability to rise above some others in the getting of money; every man is free to do the same; the millionaire is still a man; they have not forgotten the race to which they belong, as is witnest by such men as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and a host of others. Make every man free, give him a right to throw out the tentacles of his Individualism, if you want to see the whole race rising beautifully from a lower to a higher state. It inspires him to seek an education; it inspires the parents to push their children out into the arena, where they can have a hand to hand fight with the world. Individualism makes an Edison, a Tesla and the renowned men of all branches of science. Of course we may expect some things wrong to come up, some injustice to rest here and there; but this is only a blasted limb on the tree of progress. Justice can't be meted out on every occasion; if such was true we would have a heaven here on earth-harmony among men. This is what we are striving for, and individualism, with all the facilities of man's mind awak |