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private. His work is truly satanic. E. H. Harriman gives much money and time to a boys' club in New York which was recently described in the Chicago Record-Herald by Wm. E. Curtis. The manager of the club expressed his opinion that recreation was the most important element in form- 127 The Rule of "Not Too Much." ing character, which is putting in a little different form what I endeavored to state above. Temperance Especially is a Product of the Evolu- tion of Higher Culture. Temperance is that virtue above all others to which all this applies most pointedly. It is the virtue typical of civilized man, the man who has acquired comfort and ease, as compared with the barbarian. Intemper- ance is the typical besetting sin of the barbarian and the savage. The heroes of the Homeric poems were wonderful eaters and drinkers, but the Greek of the classical period ate temperately, especially of meat, and drank much less than his ancestors. Thor, the ideal of the northern Teuton, on one occasion ate all that was intended for an 'entire wedding feast, and another time ate two whole oxen at one sitting, wash- ing down the repast with generous quantities of ale, and so scared his host that next day they went out and caught two whales for dinner. It is not so very long

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