On Living Sensibly
The series of articles now appearing in this journal under the above heading clearly concerns every member of the om- munity. No one has more than one life on this planet, and no one can afford to make anything but the best of it. Yet how many succeed in doing that ? In both the article by Dr. Andrew Topping in last week's 'Spectator and that by Dr. Meiklejohn in this week's the folly, if not worse, of many current habits in the matter of diet and in the field of self- discipline are exposed. They affect not the individual only, though for the individual health, rightly considered, is a talent to be made the most of, but often enough, through the working of the laws of heredity, his children. That is enough to trans- form flagrant faults in the manner of living from follies to crimes. The ideal for everyone should be a quiet and con- trolled mind in a healthy body, and the general lesson of these articles is that the attainment of that lies much more in the individual's own power than is commonly realised. On detail there may well be differences of opinion. Where, for example, Dr. Meiklejohn, in this week's article, stands for temperance in the use of alcohol, some would stand for complete abstinence. In any case there is full agreement on the evil of a lack of moderation. \But the crux is perhaps more in the mental field, perhaps most of all in the spiritual, as further articles will contend.
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