have been wrought through the daily process of things un- be suppressed by law. Is a good thing suggested? Then the results of slow, silent, invisible causes. but there is no conception of those vast changes which of curing has been in operation. But this large fact and has shown a marked decrease in drinking in the United the general drift of things towards better and higher Progress of Temperance. sented as tremendous eaters, it was one of the at- can benefits be achieved. Is an evil shown? Then it must The improvement has slowly arisen, along with other so- cial improvements, from natural causes. Nature's power other large facts having like implications are ignored by is a manufacture and not an evolution vitiates political Small changes wrought by officials are clearly conceived, our agitators. They cannot be made to recognize the pro- myriadfold ways. Undeveloped brains cannot recognize conditions. The heroes of ancient Greece were repre- The Committee of Fifty through its Sub-Committee ! cess of evolution resulting from men's daily activities, though 24 on the Physiological Aspects of the Liquor Problem directed by authority. And thus the notion that a society let it be compassed by law. facts forced on them from morning till night show this in thinking at large, leading to the belief that only by coercion States, even within a few generations. It is, as I say,