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ABOUT PEOPLE.

part of morality with which we are now concerned is overlooked in most homes where only it properly belongs. Neither this generation nor the next may witness any palpable improvement from such teaching, but the children of those who themselves have been well taught could become unfamiliar with evil because accustomed to a higher morality.

Also such thorough search into the causes of evil is demanded that, the causes being known, their annihilation may be effected. These causes have been divided into the "natural and accidental." Under the first are included peculiarities of disposition, like vanity, indolence, and grossness of character. Granted that these are peculiarities, perhaps even inherited ones, they are dependent on the will for cultivation or partial extermination, and upon the absorption of the individual in voluntary or compelled labor. The moral and intellectual tone affects the physique; and full employment in one direction negatives undue

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