and tear of nervous habit will throw the intellectual life out of use.

One frequently meets people who have reached middle life without even acquiring a vocation, although they possess good minds and are capable of highly efficient service. Sometimes this is due to the fact that necessity never compelled them to work for a livelihood, to do things "on time," or in any way break from the life of self-gratifying desire. Again, it is traceable in part to a negative goodness that has never been tested by the severer experiences of life. In the absence of these maturing experiences, such a one usually remains youthfully innocent. The temperamental interest calls for wide acquaintance with the world, for thorough knowledge made possible through excellent intellectual training. Undeveloped in these directions, such a person moves in a small sphere, lacking in initiatives, dependent on others, even when in the presence of desired objects which like prominently displayed signs escape inattentive eyes. Hence the intellectuality which might have been productive is centred upon the inner life, the preservation in minute detail of bodily welfare and all that pertains to the emotions. Such a person is usually obstinate, full of prejudices, and in later life is given to pettiness of various sorts. The moral in such cases is not merely intellectual, but points to the imperative necessity of