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"higher life" will be the rule instead of the rare ex- ception, as it unfortunately is now let us have all these things, and then we may, as Rabbi Fineshriber says, have a barrel of liquor resting on every corner, and we may be sure, while we shall probably continue to enjoy a glass of wine or beer, there will be no drunkenness or gluttony, no crime or insanity, no pau- perism or vice. For by that time all the defectives will have been eliminated from the race and we shall all know only perfect bliss. In the meantime, however, let us work and wait. Let us educate ourselves and our children, not to become mere drudges to the ambition for wealth or power, but to recognize the greater and better things in life the higher life. Let us recognize that virtue requires free- dom, that the absence of crime in the prison house 11 The Rule of "Not Too Much." is not the result of virtue, that morality is the child of happiness, that temperance is the product of plenty and of freedom to enjoy, not of scarcity and absti- nence, that there is not only no harm, but great posi- tive good in the temperate joy of living and the mod- erate use of the good things of the world, that joy is the greatest health tonic as well as the greatest moral uplifter, and that it is not only folly but moral degra- dation to seek to put us all into a hospital because there