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ing the drink-problem, a body of facts can be collected which in any degree represents the truth as it is now understood by students of physical and social life, then while such facts are not likely to satisfy all who are already committed to special methods of reform! they may provide a foundation for more rational and comprehensive measures. The cause of temperance has been much ob- structed by intemperate speech and exaggerated statement, and has suffered much through dissensions among those who 27 The Rule of "Not Too Much." should have been allies. There is much to fear from ex- cess of drink, but there is also much to fear from ex- cessive statements which experience soon discovers to be unsupported by facts. An investigation, therefore, which disclaims didactic intention, may not be without didactic results. To affirm, for instance, as is done by the report of the Physiological Sub-committee, that the limit of ju- dicious use of alcohol as a beverage is : (a) A single glass of wine per day; (b) For persons of middle age or over; (c) As a sedative, at the end of the day; may appear to those accustomed to inflammatory appeals a diluted form of temperance argument, but to other minds it may appear a more convincing and commanding statement than to teach that a single glass of beer is a step to a drunkard's grave. To point out, as is done by the Legislative Sub-committee, that "it cannot be positively affirmed that any kind of liquor