if one can add or multiply less rapidly, or react less promptly upon certain impressions while under the influence of a small amount of alcohol ? Is a composer able to do a problem in calculus while engaged in cre- ative work on a grand opera? Or was it a sign of spiritual or mental dullness when Newton put his watch into the boiling water and gazed intently at the egg in his hand? Is it not a fact that the intense ap- plication of certain higher faculties temporarily over- powers the lower, merely mechanical psychical func- tions ? That is all that Kraepelin and the others whom the anti-alcoholists invoke, proved when they showed what they called the paralyzing of certain nerve func- tions by certain doses of alcohol. It is characteristic of an intense nature to concentrate oneself on one thing at a time, and even if such concentration reaches the degree of complete so-called absent-mindedness, that is no sign of intellectual or spiritual weakness. Often quite the contrary, as the stories about Newton illustrate. It is the seeking after the life on a higher plane that is one of the impulses creating the desire for alcoholic stimulation, the desire to be lifted above the ordinary cares of life. "One of the impulses," I say, for there are others, which I have pointed out in these columns, chiefly those of a psycho-physiological character rest- ing in the greater enjoyment of physical things, which