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I thank you for your letter of January 5th, with the copy of your REVIEW enclosed. The question you discuss is of great importance and as you say naturally divides itself in the problem of develop- ment of individual character and of creating the legislation of environment calculated to encourage such development. What you have written about the subject of poverty and crime, etc., strikes me as reasonable, and I have no doubt we might take lessons from conditions which prevail in Europe. Thanking you again for your letter, I am, Most sincerely yours, THOS. F. GAILOR, Bishop of Tennessee. Intemperance in Eating as a Source of Poverty and Crime. I want to take up some of the points in regard to which the eminent gentlemen differ with me. President Eliot's statement that "over-eating does not cause as much crime as over-drinking" seems to me somewhat too categorical. I would rather take Professor Farnam's version, who says that "inasmuch as the effects of this (bad food) are much more difficult to trace than those of alcohol, I hardly think it pos- sible to secure any statistics on the subject, and I should think it very unsafe to make numerical com- parisons." That is practically what I said in the Jan-

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