I am not speaking of gymnastics, or of any of those occupations which may be fitly described as playing at work; I mean the genuine toil that fatigues.

No one need go far in search of proofs that this kind of abstemious living is not merely possible, but far less hurtful to health than excess.

Hundreds of instances are known to every one.

This is my first contention.
In the second place, I think that of late years, through various reasons which I need not enter, but among which the above-mentioned laxity of opinion in society and the frequent idealization of the subject in current literature and painting may be mentioned, conjugal infidelity has become more common and is considered less reprehensible.

I am of opinion that this is not right.