Do not follow the advice of a politician to a friend whom he was urging to speak on some public question.

"But how can I ?" his friend replied; "I know nothing of the subject, and should therefore have nothing to say." "Oh, you can always get up and deny the facts," was the sardonic reply.
Let me first of all give you my credentials, all the more necessary as my long illness has doubtless made me unknown by name to many of the younger generation, who may therefore question my right to impart facts or make any suggestions at all.

Suffer me, therefore, to recount to you how I have gained my knowledge and what are the sources of my information.
In the first place, I was trained for the work by a medical man--my friend Mr.James Hinton--first in his own branch of the London profession, and a most original thinker.

To him the degradation of women, which most men accept with such blank indifference, was a source of unspeakable distress.

He used to wander about the Haymarket and Piccadilly in London at night, and break his heart over the sights he saw and the tales he heard.