ciate this, and the sufferer is branded abnormal. The whole difference between the normal and the abnormal is a single degree; and often enough normal people turn abnormal for a short spell, then wake from it to repair what was lost!... It is very hard to befriend an abnormal person; and the hardest sentence a man can utter is the accusing of himself with imaginary faults — so much so that many reach maturity with a feeling, deep in their souls, of their own smallness, and then one of them wonders how those around him fail to see his defi-ciency, when in truth these imag-inings have no substance at all.

There are influences beyond counting that form the first kernel of personality: among them the period of birth, the family's material and cultural condition, and the measure of affection and love in the individual's life; and the mainstays of sound mental growth are liberty and emancipation.

There is one side worthy of our attention, and that is the close bond between body and mind. We invariably find the trace of bodily illness showing in thought, just as illness of the psyche leaves its mark upon the body; and the effects usually appear in the stomach, the intestines, and the skin, then in high blood pressure, "asthma," and headache; likewise sexual abnormality results from upheaval and want of emo-tional stability.

There is a class of people who take pleasure in pain and cling to it; and suicide is the outcome of a chain of psychic illness whose kernel is a hidden feeling of wrong.

We grow angry at times under outside influences, and this is something natural — we would be abnormal if we were unmoved. Let us picture a helpless old man: he faces yesterday, with death

staring at him at every moment; he has no one near or far, and no one has need of his existence, since his repeating of the memo-ries of the past annoys the young, while those who longed to hear such things have vanished from the book of life.

We must value such old men; and some countries set up clubs where the aged may gather for recreation.

Among the social abnormalities is addiction — though the drinking of a glass is a natural thing; and what deepens its abnormality is its weakening of the memory and

then the unsettling of the balance of mind and thought. Before thinking of curing this disease or any other, we must understand that abnormality, in the eyes of its owner, is the best condition that can be reached; so the physi-cian who undertakes his treat-ment must not try to remove the condition altogether, or the result will come out contrary to what he seeks. Individual differences must also be respected alongside the social situation, for every man has states and circumstances by means of which he — he alone and no other! — adjusts his life.

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