ad, they become so deadened by excess of
enjoyment and indulgence that ordinary pleasure is uninteresting. They
seek unnatural excitement, original methods and unusual activities to
appease the appetite. Then they become blase and constitutional
pessimists.

It's a maddening, nerve racking pace they go. To keep up the gait there
is an incessant battle for wealth, and the struggle wears and weakens
the nervous systems.

Both men and women go the terrific gait. Men and women having this
health-destroying worry, mate and marry and they lay foundations for
deficient progeny that suffers from the sins of the parents.

The phobia is almost universal; it has permeated all classes of society
from highest to lowest.

Excitement, that's the keynote; for the rich there is society and polo
and useless functions and conventions.

Society is a game of cards, not only playing cards for money, but the
card convention of paying calls by leaving pasteboards in lieu of the
old-fashioned visit.

Society is the builder of fourflushers, the generator of
insincerity--falsehood and rottenness.

For the poor, the aping of the rich, in dress the wearers can ill
afford, the picture shows, the cheap theatres, the automobile, bought
with a mortgage on the home.

It's rush, push, excitement at any cost. The great cost which they don't
seem to consider is the cost of the nerves.

We all enter the world with an abundance of nerve energy, and by
conserving that energy we can adapt and adjust our nerve equipment to
keep pace with the progress and evolution of our times.

The way to preserve and conserve nerve equilibrium and power is to rest
and relax the nerves each day.

You may rest them by a change of the thought habit each day, by
relaxation, by sleep, and by suggestions made in this book.

There are few advance danger signals shown by the nervous systems, and
in this there is a marked difference between the nerves and the organic
system.

If you abuse your stomach, head, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys or eyes,
you have distress and pain.

The nervous energy is like a barrel of water; you can draw water from
the faucet at the bottom until you have almost exhausted the contents.

Nature mends ordinary nerve waste each day, like the rains replenish the
cistern.

A reasonable use of your nerve force, like a reasonable use of the
rainwater, means you can maintain a permanent supply.

But you must be reasonable; you must give the ci