I
trust I have succeeded in satisfying my readers that we dwell in a
climate where work of all kinds demands greater precautions as to health
than is the case abroad. We cannot improve our climate, but it is quite
possible that we have not sufficiently learned to modify the conditions
of labor in accordance with those of the sky under which we live.

No student of the nervous maladies of American men and women will think
I have overdrawn any part of the foregoing sketch. It would have been as
easy, had such a course been proper, to tell the individual stories of
youth, vigorous, eager, making haste to be rich, wrecked and made
unproductive and dependent for years or forever; and of middle age,
unable or unwilling to pause in the career of dollar-getting, crushed to
earth in the hour of fruition, or made powerless to labor longer at any
cost for those who were dearest.

THE END.

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