_Alton Locke_, chap. vii. Temptations of Temperament. October 15. A man of intense sensibilities, and therefore capable, as is but too notorious, of great crimes as well as of great virtues. _Sermons on David_. The more delicate and graceful the organisation, the more noble and earnest the nature, the more certain it is, I fear, if neglected, to go astray. _Lecture on Thrift_. 1869. Egotism of Melancholy. October 16. Morbid melancholy results from subjectivity of mind. The self-contemplating mind, if it be a conscientious and feeling one, must be dissatisfied with what it sees within. Then it begins unconsciously to flatter itself with the idea that it is not the "_moi_" but the "_non moi_," the world around, which is evil. Hence comes Manichaeism, Asceticism, and that morbid tone of mind which is so accustomed to look for sorrow that it finds it even in joy--because it will not confess to itself that sorrow belongs to _sin_, and that sin belongs to _self_; and therefore it vents its dissatisfaction on God's earth, and not on itself in repentance and humiliation. The world looks dark. Shall we therefore be dark too? Is it not our business to bring it back to light and joy? _MS. Letter_. 1843. Poetry of Doubt. October 17. The "poetry of doubt" of these days, however pretty, would stand us in little stead if we were threatened by a second Armada. _Miscellanies_. 1859. Work of the Physician. October 18. The question which is forcing itself more and more on the minds of scientific men is not how many diseases _are_, but how few are _not_, the consequences of men's ignorance, barbarism, folly, self-indulgence. The medical man is felt more and more to be necessary in health as he is in sickness, to be the fellow-workman not merely of the clergyman, but of the social reformer, the political economist, and the statesman; and the first object of his science to be prevention, and not cure. _National Sermons_. 1851. Love Many-sided. October 19. There are many sides to love--admiration, reverence, gratitude, pity, affection; they are all different shapes of that one great spirit of love--the only feeling which will bind a man to do good, not once in a way but habitually. _National Sermons_. 1851. The only Path to Light. October 20.