crimes; if it makes venial offenses appear heavy, and heavy offences light; if it has varied everywhere, it is clear that we must subject it to some rule.” Vices are not rightly punishable by law. They are amenable to education only. Should A. assist B. to indulge in a vice, and A. uses no fraud or coercion, and B. is _compos mentis_, A. is not guilty of a crime, in the proper sense. Suppose A. were a cook, who compounds for B. rich and delicious dishes, and of which B. partakes to such an extent that he sickens and dies, A. is not guilty of a crime. Neither is B.’s indulgence in the strong food or strong drink a crime punishable by law, only a vice amenable to discretion and judgment. Correctly considered, then, a crime is an act which one man, with “malice prepense,” commits upon the person or property of another, without that other’s consent. Crime may be subject to law. A vice, on the other hand, is any act or passion in which a person may indulge himself: malice, hypocrisy, pride, envy, hatred, avarice, ambition, profanity, falsehood, indolence, cowardice, drunkenness, gluttony, tyranny, fanaticism, extravagance, etc., etc. Unless this distinction be recognized by the law, there can be no such thing as individual right, liberty or property, “no such thing as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and co-equal right of another man to the control of his own person and property.” An eminent and respected physician once said to an enlightened audience: “Not a person before me, but has suffered from vices; indeed, that is what we mean by the imperfection of human nature. When we depart from perfection it is a vice. Everybody is guilty of vices. The people before me, forty years old, should not be so old at fifty or sixty. Their teeth are decayed, and they have imperfect digestion. They do not enjoy the full and happy play of all their powers and faculties, and the greater part of this waste comes from vices. There are certain secret vices which cannot be publicly named, which are doing more to break down our vital force, make us prematurely old, and fetter our souls, than all the crimes committed in the country, and the legislature can do nothing to cure them. “Without doubt, gluttony is the most destructive of all our vices. It obtains among all classes, all ages, and both sexes. Eminent medical men, in England and America, declare that strong food can count ten victims, where strong drink counts one. “Tobacco is doing more injury to the minds and bodies of our nation than all the murder, theft, burglary, and arson, and yet the legislature can do nothing to cure the tobacco curse.”