_Overwork and Worry_.--The miseries of "overwork," pure and simple, are few and comparatively insignificant....The natural safeguards are so well fitted for their task that neither body nor mind is exposed to the peril of serious exhaustion so long as their functions are duly performed. Overwork is _impossible_ so long as the effort made is natural....There is then no excuse for idleness in the pretense of possible injury. If insane asylums were searched for the victims of "overwork," they would nearly all be found to have fallen a prey to "worry," or to the degeneracy which results from lack of purpose in life, and of steady employment ....The cause or condition which most commonly exposes the reserve of mental energy to loss and injury is worry. When a strong and active mind breaks down suddenly in the midst of business, it is usually worn out by this cause rather than by the other....Work in the teeth of worry is fraught with peril. The unhappy victim is ever on the verge of a catastrophe; if he escape, the marvel is not at his strength of intellect so much as at his good fortune. Worry is disorder, however induced, and disorderly work is abhorred by the laws of nature, which leave it wholly without remedy. The pernicious system of _Cram_ slays its thousands, because uneducated, undeveloped, inelastic intellects are burdened and strained with information adroitly deposited in the memory,--as an expert valet packs a portmanteau, with the articles likely to be first wanted on the top. _Desultory occupation_, mere play with objects of which the true interest is not appreciated, ruins a still larger number. But _worry_, that bane of brain work and mental energy, counts its victims by tens of thousands.--DR. J. MORTIMER GRANVILLE, _in "Worry," Nineteenth Century_.