But, though insanity is not a common disease in the early years of life, the foundations are often laid for it in this forming period. The intellectual is often cultivated at the expense of the physical, thus inducing that debilitated, and at the same time irritable state of system, which you have seen is one of the prominent causes of insanity. The passions, instead of being curbed by reasonable restraints, are left to run riot. False views of life are permitted, with all the bewitching fascinations which genius and fancy and wit can furnish, to stamp their impress upon the mind, and through it upon the brain during the impressible period of its growth. Luxury too pampers the appetites, and gives to them a supremacy, which debases and impairs alike the physical and the mental powers. When the child therefore becomes the man, it is not strange that the predisposition, thus formed within him by this moral and physical training, should become more and more developed amid the stirring and troublous scenes of active life, till at length, through the agency of some exciting cause, insanity appears as the accumulated result of all these evil influences. Education then, using the word in its widest sense, has much to do with the production of insanity when it is directed by wrong principles; and, on the other hand, it can be made under proper management, to exert a powerful influence in the prevention of this disease. Let me now call the attention of the reader to a few considerations in regard to the forms and the signs of insanity. In some cases the symptoms of this disease are from the first of so marked a character that no one can mistake the nature of the malady. But in other cases its signs are for a long time indistinct, and no period can be accurately fixed upon as marking the commencement of the disease. Such cases are apt to be very obstinate, and the longer they continue without proper treatment, the more difficult is it to effect a cure. And delay is so common on the part of friends in relation to such cases, that many of them, in which an early adoption of the proper course would have resulted in an entire restoration to health, become incurable before anything effectual is done. In order that cases of this character should not be thus neglected, the community need to be enlightened in regard to them.