Nothing so conduces to good health as the regularity of life without haste and without worry which the rational practice of religion brings in its train. The attitude of mind that a trusting faith in the Almighty fosters is particularly likely to prevent the neurotic symptoms and exaggerations of feelings which are responsible for so much of the modern suffering of mankind. It makes the real pains and aches ever so much more bearable and eliminates those which to a great extent are imaginary. The success of all sorts of curious therapeutic systems which prove after a time to be utterly without beneficial {332} effect on the human body shows how much faith in anything may mean for health and restoration to health, even in the midst of what is supposed to be rather serious illness, and as men are bound to have faith in something and a living faith in a Providence that somehow, even though we may not be able to understand it, cares for men, drawing good even out of evil, can accomplish an immense amount in making men less amenable to suffering even in this world. It would be too bad to reduce religion merely to this status, but this should be one of its benefits. As the Scriptures said, "For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land." {333} INDEX {334} {335} INDEX Abernethy, 169 Abortion, 316 Abstinence from exercise, 114 Accommodation of the eye, 204 Advent, 111 AEschylus, 255 Agnosticism, 30 Aid, mutual, 106 Alcohol, 207 Altruism, 82 Ampere, 15, 18, 38 Aneurysm, 173 Anthony, St., 298 Antonius, St., 130 Apoplexy, 110 Aristotle, 147 Arkwright, 122 Armageddon, 187 Arnold, Matthew, 3, 4, 165 Arteriosclerosis, 112 Asceticism, 151, 155, 198 "Assent, Grammar of", 3 Atrabilious, 320 Atterbury, Bishop, 199 Augustine, St., 2, 11 Austerity, 165 Auto-intoxication, 330 Auto-toxemia, 330 Avalanche, Law of, 87, 273 B Bacchus, 138, 173 Bacon, Francis, 11, 28, 163 Barrett, 214, 224 Bartholomew, 215 Belief in immortality, 291 Bell, Alexander Graham, 78 Benedict, St., 35, 36 Benedictines, longevity, 300 Bernard, Claude, 25 Bernheim, 246 Biliousness, 320 Blind children, 188 "Blue devils", 47, 93, 319 "Blues", 319 Boissarie, Doctor, 252 Bone setter, 248 Botticelli, 19 Boulger, Professor George, 27 Brethren of the Common Life, 276 Breuil, Abbe, 39 Brewster, 15 Bright's disease, 110, 115 Browne, Sir Thomas, 84 Buchner, 28 Burdett, 89, 90 Burke, Thomas, 6 Byron, Lord, 199 C Calderon, 255 Camoens, 259 Campbell, Lord, 152 Cancer, 260 Card playing, 101 Carnival, 128 Carroll, 172, 264 Castelnau, General de, 41 Catherine, St., of Siena, 96, 227 Cave man, 39, 69 {336}