A very scientific force of hygiene is particularly recommended. Excessive measures of any sort must be avoided for various reasons:
(1) They are antagonistic to the maintenance of a perfect physical equilibrium.
(2) They will inevitably grow to dominate the mind unduly.
When we speak of excesses, we intend to include those undertaken in the way of work no less than those which are the outcome of the search for pleasure.
Nevertheless we will hasten to add that these last are much the more to be feared.
What can be expected, for instance, from a man who has passed a night in debauchery?
Morning finds him a weakling, good for nothing, and incapable of making the slightest effort that calls for energy.
He is lucky, indeed, if his excesses have no disastrous results that will destroy his happiness or his good name.
The fear of complications that may be the outcome of his gross pleasures soon begins to haunt him and to usurp in his mind the place of nobler and more useful impulses.
As to his health, it is hardly necessary for us to insist upon the disorder that such habits must necessarily produce.