You may object that all this is as much mental as linguisticthat what is proposed will result in as large accessions of general information as of vocabulary.

This would be no more true of a mental than of a physical diet.

Pleasant and quiet schemes have arisen (partly from reading Pyecroft, partly from having felt so much my own deficiencies) for thoroughly industrious study, and for keeping, if possible, externals and mentals in more order.

And it works against your recovery even worse when you are situated so as to substitute these mental for real flirtations.

It must be admitted, however, that utilitarian writers in general have placed the superiority of mental over bodily pleasures chiefly in the greater permanency, safety, uncostliness, &c., of the formerthat is, in their circumstantial advantages rather than in their intrinsic nature.

If civilization sacrifice the physical thus hopelessly to the mental, and barbarism merely sacrifice the mental to the physical, then barbarism is unquestionably the better thing, so far as it goes, because it provides the essential preliminary conditions, and so can afford to wait.