Note D — Chapter VI · —SUBJECTIVE REMEDIES.

“In a primitive state of society field sports afford abundant pastimes, our wealthy burghers find indoor amusements, and scholars have ideal hunting grounds of their own; but the large class of our fellow-citizens, to whom reading is a task rather than a pleasure, are reduced to the hard choice between their circenses[7] and their panes[8]. Even the slaves of ancient Rome had their saturnalia, when their masters indulged them in the enjoyment of their accumulated arrears of happiness; but our laborers toil like machines, whose best recreation is a temporary respite from work. Human hearts, however, will not renounce their birthright to happiness; and if joy has departed this life they pursue its shadow in the land of dreams, and try to spice the dry bread of daily drudgery with the sweets of delirium.”—International Review, December, 1880.