On Tædium Vitæ

have happened since that period invalidate my conclusions? I think not; and all that I then affirmed about the frequency of insanity in civilized countries, I may with more reason repeat concerning ennui. The earliest description that we have of this moral malady is that given by Seneca, and is contained in a letter to his friend Seranus. He says? " The evil which torments us springs, not from the place we live in, but abides within us; we are too weak to bear with anything, we are unable to endure