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Speaking of intemperance in relation to crime, he states that: 'Brain-workers provide the most hopeless cases of dipsomania. Increased brain-power more brain-work; more brain-exhaustion more nervous desire for a stimulant, more rapid succumbing to the alcoholic habit these are the stages that can be noted everywhere among those who have had more "schooling" than their fathers.
The subject of brain-exhaustion has a very peculiar interest for the public as well as for the professional penman; half the slovenly prose which ordinary men use in their correspondence is due to the bad models set by written-out men, and the agonising exhibitions made by some thousands of public speakers in this devoted and long-suffering land are also due to the purblind weakness of the exhausted man.
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