Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Too Mach of Everything. [ARTICLE]

Too Mach of Everything.

It is Professor Nordau who says this old world is brain weary. It Is tired out, and, like the Individual human being, it has hysteria, and is suffering all the anguish of nerve exhaustion, with its attendant depression of spirits. The tension of civilization is breaking down the heart and nervous system. Men fall by the way, and almost before they have crossed the threshold of middle life exhibit a decay that should only come at the appointed three score and ten. Shock follows shock in this modern life, and there is no escaping them. It is as though a child had set some complicated machinery in motion and was incapable of stopping it Professor Nordau does not say it, but the secret of thisi failure of civilized humanity lies in having’ too much of everything; too much of pleasure; too much of maddening work; tod much of emotion, which the moderns

now cultivate as if it were another form of genius and a gift from heaven. And there is also too much wealth, too much poverty. If these crimes of clvlization could be abolished man wouldn’t be so fatigued!—New York Commercial Advertiser.