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a comparatively short time that the pendulum has extreme sensualism of the ancient Graeco-Roman the one of three centuries ago, whose fault in this 97 The Rule of "Not Too Much:' there is danger that it may, if the present day repre- begun to swing back again, and let us hope it will not tude of hostility to rational enjoyment. It is only regard to the "joy of living," was justified and, in the evolution of a higher ideal, quite necessary. The me- renegade and worked through into the broad daylight wrong to enjoy life rationally and, of course, temper- dieval spirit represented a violent revolt against the swing back too far beyond the perpendicular, though sentatives of the medieval spirit continue their atti- denouncing as of the flesh and the devil everything Historically, the attitude of medieval Europe in us. For he represents the unreconstructed Puritan, world and, as usual, those who thus revolted went far through excess. We have outgrown the zeal of the that savored of the "joy of living." It is only within Evolution of the Highest Ideal of Living. beyond the limits of reason in the opposite direction, fear of moral lapse, and without fear of degradation ately, that we can look upon the joy of living without of late that we are beginning to believe that it is not direction Roosevelt has pointed out so tersely.

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