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