t cure either
mind or body. The man who violates the habits of health cannot patch
his injuries or conceal the ravages of dissipation by mental hygiene.
Here is the great advantage of knowing how to live hygienically, of
observing habits of health, and then concerning ourselves not with
ourselves, but with conditions of living for all those whose health can
be affected by our health, or can affect our health and efficiency.

The most recent practical application of mental hygiene for moral and
physical uplifting is the "moral clinic" or "psychotherapeutic" clinic
established by Emmanuel Church in Boston. This clinic represents the
union of three forces,--religion, medical diagnosis, mental hygiene. As
a result of this alliance it is anticipated that both religion and
medicine will be humanized, socialized, vitalized, made to express more
accurately and more consistently that community consciousness and that
yearning for equal opportunity and equal happiness which constitute the
profoundest religious impulse. No person is treated at this moral
clinic whose trouble is organic or structural. In determining whether
the case belongs to this clinic, expert medical diagnosis is relied
upon rather than the credulity of the patient or the zeal of the
clergyman. Medical scientists of highest repute can consistently
cooeperate, because they recognize two scientific facts: first, that
many troubles are due primarily to mental disorder; and, second, the
greatest asset of the human mind is that something called religion,
which is no less real and potent because peculiar to each individual.
Whatever may be that deepest current of thought and feeling, whatever
that synthetic philosophy, that explanation of being, which guides my
life, it can be of inestimable aid if enlisted in an effort to secure
normal vitality of mind and body.

The controlling motive of the moral clinic has proved infectious. There
is reason to believe that the alliance of medicine and religion has
come to stay, and that the present excitement over psychotherapeutics
will settle down into a scientific utilization of religious motive and
medical knowledge to prevent mental and moral disease. Unwholesome,
morbid, self-centered thought is driven out. A recognition of others'
claims takes its place. Hypnotism, suggestion, and group enthusiasm are
used to their utmost possibilities. The success of the Boston moral
clinic is due to establishing in the mind of the neuras