ffset by certain definite gains to the school
children of New York that will result from last night's meeting.
Natural law was abated in part. But I declined certain dishes that
would not agree with me, helped myself sparingly of many dishes,
avoided tobacco and wines, and by a three-mile walk in the open air, a
bath, and a good long night's sleep have almost recovered my right to
talk of the sacredness of natural law.

Nature Back says I should not have gone to this dinner. But I was
compelled to go. I know I am going to others. I cannot do my work
unless I overdraw my current health account. Nature Fore tells me that
effective cooeperation with others will frequently require me to eat at
the dinner hour of others, to retire at others' sleeping time, to wear
what others will approve, to violate natural law. But Nature Fore also
tells me how to build up a health reserve so that I can meet these
emergencies without endangering my health credit.

Nature Back demands "dress reform." Nature Fore tells me that I can
march in step with my contemporaries without either attracting
attention or discrediting and affronting natural law. Passion for the
natural has effected numerous reforms in dress, diet, and social
habits, until commerce provides a natural adaptation of practically
every fashion. With regard to few things is it necessary to-day for any
one who reads magazines to do violence to bodily health for fashion's
sake. We may wear what we will, eat what we prefer, decline what is
unnatural for us, without inviting censure. The debauches of those
unfortunate people who live an unnatural, purposeless existence, affect
such a small number that their laws need not be considered here.
Natural law makes obedience to itself attractive; hence commerce is
rapidly learning to cater to distaste for the unnatural. With few
exceptions, only temporary concessions to unnatural living are required
in order to dress and act conventionally.

Nature Back throws little light upon conditions necessary for modern
labor. It can do nothing but demand the abolition of the factory, the
big store, the tenement, the school. Nature Fore says we cannot abolish
the means of working out the highest forms of cooeperation. But we can
make them compatible with natural living. We can modify conditions so
that earning a livelihood will not compel workers to violate natural
law at any or all times. The greatest need of factory and tenement
reform is for pa