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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 18, 7 March 1913, Page 7

From the time that primeval man determined to specialise in brain, to live by his wits, instead of size, like the elephant, or speed, like an 1 antelope, the human race has been steadily putting more and more sttain on its nerves, and less and less on its. body; And. on the whole, experience has proved it right. Savages do not suffer much from nervous breakdown. Savages have often bodies which can endure what would kill us. But civilised people contrive to live not merely more comfortably, but-a good deal longer* than savages. Bundles of nerves though we may be, the average span of life, grows steadily longer and longer. After all, though nervous complaints may be popular now, It is pure error to suppose that they were only discovered yesterday. We talk of neurasthenia) and our groat-grandmothers talked of vapours, but the roses by either. name smell much alike. We take the nervous troubles more seriously, but so. we do with all illness. And on the whole the death-rate justifies us. —‘"Telegraph.”