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