yet been done, a few devices already familiar. But for an extraordinary
reluctance in all quarters to adapt simple and obvious remedies to a
growing evil, the article need never have appeared. It so happens, that
the case principally before the public mind at present, is the deadlock
in the House of Commons; yet, had that stood alone, the author would not
have ventured to meddle with the subject. The difficulty, however, is
widely felt: and the principles here put forward are perfectly general;
being applicable wherever deliberative bodies are numerously constituted
and heavily laden with business.

ABERDEEN, _March_, 1884.




CONTENTS.


I.

COMMON ERRORS ON THE MIND.


Error regarding Mind as a whole--that Mind can be exerted without bodily
expenditure.


Errors with regard to the FEELINGS.

I. Advice to take on cheerfulness.