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and whatever it is that causes them so much agony?" "No, that would be prejudicial to the cure. You know, or you will find out during your years of practice, that every life has in it something capable of reducing the victim to agitated depression. But the recounting of it only serves to convert that something into a work of art, a wall painting in some remote cave, a monument. In that case, the sufferer becomes the curator and there is no further thought of cure - the patient has succumbed and the disease has become immortal. In that series of consequences, the doctor figures as the meddler, the man whose insatiable curiosity has conferred accidental immortality upon somebody's stupid and ignoble frustration. The patient will always be a jump ahead of you." We were horrified at this declaration of conservatism even though we could not deny it a certain eloquence, and a dramatization presented at one late supper hour brought down the house. The house staff agreed that Northwestern was hopelessly reactionary with re-