FAITH AND MENTAL INSTABILITY
By Theo. B. Hyslop, M.D.
The Tendency for Insanity to increase on Account of the Stress of Life.
That there is a tendency for insanity to
increase on account of the stress of competition
and all the complexities of modern civilisation
few will deny. The burden of taxation upon
the nerve tissues and the drain upon their
stores of energy must necessarily go on increasing
as the uses for the physical mechanism
of the body and limbs diminish and become
replaced by the more complex nervous activities
essential to brain and mental avocations.
The influences of rural and urban life, trades
and occupations, &c., as favouring the occurrence
of insanity, have been dealt with in an
exhaustive manner in various reports, treatises,
and innumerable papers, and the result has
been to apprise us of the fact that the percentage
of individuals who are incapable by
reason of mental perversion or defect from
