a long line of particular tears

There are certain social  conventions Karson Choior customs and alleged requirements, there is a  theologicalbias, a general view of the world. There are conservative  ideas in







regard to our early training, oureducation, marriage, and  occupation in life. Following close upon this, there is a long series  ofanticipations, namely, that we







shall suffer certain children's  diseases, diseases of middle life, andof old age; the thought that we  shall grow old, lose our faculties, and again become







childlike;  whilecrowning all is the fear of death. Then there is and trouble-bearingexpectations, such, for example, as  ideas







associated with certain articles of food, the dread of theeast  wind, the terrors of hot weather, the aches and pains associated with  cold weather, the fear







ofcatching cold if one sits in a draught, the  coming of hay-fever upon the 14th of August in themiddle of the day, and  so on through a long list of fears, dreads,







worriments,  anxieties,anticipations, expectations, pessimisms, morbidities, and the  whole ghostly train of fateful shapeswhich our fellow-men, and  especially







physicians, are ready to help us conjure up, an array  worthyto rank with Bradley's 'unearthly ballet of bloodless categories.'







"Yet this is not all. This vast array is swelled by innumerable  volunteers from daily life--the fearof accident, the possibility of  calamity, the loss of property,







the chance of robbery, of fire, or  theoutbreak of war. And it is not deemed sufficient to fear for  ourselves. When a friend is taken ill,we must forth with fear







the worst  and apprehend death. If one meets with sorrow . . . sympathymeans to  enter into and increase the suffering."[48]







[48] H. W. Dresser: Voices of Freedom, New York, 1899, p. 38.







"Man," to quote another writer, "often has fear stamped upon him before  his entrance into theouter world; he is reared in fear; all his life is  passed in bondage







to fear of disease and death, andthus his whole  mentality becomes cramped, limited, and depressed, and his body follows  itsshrunken pattern and specification . . .







Think of the millions of  sensitive and responsive soulsamong our ancestors who have been under  the dominion of such a perpetual nightmare! Is it notsurprising that







 health exists at all? Nothing but the boundless divine love? exuberance,  and vitality,constantly poured in, even though unconsciously to us,  could in some degree







neutralize such anocean of morbidity."[49]