Excerpt from Vision and Restraint The malady of the age is immoderation. The modern man is a study in extravagance and excess. In his determination to achieve his ambitions and gratify his desires, he goes, until he is ready to drop. His permanent residence, therefore, is the ragged edge. He ever dwells not far from the bank ruptcies which inevitably overtake all prodi gals. He has failed to master the first secret of right living, namely, self-restraint. Nor will he ever master it, until he changes the habitation of his spirit from the material world to the spiritual; Becoming an inhabit ant of the spiritual world, instead of the ma terial, spiritual values will be sought in place of material, with the result that the rhythm of his life will more and more harmonize with the rhythm of the life of the Eternal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.