Article August 8, 1901 Issue

An Age of Mental Depression

Westminster Review

It is generally admitted that the disease of mental depression is a very common one at the present time, especially with what are usually called the educated classes.

No doubt in all ages there have been many people who suffered from depression from various causes more or less personal to themselves, but the wide extent of the disease in modern times seems to suggest that there must be some general cause or causes of the phenomena. Mr. Albert Chevalier's well-known song, "Wot's the good of anyfin? Vy, muffin!" expresses a really not uncommon state of mind, and its popularity is probably due to its striking a sympathetic chord in the breasts of the hearers.

The moral and intellectual confusion is naturally most keenly felt by the finest minds. People who live by rule of thumb, or by accepting the conventional ideas of their neighbors, and who never think things out for themselves, are hardly aware of the extent of the collapse of the traditional creed. It is only the intellectual people who are troubled.

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