Such is the question asked and somewhat briefly discussed by Dr. Charles L. Dana in The Forum for September. It is not unlike the question propounded a few years ago, and learnedly discussed in a book—“Is Life worth Living?” the obvious answer to which was that it depended on the liver. “Addison once said,” says Dr. Dana, “that man should take more care for the direction of his life than the preservation of it. We of this century are inclined perhaps not to reverse Addison’s sentence, but to lay much more stress on the question of preservation.” Addison should have shown how a life could have direction without being preserved, but he did not.