method of these two committees, which are a part of
the same endeavor.

It is only upon the basis of such intensive study
and the facts elicited, that society can learn the
dread lesson of its own accountability. Only when
the social and economic causes of this scourge are
known, can the first preventive steps against it be
taken. It is the immense pathos of all the noble work
among personal victims of this disorder, that so-
ciety furnishes the supply faster than individuals can
be saved. To have begun this task in a spirit and by
a method which shall slowly educate us into some
humility before the evil, and into some real power
over its causes, must stand to the credit of Baldwin's
Committee and that of its successor. ¹

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