Studies in conduct . XXVI. SINS AGAINST HEALTH,. HERE are a good many reasons whichmay help to explain what is, at firstsight, the extraordinary fact thatbodily health is only just coming totake a first place among the objects of a reasonablemans interest. Of course the methods of heal-ing sickness have always attracted a large measureof attention, because downright sickness is dis-abling in a way that is too plain and irresistible tobe overlooked. Everybody will do his best to getrid of pain when it is on him. But the con-ception of health as something much more thanthe mere absence of a pros
Studies in conduct . XXVI. SINS AGAINST HEALTH,. HERE are a good many reasons whichmay help to explain what is, at firstsight, the extraordinary fact thatbodily health is only just coming totake a first place among the objects of a reasonablemans interest. Of course the methods of heal-ing sickness have always attracted a large measureof attention, because downright sickness is dis-abling in a way that is too plain and irresistible tobe overlooked. Everybody will do his best to getrid of pain when it is on him. But the con-ception of health as something much more thanthe mere absence of a prostrating or unmistak-ably disagreeable malady is considerably slowerin making way. When somebody talked abouthealth being the state in which existence itself isfelt to be an enjoyment, in which all simple and Sins against Health. 257 natural pleasures are appreciated, and the littleevery-day anxieties of our business sit lightly uponus/ his definition seemed a mere commonplacetruism. Nobody could reasonably maintain thathealth is anything short
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