. The illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings : together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... . hat buoy-ant, jubilant, exhilarating, ec-static feeling which is to all our functions whatmotive power is to machinery—sets them off with a rush and a bound. It both makes us , , «.•„_ No. 3.—Health. happy, and causes everything else to increase that happiness. But disease renders us miserable, andturns everything around us into occasion of misery. It both weakensand perverts the interior being. Indeed, health is the q
. The illustrated self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred engravings : together with the chart and character of ... as marked by ... . hat buoy-ant, jubilant, exhilarating, ec-static feeling which is to all our functions whatmotive power is to machinery—sets them off with a rush and a bound. It both makes us , , «.•„_ No. 3.—Health. happy, and causes everything else to increase that happiness. But disease renders us miserable, andturns everything around us into occasion of misery. It both weakensand perverts the interior being. Indeed, health is the quintessenceof every earthly good—disease, of every terrestrial evil. Poor indeedis he, however rich in money, in honors, in office, in everything elsewhatsoever, whose health is poor ; for how can he enjoy his dollars andhonors ? But rich indeed is he who is healthy, however poor in money,for he enjoys whatsoever he has or is. A rich man may, indeed, pur-chase a luxiiriant dinner, but without health does not, can not relinkit; whereas a poor man, with health, enjoys even a dry rich need health to enjoy their riches ; the poor doubly, in. AS AFFECTING MENTALITY. 15 order to prevent becoming poorer. But to be poor and sickly is tbeuttermost of human evil. Nor can the poor afford to be sick ; fortheir health is their all, to themselves and families. Nor should theyallow anything whatsoever to impair it, but make health paramount. Even the very talents of men depend mainly on health. Is not thebrain confessedly the organ of the mind ? Now, what means it, thatthe eye is the organ of vision, but that all iis existing states reciprocatewith its physical conditions ? That the stomach is the organ of diges-tion, but that the nutritive function is vigorous or impaired, in exactcorrespondence with its existing states? That the brain is the organof the mind, but that all ils conditions similarly affect the mentality ?And since all the states of the body and brain act r
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