The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell.

  • Newell, Daniel.
Date:
1825
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Credit: The guide to health : designed to promote the health, happiness and longevity of students and all others in sedentary life, especially invalids / by Daniel Newell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    renown? They were lovers of self-denial. Tem- perance is not only one of the fruitful sources of health and longevity, but it ought also to be regarded as the palladium of the other virtues, and of a good temper of mind. It purifies the senses, and gives agility to the body, renders the understanding acute, the thoughts quick, the memory retentive, the motions free and easy. By temperance the soul as disengaged from the matter which confines it, enjoys it- self, and contemplates other objects under the best advantage to perceive and delight in the truth. It is a truth, substantiated by the history of nations, that luxury and effeminacy, by enervat- ing the body and the mind, have effected the decline or the downfall of empires. To these two causes we must attribute the degeneration of the human species, from age to age. If we take a cursory survey of those nations whose rise and fall have astonished the world, we shall see that they were indebted to temper- ance and frugality, for their glory; and that their ruin was achieved by yielding to prodi- gality. So long as the Greeks and Romans observ- ed sobriety, they were the masters of the world; but when luxury presented itself to them, in the fatal booty of the conquered nations, we see the sun of their glorious day set in dark- ness. Shall we be better satisfied, to contemplate, for a moment, some of the vast ruins, which remam as monuments, all around the globe, to