The Philosopher's Mite to the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Date:
[1851?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Philosopher's Mite to the Great Exhibition of 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them; while a dog or a pig, a sheep or a cow, under¬ goes the strictest examination of the veterinary officer of the docks. State Hygeia is, however, yet in its infancy, and demands every indulgence. The happiest omen for the future well-working of its machinery may be accepted in the very judicious appointment of its first chairman,* a nobleman who, at his majority, stood conspicuously forward as the assertor of public morals, and first courageously un¬ furled his ducal banner as the opponent of lordly vice, disdaining the trammels of fashionable dissipation. May the throne never lack nobles of equal dignity and moral courage! Such men are not merely the pillars of the State, they are the best guarantee for the security of a throne, and for the duration of the liberties of a people. There is talent enough at Gwydyr House to enable the Board to anticipate evils and to provide the means of prevention. It is an sedilian duty, which, under the Caesars, was ever recognised as necessary to be attended to during unusual inpourings of population ; and the free admission to the public baths conceded at Rome furnishes a hint for modern policy. In the same spirit, not only as an act of national generosity, but as a stroke of sound policy, all public gardens, zoo¬ logical, horticultural, and botanical, should be gratui¬ tously opened to the visitors, under arrangements of your Committee; thus furnishing supplementary lungs to the increased population, and insuring a daily distribution of the masses. We are obliged * Health of towns.