Observations on the influence of habits and manners, national and domestic, upon the health and organization of the human race : and particularly on the effect of that influence as it relates to the present state of English females, in the higher and middle classes of life / [Ralph Palin].

  • Palin, Ralph.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations on the influence of habits and manners, national and domestic, upon the health and organization of the human race : and particularly on the effect of that influence as it relates to the present state of English females, in the higher and middle classes of life / [Ralph Palin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    usages of countries every where refer, in the for- mation of those modifications, which constitute national taste, and are relative to the different feel- ings and wants experienced under all the various shades of human existence. If we examine the customs of nations, we may discover generally without difficulty the relations they have to climate. These relations appear much more strongly marked in the higher than in the middle latitudes; not only because the action of natural causes is there more powerful, but that the moral resistance also is less. Such relations are the result of the effects o£the natural proper- ties of inorganic bodies, upon the vital properties of living bodies. Every where is felt the influence of the general phenomena of nature upon the pe- culiar phenomena of life; and, in the order of their lives, the inhabitants of all countries conform to those habits which make that influence most favour- able, and render the reciprocal action of those phe- nomena as congenial as possible to the movements of the system. This is the principle which has generally determined the customs of countries, and all that train of moral agency, the effect of which is so great in the improvement of a people. And, if there is an intimate connexion between the manners and morals of nations and the climate; there is one not less intimate between the physical constitution and the national and domestic manners. If the moral temperament be in some sort reflected., b2