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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    than with the reaction of those which are moral and social. When therefore we see, in civilized life, manners and moral causes operating, in so powerful a degree, upon the temperament, as is the case in some cli- mates ; and affecting changes so great in the phy- sical character of nations, we must refer, for the cause, to a correspondent change in that principle of action, which determines the order of those manners. The natural feelings, which, in a rude state of society, govern all the constitutional sym- pathies, are interfered with, in civilized life, by moral feelings, which greatly increase the physical sensibility, and have often an unfavourable effect upon the properties of life. That integrity of or- ganization which distinguishes the life of nature, that energy of the vital principle, which circulates equally in every member, become weakened in pro- portion as those new impressions, derived from moral causes, increase their influence; in proportion, in fact, as the due order of the natural sympathies is interrupted by the irregular excitements of progress sive civilization. It is hence that result not only that varied physiognomy, that striking mobility of fea- ture, which give new beauty and new expression to animated nature, and which are strangers, in great measure, to a more natural state of society; but an almost equal diversity of constitution and tem- perament. We hence obtain the privilege, not al- ways the most enviable one, of stamping upon our