Muscles, mind, and morals: or, Hints on the prolongation of lifeLondon, 1882 - 94 sider |
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Side 90 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
Side 90 - Aiid lifts his wilful hand on mischief bent, Or turns the godlike faculty of speech To impious use — by process indirect Declares his due, while he makes known his need.
Side 70 - Oh, blameless Bethel! to relieve thy breast? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Side 88 - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Side 20 - I have troubled your readers, that in my experience I see more ailments arise from want of occupation than from overwork, and, taking the various kinds of nervous and dyspeptic ailments which we are constantly treating, I find at least six due to idleness to one from overwork.
Side 15 - ... holds true only within limits. It does not [necessarily] hold true ... of an industrial establishment devoted principally to the satisfaction of certain strata of society, as for example, bureaucracy, skilled labor, and the army, at the expense of the living standards of the population as a whole. It does not follow as a matter of course that such a state will be militarily 'inefficient.
Side 33 - ... it is not possible to draw a distinct line of demarcation between the so-called primary and the so-called secondary symptoms.