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422 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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by so doing * the physical sufferings of our _brothers will be more effectuall of y nine relieved tenths than of them in any ) we other "way in , reality ( inasmuch labor as directl vice is y the
towards cause that great and blessed end , which may God Himself has chosen in His creationin virtue of which the world is a task-field , and
Im-, mortality But while man ' s " day all of the work roads . of Padolon" are simultaneously
multitudinous stormed , it is lines a subj leads ect most of importance directlto the to discover citadel of which the , realm of their of y
Evil . "Where is the central fortress of this seven-walled Esbataun whose demolition will secure our permanent conquest ? in
respects external The moral , conditions wonderfull and as p y hysical regularl analogous diseases propagate . Proof of our vice is country as amp certain le are tha , . other t certain many and
y similar ones generate fevers and cholera . A large , undrained cesspool Febrile is the diseases source arise of contag from it ion as to certainl the district as clouds in which from the it lies sea . , y
and maladies of other characters , though not actively caused by the incurable malaria , assume It is , in vain consequence for the h , ysician more virulent to exhibit types his , medicines and remain to
the wretche . s who are nearly poisoned p every hour by fetid exhalations . The cesspool must be drained , and then the medicines will but the
have effect . The other diseases will indeed still remain , hopefull weltering great source y . in Just the of so mischief centre , where of being there out cities is removed a moral , the , they contag sloug may h ion of into be of ignorance the profli dealt gacy with left ,
tion drunkenness . In vain , and the theft minister , will of incessantl religion y may steam 6 i rea up _. son of rig popula hteous- - " to creatures who breathe every moment an atmosphere of
imness meaning purity . Chastity to the , _unhapxDy temperance beings , purity who , love have , are passed mere words throug without h life such
utterly untaught , and unconscious experimentally of what cities things be may laid mean bare . to Let the li the ht fearful and thoroug centres hl of y ignorance purified , and in then our
we may successfully contend g with , the natural feelings of humanity which will remain . Education is not all : it is very far indeed ,
alas ! from including all the conditions of moral health . But there is this much to be said , that , there can be no health without it ; and lthe
ignorance is the source of vice as certainly and unfailingy as pestilent miasma is the source of disease . the of this
sloug Where h of , despond however and ? , may It is we clear best alread , in attempt the advanced first place purification , in that life it with is not which the
i be we gnorance of can the hop of hi e men hest successfull importance women y to contend to the , y nor community which , after that all we , it should would g
conquer determined . There for good are those or evil whose —the _tohole children lives still whose lie before intellects them are to yet be
capable of that awakening which rarely if ever takes place in later
422 Notices Of Books.
422 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/62/
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