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384: INSANITY, PAST ANT> PRESENT.
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accompanies elevation—greed good is eyer attended by great evil , r The same bells which ring out joyous peals to celebrate a victory
toll requiems over the slain . The abundant harvest ; while scatter- , ing plenty around , yet produces distress among those whose
prosperity depends on the high price , and consequently the scarcity of corn . The perfection of our manufactures does noib prevent the
misery of thousands , toiling at unwholesome trades to satisfy the refined tastes and requirements of the age . Therefore let us not
boast of any civilization which affects only a part , not the mass , of the population : until progress is so complete that the whole social
machine moves in exact harmony , we must not cherish the idea that true civilization is attained . An individual in himself is an
aggregate of society , in him we see depicted in miniature the charac- teristics of human kind ; and experience proveswhat Revelation ;
teaches , that man has suffered declension , and that , the sole object , of his present existence is to recover a lost perfection .
When it pleased God to frame this world to be the dwelling place of man , He ordained laws for its government and
preservation ; and at the dawn of that day , when man first drew into his nostrils the breath of life , became a living soul , and walked in
the garden of Eden , his happiness only equalled by his innocency , God acknowledged the perfection of the completed creation , and
" Behold , it was very good . " Though man fell , nevertheless the not law remained , and the inequality of produced by sin was occasioned ,
by the corruption the law but of the individual ; as sin caused and causes spiritual declension , so physical suffering is the sign of moral degradation . There is a meaning and a deep one in
the permission of evil to affect man . Thus , insanity , in common with other diseasesis always the consequence of defection . The
nitor victim , yet may the be cause innocent , can , and be always the error traced may to be a in source his . proge Pro-
fane writers dimly acknowledged this truth ; and Fate , which was even superipr to the will of the godsis with
what Revelation teaches of that Divine justice , , synonymous which must be satisfiedthough Deity Himself descended to do so . CEdi
innocent , and unconscious of crime , was yet condemned to suffer pus _, . "Wherefore ? Because the guilt of his mother was heinous in its
intensity , and transmitted to her child a heritage of woe . Ancient writers further taught that retribution extended beyond
this life . OEdipus endured in Tartarus the torments due to crimes such as his , unintentional though they were , and bequeathed
to his offspring the legacy of misery . Two of his children , Polynices an and d Anti Eteocles gone , were were condemned mutual fratricides to die a violent ; and his death dau on ghters the speciou Ismene s
pretext that they offended heaven , by giving their brothers honorable buriala duty ever held most _sacrpd ancient nations
It has been , said that the poet is endowed with among a terrible sagacity . .
Here we find the truth indicated but not grasped , and it remained
384: Insanity, Past Ant> Present.
384 : INSANITY , PAST ANT > PRESENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1861, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021861/page/24/
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