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386 the ladies' sanitaby association.
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and air , and physical education of any kind , prove them to be the finest race in Europe . Not merely the aristocracysplendid race as
they are , but down and down and down to the , lowest laboring manto the navigator ;— -why there is not such a body of men in
Euro , pe as our navigators , and no body of men perhaps have had a worse chance of growing to be what they are ; and yet see what
they have done . See the magnificent men they become in spite of all that is against them , all that is drawing them back , all that is
tending to give them rickets and consumption , and all the miserable diseases which children contract ; see what men they are , and then
conceive what they might be _. " It has been saidagain and againthat there are no more
beautiful races of women in , Europe than the , wives and daughters of our London shopkeepers , and yet there are few races of people who lead a
life more in opposition to all rules of hygiene . But , in spite of all thatso wonderful is the vitality of the English _xacethey
are what , they are ; and therefore we have the finest material , to work upon that people ever had . And therefore , again , we have
the less excuse if we do allow _JEngHsh people to grow up puny , stunted , and diseased ,
" Let me refer again to that word that I used : death—the amount of death . I really believe there are hundreds of good and kind
people who would take up tMs subject with their whole heart and soul if they were aware of the magnitude of the evil . Lord
Shaftesbury told you just now that there were one hundred thousand preventable deaths in England every year . So it is . We talk of
tlie loss of human life in war . We are the fools of smoke and noise ; because there are cannon balls and gunpowder and red coats ,
and because it costs a great deal of money and makes a great deal of noise in the papers , we think , What so terrible as war ? I will tell
you what is ten times , and ten thousand times , more terrible than war , and that is—outraged nature . War , we are discovering now , is
the clumsiest and most expensive of all games ; we . are finding . that if you wish to commit an act of cruelty or folly , the most
exp men ensiv in ac war t tha . t So you it seems comm but it is t Nature o contrive insidious to shoot your inex fellow ensive - silentsends no roar of cannon ; no glitter , of arms to , do her p work ; ,
she g ives , loma no tic warning advances note whereby of prep , aration she warns ; she her has enemy no protocol that war , nor is
comin any g p . Silently , I say , , and insidiously she goes ; she does not even go forth , she does not step out of her path , but quietly , by
the very same laws by which she makes alive , she kills and kills and killsBthe same laws bwhich every blade of grass grows
and . every y insect very springs to life in y the sunbeam till she , has she kills ht and kills the ,
and kills , and is never tired of killing taugman terrible lesson he is so slow to learn , that Nature is only conquered
_]> y ob And eying bear her in . mind one thing more . Man has his courtesies of war *
386 The Ladies' Sanitaby Association.
386 the ladies' sanitaby association .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/26/
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