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10 INSANITY; ITS CAUSE AND CURE.
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food children by no has otlier born a most remed of depressing parents y than under beef " influence and these porter on con the . ditions I nervous have are no system to doubt beg . in " want with The of ,
, weaker as _regards more excitable physical . energy Those , who and have they had are to generall do with y crimi , as a -
nal consequence or pauper , children drawn from this class , testify to their frightful excitability . The girls are especially wild terror in this of workhouse respect , and autho the
rities young * and women some of have the . been same sent class to are gaol the for violent conduct , who might - with , more propriety have been sent to a lunatic asylum . Then the
men calming t , they influence are hurrie of the d with jud what gment stock has little of energy opportunit they possess y for develop at the - moral
instinct often earliest also of , possible which both forms so period the _offcen safeguar the into supp sorel the lies d of vortex the mind tried place of and is toil " of weakened bod . jud y That , gment and in natural preserves , the and case which the of sanity y
those whose fall among we are tracing , by the , repeated triumpli of _temptranqxrili tation too sing strong and for eminentl their y powers sanitary of resistance power . As , and they withdraws grow for up the its to
mankood and womanhood , . the terrible pressure of anxiety rality supply , or of trials the necessitie of temper s of arising the bod from y , or the the irritabilit excitements y of inadequate of
immostrength , or the unnatural depression resulting from the same cause , complicated with the physical infirmities which which appear leads alternatel to mad y as
cause and effect , terminate in intemperance - ness are , the if not incurables directly in madness our itself pauper . The lunatics children . Look of such too parents at the
children of our union among schoolsat the weak and low type of physical and mental conformation which , prevails among them . Look at the condition of
children pauperism fact that are they , that born are they in generall workhouses are in y unable reality and a to that race rise in of above workhouses paupers the , th they at their will s- j \
die , ending life as they began it , their , feeble bodies nourished with bodies bling workhouse . of Thank human gruel Heaven , creatures their poor the out necessity souls of this solaced sloug for h with raising of despond workhouse the is minds beginning grum and
to " the find "besetting recognition basenesses also , even of on human the princi nature ples , " as of they social have economy been , J j
calledand sometimes seem , when basely used . It is beginning to | be seen , that we must give our paupers a good lift over the road to | them back
better conditionsif we would not have come upon our I hands ; that we must , pay up the interest , at least , of our social sin , | social burdens
if we would not increase the principal of our . So | realldoing something to restore our paupers to a sanitary |
we are y and condition women of are bod able y and to do mind take , to care enable of themselves them to do . what Bodil sane y disease | men J
is and readil it is y not enoug difficult h traced to trace to , bad mental sanitary disorder conditions , and even in these incapacity | days , , I
10 Insanity; Its Cause And Cure.
10 INSANITY ; ITS CAUSE AND CURE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/10/
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