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m& ' tti sympap ^ ^ s fellow-creature *; contracts even a jealousy of their pleasures , aid at last a hatred ; and would like to seeafl the rest of mankind as wretched as himself . If he is habitually wretched , and rarely permitted to taste a pleasure , he snatches it , with an avidityand indulges with an
intempe-, rance , almost unknown to any other man . The evil of , insufficient food acts with an influence pot less , malignant upon the intellectual , than upon the moral , part of the hiunan mind . The physiologists account for its influence in this
manner : They say that the signs by which the living energy is manifested , may be included generally under the term irritability , or the power of being put in action by stimulants . It is not necessary for as to be very particular in explaining
these terms ; a general conception will for the present suffice . There is a certain degree of this irritability in the frame of man , upon which the proper state , or rather the very existence , of the animal functions seems necessarily to depend . A succession of stimulants , of a certain
degree of frequency and strength , is necessary to preserve that irritability . The most important by far *> f all the useful stimulants to the living otfgans is food If this stimulant is applied in less than a sufficient degree , the irritability is diminished in proportion , and alt those
manifestations of tke living -energy which depend upon it , mental as well as corporeal , are impaired ; the mind loses a corresponding part of its force . We must refer to the philosophical writers on medicine for iUustrktiohs and facts which
we have not room to adduce , but which will not be difficult tty collect . Dr . Cnchton ( Inquiry into Mental Defange-**?**> I . 274 ) places poor diet at the head ° * a list of causes which < weaken ait * t
entioB * and consequently debilitate the Whple facias of . tfafs . gffato .. SVom thi * 2 J * » a J » P »* ' wiy
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certain . vigour of ^ iMndj % e 1 tor # % l |^ c ^ trl in the midst of habitual iuft ^ itogfre ^ k a presented pleasure ^ % i | itpal ownj ^ lipeal and the , causes of # i ^ ii ^ fefee 46 g < nfti § $ be _ , worth s 0 tnet | ilM ^ j ^^^ i ^^ ap vali ^ , so as ta ^ i ? espe ^ t 0 ^ iglMM ^ ?^^? ^ other jh ^ qr' ^ ^ pp&i individual may b ^ # n extraordinary nidividual , and elhifeii nie ^ p &cl ^ #% I 3 ie midst of wi ^ t ^ hedne ' ' ^ af- | to ^§ W l ^^ «/ z ^ excellent people hevW ^ yer ^ M ^ seen on the face of the ear 0 : * tti 6 tiM f ^ from fond of paradoxical expre s ^ ioiffii'W ^ are tempted to say , that a goodl ^ bft ®
a necessary part of a good education ; far in one very important sense it is emphatically true . In the greaj body of the people all education is impotent without it " ' , The friends of general education ought therefore to be the enemies ofi ^ a
system of exorbitant taxation , which is always immoral and degrading in ; its tendency . But alas ! there seems little prospect of good for the multitude—what ever your Millenarian readers may think —in any probable condition of their affairs . If manufactures-be at a stand .
extreme poverty and misery are the consequence ; if they go on with spirit , let another writer from the work above quoted , { Dugald Bannatyne , T&&q ., Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce , Glasgow , ) in his conclusion of the account of Glasgow , say what follows :
" In reviewing the circumstances'of a large manufacturing community , tfris inelancholy consideration forces itself on the mind—that the discoveries in mechanics and improvements in the various processes of production 9 intended by nature to in *
crease the sum of mans comforts * should , in the way the a ffairs of the world ay conducted , terminate always in lowering his condition . The end seems to be every where sacrificed to the means ; and we find manufactures valued , not as they enq ~ We those employed in them to add td tfte
amount of their enjdyments , but * as Vfieh sexve to increase the gerieral' reveriitd ofJFhe country / 9 A ToM " Kevenue" sWall 0 ws t $ & ' $ & tbing < --9 pmfi > rt f jpr ^ e ^^ joq ^ J ^ SH ^^ |;; # ^^» x the ^^ ' ^ , ^) . wj ^ , ^^^ ducted / ' tk }? world ^^ mi ^ m ^ mS poor man ' s . ^ WfFfflHm : t
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Mr . Teutm ' s Afa ®^ g |§
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 579, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/15/
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