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Buch a determination of voluntary human conduct , as may secure the pleasurable an 4 a . void the painful . . , _ ,. .,. 4 Yet nothing would seem a fitter study for man than the nature of man in this sense of the term . A knowledge of the structure and functions of the body is admitted to be indispensable to whoever
undertakes , as the business of his profession , to protect those organs from injury , and to restore their action to a sound state when it has become disordered ; but surely some knowledge of this kind may be useful to those who have no intention to practise physic , or to perform operations in surgery ; may be useful to every human being , to enable him to taHe a rational care of his health , to make him observant of his own altered
sensations , as indications of approaching sickness ; to give him the power of communicating intelligibly with his medical adviser respecting the seat and the succession of those signs of disordered function , and to dispose and qualify him to co-operate with his physician in the use of the means employed to avert impending danger , or to remove actual disease . ' p . 2—4 .
Of the author ' s qualifications for so comprehensive a work there is some evidence in his appreciation of its extent and importance . This inference is well corroborated by his fdffnef publications , distinguished as they are by that unusual dofilbination of faculties which the case requires . One of his earliest works , that on * Divine Government , ' showed that he had akeaxi y sounded the depths of the great questions in morals . His
' Funeral Oration' over the body of Bentham indicated the pro * gress ot his speculations to a matured and systematized form * His work on * Fever has taken its place among the standard books on physical disease . And in all these publications he has shown the true attributes of a popular philosopher , the power of ascending from the particular to the general > from facta to principles , from phenomena to laws ; and also that of pteseiiting , not only the results , but the mode of ascertaining and applying them , in an interesting and impressive manner . We could , n
necessary , refer , in exemplification , to many felicitous instances of scientific generalization and of eloquent description or appeal . Such passages are of frequent occurrence in the works we have named j they are not wanting in the present volume ; and from the nature of the undertaking we may expect it to be amply enriched by them in its progress . The ( Introduction / from which we have already quoted , has a passage which might be cited as a specimen of popular argumentation ; but which we transfer to our pages foi a tnotffc
important purpose 5 to protnote , if we can , to any extent , the Wise and beneficent purpbae of the writer . The fervid eloquence of Rotisseau aroused Woftieh to a sense of the p hysical obligations of the maternal character ; well were it that the persuasion of the author of this Work should incite them to become the mothers , mentally and nnorally , of * their offspring . * The fieoond epoch of infancy ( from the seventh month to the end
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The Philosophy of Health * \ &fr
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/11/
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