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the helpless young creature whom she attended through the successive times of agony , which gave three consumptive , and at last two idiot , children to the world . One of the latter is all that is left of the brilliant Cyril and his beautiful wife , whose scene of degradation closed in death when
their last surviving victim child was four years old . The poor old nurse , who preserves her benevolence amid even the dotage of second childhood , cherishes the idiot orphan with an exclusive and yearning love , and seeks for him and for herself a bitter crust in the walks of beggary ! M . L . G .
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i The Philosophy of Health . 153
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All who are addicted to the pursuit , or earnest for the promotion of useful science , must feel a strong interest both in the subject and the object of the work , the first volume of which is now before us .
The first title will be far from conveying to many readers a full conception of the author ' s meaning . The term Health must be understood in its widest and highest acceptation , the metis sarta in corpore sano ; the condition of well-being . Such is the interpretation fixed upon it by the second and explanatory title , which , if less taking , is less liable to be mistaken , and is really the description of the work , provided the remaining portions
correspond with the commencement , which may confidently be anticipated . Many thousand times has it been affirmed that ' the proper study of mankind is man ; ' but from the time of Pythagoras downwards , the repetition of the admonition to self-knowledge has
been found an easier operation than that of accumulating the materials and guiding the student to their successful employment . The real promoters of this much lauded study are not those who vehemently enforce it , but those who apply to it the aids and rules of philosophizing . They are a much less numerous class . But as
the mere iteration of precept is not more efficacious in science than in morals , they are the class which deserves our gratitude . Unhappily they have made but slow progress in rendering human nature the object of science . While in other regions * the reign of Chaos and Old Night' has yielded to successful invasion , it seems to have retreated to this as a citadel where a last and lon ^
stand might be made ; and it has been made . Theories of man have been , wholly or partially , nothing more than theories ; the writers who best succeeded in one department of the great subject ? The Philosophy of Health ; or an Exposition of the Physical and Mental Constitution of Man , with a view to the Promotion of Human Longevity and Happiness , By Southwood Smith , M . D . vol . i .
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/9/
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