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means , in other words , consignment to listiessness , apathy , and the minor infamies of mischiefs , which swarm upon society in the tehape of idle and mendacious gossip , and paltry intrigue . ' Satiety is the common and catholic curse of the idle portion of a civilized country /
It is one of the finest points in the system of Pestalozzi , that it inculcates simultaneous attention to every part of the human constitution ;—this is no feature of the plan upon which the course of any being ' s existence proceeds . The human machinery is everywhere subjected to a circumstance which would spoil any other machinery , and why not that ? The circumstance which I mean is the morbid state of rest of one part , co-existent with the excessive action of some other parts : by this means the whole fabric is strained and distorted—an inert body , with , consequently , inactive functions , ultimately paralyzes the mind , or an overtasked mind shatters the body . I should serve the cause of many a home in which a toiling anxious father and husband struggles to support a wife , and
growing or grown-up daughters , in the ladylike habits of doing nothing , or worse than nothing , if I could persuade them that doing , or assisting to do , their household work is no derogation from their dignity , but the preservation of it ; since , by so doing they render themselves , in a great degree , independent of those , on whom , in the present state of their education , little dependence can be placed ; they would increase the measure of their comforts ,
relieve themselves of many annoyances to which genteel poverty must submit , and which economy , and industry , and activity escape . Let them remember that he who goes to his daily toils is also travelling to his grave , and when , at last , he lies down to take his everlasting rest , how pleasant to their spirits will it be to think that they lightened the load he had to bear in life , instead of increasing the burthen .
In the far greater number of women the human spirit is overlaid by an unexercised body , as a child sometimes is by a lazy nurse ; in fact the indolence of women is inconceivable , and is , in itself , almost enough to account for their hanging on the rear of the human march , instead of leading the van as they often
mig ht . Were I asked what class of women generally exhibited most of the beauty which consists in health ( the best beauty , whatever the zephyrines and fr agilities may think ) , and the happiness contingent cm good spirits , I should say , maid-servants . Exercise , of which walkin g and dancing are but branches , is indispensable to health ; and cheerfulness is inseparable from activity . But exercise and activity are beneficial in proportion to the excellence of the motives which puts them into action . Thus it is that the effoits which produce the clean hearth , the brig ht fcne , polishedfarahuk ' > and all the thousand charms of n well-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/22/
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