Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.

  • Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.
Date:
1832
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    consolidated the honour of the Deity and the glory of the state, and bid defiance to the inroads of the gloom of the conventicle, and the fanaticism of a distempered mind. We must recollect that the world are not all philosophers, and that they who labour hard six days of the week have a right to amusements on the seventh. We, who possess better education, and more leisure, have philosophical recreation for these holydays of a better sort; and I confess, I generally employ my Sun- day afternoon in useful experiments and the pursuits of science ; but what is a poor man to do without these resources.'* Give him rational and active public amuse- ment, J say, and you will keep him from more private vices—from drunkenness and solitary dissipation, and by making him feel that he has diversion provided for him as well as the lich, he will be grateful, healthy, and moral; and it is to this cause, principally, that I attribute the superior morality of many foreign states to that of England. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, T. FORSTER. April 17, 1832,