Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself.

  • Whiting, Sydney, -1875.
Date:
[between 1850 ad 1859]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of a stomach / written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gullet, and the bag myself, I often wish there were more “stops,” especially when I am played upon by gluttony, and perhaps there would have been, oould I give vent to noises similar to those of the Caledonian instrument, whose strains are so ter- rible that the brave Highlanders are said to rush into battle to escape them. The internal structure of the whole of my tribe. Nature originally made very nearly per- fect, but she allotted a large degree of influence to a presiding faculty of the mind called Eea- son ; and in consideration of man’s elevation beyond, and above all created things, she made it a rule absolute that man himself should, by the use of this presence, reign over his own des- tiny. Now, this seems to be a very fair provision ; for, had Nature chosen to form man as a mere piece of perfect machinery, no doubt she could have done 80 ; but by apportioning to him certain high facul- ties, and giving to him a discretionary power, she made him a free agent, and permits him to exhibit all those lights and shades of character which make him so remarkable an animal, and so well wortli the li