Voices of the sages, the times and the ages, or, Historic gleanings : teaching the way to attain health and longevity, virtue and happiness, and to avoid disease and early death, crime and misery / [Omega].

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[between 1840 and 1849?]
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Credit: Voices of the sages, the times and the ages, or, Historic gleanings : teaching the way to attain health and longevity, virtue and happiness, and to avoid disease and early death, crime and misery / [Omega]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ETC. No eybil'a scroll do we now require— Though strange events come thronging thick and fast. Though hope or dread the horizon may inspire— No sybil's scroll we need !—Thy page, great past, Is opened to us! Therein crowd amassed All answers to our questionings, and 'tis there, If our calm looks unprejudiced we cast, We the end shall trace of deeds, and doom that wear To their conclusions on, like all things earth may share! In sooth, no sybil do we need nor seer, Experience lias enriched us with her store Piled through the increase of ages, which each year, Each day augments. Turn Visionary [or rather we should say. Visions op Coming Taurus], by Lady E. S. Woutley. Having adduced and published, in The Coming Times, the examples and teachings of Scripture, combined with its prophetic visions of the future, these pages will contain the testimony of History in support of the same truths in respect to the proper food of man. Those nations who departed from the knowledge of the true God, but who nevertheless inherited the nature God had given to Adam, will be the first examples. Some of the heathens attained to great heights of knowledge and virtue by obedience to the voice of conscience, and without the knowledge we now possess, reached to exalted conceptions of the Great Being who rules the universe. The men who most distinguished themselves were those who strictly adhered to plain diet, and otherwiso attended to the laws of health. Homer is the oldest of the poets. He described the wisdom of the choice of Hercules in preferring the path of labour and self-denial to the path of flowery ease. He also gave, his testimony to the fact that the Hemolgians (milk and vegetable eaters) were the longest lived and honestest of men. Pythagoras, Plato, Plutarch, Socrates, Epicurus, and the whole school of Grecian philosophers, as also many warriors and states-