Man, moral and physical, or, The influence of health and disease on religious experience / by the Rev. Joseph H. Jones.

  • Jones, J. H. (Joseph Huntington), 1797-1868.
Date:
1861
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    almshouses prove that physical vices are not only perpetuated in the offspring of the guilty parent, but they originate mental deformities. Three-fourths of the idiotic in a Massachusetts' Charity were found to be of parents, one or both of whom were drunken. From an exami- nation of juvenile delinquents at Parkhurst, by Mr. Kay Shuttleworth, it appeared that the majority were found deficient in physical or- ganization, Mr. Coleridge says, that the his- tory of a man for the months that precede his birth, would probably be far more interesting, and contain events of greater moment, than all that follow it. I. THE SACRED WRITINGS. That these should furnish but little instruc- tion on the subject of the present discussion, however important to so large a proportion of modern believers, is easily accounted for. This has fallen rather within the province of that science which has grown out of the changed circumstances of man, especially the great degeneracy in his habits of living. But