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CHAPTER IV. 



ILLS OF THE FLESH THE STIPEND OF THE HUNDRED SCUDI. 



THE spirit of the young Cardan, housed within its 

 temple of the flesh, suffered, in contact with the world 

 about it, such discouragements. The story of his outer 

 life up to his nineteenth year is told in the preceding 

 chapters. We must now put a finger on his pulse. The 

 day may come when somebody shall teach us how to 

 estimate the sum of human kindness that proceeds from 

 good digestion and a pure state of the blood the dis- 

 putes and jealousies that owe their rise entirely to the 

 livers of a number of the disputants or how much fret- 

 fulness, how many outbursts of impatience, how much 

 quick restlessness of action, is produced by the condition 

 of the nervous matter. Such calculations, though we 

 cannot make them in the gross, we make, or ought to 

 make, instinctively when we become intimate with indi- 

 viduals. The physical life of a man cannot be dissociated 

 fairly from his intellectual and moral life, when we at- 

 tempt to judge him by the story of his actions. In the 



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