292 LETTERS TO BROTHER JOHN. 



LETTER X. 



224 Blackfriars Road, 



_ , 15th Oct 1836. 



MY DEAR JOHN, 



"WHEN I concluded my last Letter, I thought I 

 had said all that was necessary for your guidance, as 

 to what kind of diet and what sort of habits should 

 be used, as being most conducive to health and to 

 the proper enjoyment of life : and, if you have be- 

 stowed common attention on what I have written, 

 you cannot have failed in observing that I have all 

 along maintained that those things, and those only, 

 are the most proper, which are the most natural. 



When I had proceeded thus far, I flattered my- 

 self that Brother John was at length sufficiently 

 enlightened to be put out of leading-strings, and 

 might be left to regulate his own conduct with- 

 out further advice. 



Before, however, I finally dismissed the matter 

 from my mind, it struck me, that it might be as 

 well, not only to consider what is man's natural con- 



