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Institute ;" the object of the corporation thereby created 

 being to purchase lands, to erect and furnish buildings, to 

 ornament and improve grounds, for the treatment of in- 

 valids and for the enjoyment and amusement of others 

 seeking recreation and health; also, to found a museum, 

 library, observatory, and other facilities for the study and 

 promotion of the natural sciences. An institution thus 

 embracing both elements of man, its end, the restoration 

 and perpetuation of the soundness of his physical frame, 

 and the culture, development, and sanity of his soul. Thus 

 was the infirm mind as well as diseased body, the spiritual 

 as well as the animal man, to be represented. Not for 

 wine-bibbers, sensual and profane persons, not for the 

 gross and godless, not for seekers and lovers of pleasure 

 alone was it to be provided, but for the sick and the suffer- 

 ing, the mournful wanderers in the dismal realms of the 

 pain-world, and to whom is left only weariness of being, 

 sorrow, and the bitter waiting for the great physician, 

 Death. Also for the broken-hearted, the heavy-laden, the 

 oppressed and overworked man, of whatever calling or 

 election, the diseased, disabled, conscript brother, with 

 "horny hands or wrinkled brow," who with heroic will 

 has grandly accepted the curses of existence, and dared to 

 fight the battle of life manfully. Also the privileged bro- 

 ther, born with golden spoon on lip, to whom existence is 

 a long, long summer day of delight, pleasure, pleasure only 

 being the " chief end of man," but to whom also is there a 

 ghastly compensation revealing itself, in the revenge of 

 pound of pain for pound of pleasure, of pound of agony for 

 pound of joy. 



A home also was it to be for the wise and the gentle, the 

 cultivated and refined, those whose bodies long for more 

 perfect health, and whose souls also hunger for knowledge; 

 thus offering to the human family almost the whole cata- 

 logue of good things left at the fall of man ; namely, the 

 pure elements of nature, health and soundness, books, and 

 the joys of wisdom, including the compensation of two 



