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tirely initial" to each other, but as pillars of one great 

 temple, parts of one grand whole, over which presides that 

 unity of design, that oneness of spirit which is the mind and 

 majesty of the world. 



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The education of the stomach is one of the great accomplishments 

 of the civic state. 'Tis not the brain, but stomach, that represents 

 thee truly, multifarious man ! In the hot-bed of metropolitan life, 

 behold how faithfully, hand in hand, go the graces with the fell dis- 

 graces ; how quickly luxury and vice dethrone the soul, and sin 

 " that high face defaces !" 



(NOTE TO PAGE 555, AT f) 



In the Philadelphia edition, published by J. B. Lippincott & Co , 

 1859, of Dr Moorman's "Virginia Springs," there is a note, page 

 209, referring to a quotation made from a former edition of his 

 work, in The Mountain, page 161. This quotation is verbatim, and, 

 for the satisfaction of any hope inspired by it, the consumptive 

 reader was simply referred to Dr. Moorman's book for anything it 

 might contain on the "cure of confirmed consumption." 



That quotation is certainly an indorsement, to a certain extent, of 

 the fact advanced, "confirmed consumption" being included in the list 

 of diseases for the cure of which one of the waters he describes had 

 "peculiar and distinguished reputation." In the second, or Richmond 

 edition, we find the following words, page 153, which are republished 

 in the Philadelphia edition, page 208: " The peculiar and distinguish- 

 ing reputation of this water (lied Sulphur Springs) as a medical agent, 

 is for diseases of the thoracic viscera, and, by some it has been con- 

 sidered remedial in confirmed tubercular consumption. Without affirm- 

 ing or controverting this high claim for the water as a remedy in 

 confirmed consumption, our observations," etc. etc. The following 

 is the note referred to in the Philadelphia edition of Dr. Moorman's 

 book: "In a work [he should have said the first part of a work] 

 just issued from the Philadelphia press, entitled The Mountain, our 

 volume is referred to as showing that this water cures confirmed con- 

 sumption. We need scarcely say to our careful readers that it is a 

 mistake to ascribe such an opinion to us ; and that we never held 



