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Thus, from both worlds, represented in the elements of the 

 mournfully-ruined and crushed members of the mangled 

 giant, from natural, from supernatural, come the stern 



methods of attaining a long and healthy life." In this little trea- 

 tise we are presented with an ecstatic series of encomiums, or half 

 lyrical jubilations, or hymns, to his golden panacea for all sorrow, 

 infirmity, and disease of humanity, his formula of elements being, 

 that earthly soundness, contentment and happiness, and a long life, 

 are only attainable through a rigid adherance to the laws of temperance, 

 sobriety, exercise, and the cultivation of the household virtues of good 

 temper, regular hours, cheerful spirits, including sentiment and 

 music. Hear an apostrophe of the venerable youth of 100 in a mo- 

 ment of exhilaration : 



"0 holy, happy, and thrice blessed temperance! how worthy art 

 thou of our highest esteem! and how infinitely art thou preferable 

 to an irregular and disorderly life ! Nay, would men but consider 

 the effects and consequences of both, they would immediately see 

 that there is as wide a difference between them as there is betwixt 

 light and darkness, heaven and hell." 



Again, the pious old disciple of the doctrine of physical regenera- 

 tion through personal holiness and cleanness alone, proceeds : 



"But from these two evils, (sickness and death,) so dreadful to 

 many, blessed be God, I have but little to fear; for, as for death, I have 

 a joyful hope that that change, come when it may, will be gloriously 

 for the better; and besides, I trust that He, whose divine voice I have 

 so long obeyed, will graciously support and comfort his aged servant 

 in that trying hour. And as for sickness, I feel but little apprehen- 

 sion on that account, since by my divine medicine TEMPERANCE, I 

 have removed all the causes of illness ; so that I am pretty sure I 

 shall never be sick, except it be from some intent of Divine mercy, 

 and then I hope I shall bear it without a murmur, and find it for my 

 good. Nay, I have reason to think that my soul has so agreeable a 

 dwelling in my body, finding nothing in it but peace and harmony 

 between my reason and senses, that she is very well pleased with her 

 present situation ; so that I trust I have still a great many years to 

 live in health and spirits, and enjoy this beautiful world, which is 

 indeed beautiful to those who know how to make it so, as I have done^ 

 and likewise expect (with God's assistance) to be able to do in the 

 next. 



"Now, since a regular life is so happy, and its blessings so per- 

 manent and great, all I have still left to do (since I cannot accom- 

 plish my wishes by fore e) is to beseech every man of sound under- 



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