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life, and life-giving. The spiritual sustenance we derive from 

 the relations of domestic love and friendship is so important to 

 health, that all suffer, and many pine and perish without it. 



I scarcely need here repeat what I have written in Part Fourth 

 on Chastity as a condition of health. Sensual indulgence is the 

 most fatal waste of life. The health of thousands is destroyed 

 in childhood and youth, and civilisation is full of miserable 

 wrecks of manhood and womanhood from unnatural or exces- 

 sive amative indulgence. There is no more important health 

 injunction than the emphatic command of the apostle, "Keep 

 thyself chaste." " Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of 

 it are the issues of life." 



Harmony with pature is the condition of health for every 

 creature ; and man requires also the higher harmonies of union 

 and communion with the invisible and spiritual. His body 

 must be in the order of the natural life ; but his soul must be 

 no less in the order of the spiritual life ; and his highest facul- 

 ties, by which he recognises and feels his relation to the spiritual 

 and eternal, demand their use and satisfaction, no less than 

 those which minister to his earthly wants. 



Freedom in order, obedience to law, that only liberty 

 which is the right to do right, are the conditions of health. 

 Anger, hatred, remorse, anxiety, all disturbing passions, are 

 foes to health. Every exhortation to the exercise of the Chris- 

 tian virtues of faith, hope, and charity, is an exhortation to 

 health. Finally, before universal health be possible, there must 

 be the reign of justice, of right, or what the common version 

 of the Scriptures calls righteousness, upon the earth. If men 

 were banded together in the love of God and humanity, not 

 contending against each other in selfish competition, but gener- 

 ously labouring together for the good of all if, in a word, man 

 loved his neighbour as himself, there would be no more wasting 

 anxiety, no care that kills, none of that mental misery which is 

 the most terrible result of our discordant and wretched social 



