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his head, to walk very gently from one carpeted room to 

 another, or in very tight boots to stand gaping at his 

 fellow creatures as, at different rates, they pass in pro- 

 cession before his club window, he may live, die, and 

 be screwed up in his coffin without ever discovering 

 the mistake he has committed; but, on the other hand, 

 if he has only for a few years been exposed to hard 

 work, and even without severe labour to the vicissitudes 

 of climate, he very soon finds out that he is suffering 

 from the uncongenial clothing in which he has been 

 existing. Indeed, our soldiers and sailors on active 

 service, whether within the tropics or the polar regions ; 

 our labourers, especially those who work underground in 

 mines ; in fact all classes of people, sooner or later, are 

 not only by medical men admonished, but by the aches 

 and pains of Caliban, with all the ills which flesh is 

 heir to when it has been suddenly chilled, are forced 

 to discard vegetable covering, in order to nestle, for the 

 remainder of their lives, in woollen clothing next to 

 their skin ; and when a man has lived to make this 

 important discovery, he keenly feels that although his 

 friend and neighbour would be grievously out of fashion 

 were he to walk about the world with his cotton 

 drawers over his woollen trousers, and with his Irish- 

 linen shirt outside his coat, yet that it would be less 

 insane and infinitely more reasonable for him to do so 



