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ness of well doing, nor any thing more conducive 

 to health and longevity ; whereas there is nothing 

 more surely inimical to both than the painful 

 emotions of fear, grief, jealousy, intense anxiety, 

 and fell remorse. There is nothing more pleasant 

 and invigorating than moderate exercise of all 

 the organs ; and when they are fatigued, there is 

 nothing more grateful and refreshing than sleep. 

 There is nothing more agreeable and salutary 

 than fresh air, pure water, good bread, milk, 

 eggs, and other animal food when we are hungry, 

 with a due proportion of vegetables, and of ripe 

 fruits in their season. 



Again ; when the temperature of the body and 

 all the energies of life are reduced below the 

 normal standard, as during the cold stage which 

 ushers in nearly all diseases, or when the vital 

 heat has been unduly expended by muscular 

 exertion ; what is so delightful and well suited 

 to rouse the torpor of the nearly suspended func- 

 tions as the agent which causes the heart to beat, 

 the stomach to digest, the muscles to contract, 

 the nerves to feel, and the brain to think. Or 

 when the vital properties of the blood have been 

 impaired by any of the remote and exciting 

 causes of disease, what is so likely to restore its 

 healthy state as the various means of augmenting 

 respiration, by which it is renovated. And when 

 owing to an interruption or diminution of the 

 process by which the animal heat obtained in 



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