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inconveniency of a too sedentary mode of life will be 

 sufficiently counteracted. A little attention, how- 

 ever, to the principles of physiology might correct 

 this mistake. These duties discharged amongst the 

 distant members of your flock are all of a solemn 

 kind, and many of them deeply affecting keeping 

 the mind as intent as in the study, causing the heart 

 and throat to swell and tears to flow, and keeping in 

 quick vibration all those untraceable cords that serve 

 for a correspondence between the mind and the re- 

 motest material parts of our system. This mode of 

 overworking and wearing by only one sort of appli- 

 cation, which is inconsistent with the health of our 

 frame, as it is inconsistent with man's nature, soon 

 destroys either the mind or the body; and indiges- 

 tion, or bilious disorder, is frequently the first inti- 

 mation that violence has been done to the laws of 

 our constitution. 



The great prevalence of this Protean malady 

 amongst my clerical brethren might be attested by 

 the illustrious practice of the late Dr. Gregory, or 

 that of his successor, Dr. T., the hope of such des- 

 pondents. With great love to my brethren, and 

 perfect belief of a theory, agreeing with nature's de- 

 signs, and verified by facts, I recommend the work 

 of the garden, which effectually sets the mind upon 

 a new train of ideas, whilst it gives salutary play to 

 all the bodily functions. The long continued same- 

 ness of intellectual exertion, whilst health remains, 

 too nearly resembles that lamentable state of mind, 

 in which only one idea can be entertained, to be 

 judged either accordant to the indications of nature 

 or beneficial to humanity. Do you plead that you 



