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are not deficient in modern languages, and they are 

 disputative, and have a good choice of singularly fine 

 and powerful words, and are most anxious to be 

 heard. If a lecture lately given by a trainer to his 

 employer at Brighton before a large and respectable 

 concourse of strangers be any criterion, there can be 

 no doubt that our profession would shine in such a 

 meritorious assemblage as our present Parliament will 

 be. In short, there are ' great geniuses ' existing in 

 both branches of it, who only want the opportunity 

 to distinguish themselves anywhere, be it in the 

 Senate or on the field of battle. 



Then as to the delicacy of treatment which 

 their physical condition imperatively requires. How 

 changed is all to-day from the rough ill-considered 

 usages of times gone by ! Does not the attenuated 

 form of the wasting jockey proclaim the absolute 

 necessity of relaxation, such as I have before alluded 

 to ? The over-burdened frame, the enervated system, 

 borne down with excessive labour and fatigue, 

 attended as it is with extreme depression of the 

 mental powers, all loudly demand it. Periodical 

 rest, not partial and remittent, but a total cessation 

 from all bodily exertion and mental excitement what- 

 ever, must be had. All men who are old enough to 

 remember things as they were forty years ago will 

 say, as I do, that no such needed recreation was 

 known or enjoyed in that primitive time. Those who 

 have carefully studied the history of Bimana will need 



