The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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There is only one thing whichcan rouse the machine; not will, --that cannot reach it; nothing buta ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats outthe heart of the mechanism. The dreaming faculties are always thedangerous ones, because their mode of action can be imitated byartificial excitement; the reasoning ones are safe, because theyimply continued voluntary effort.
I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten ona man, body, mind, or moral nature must be d...ebilitated. The mossesand fungi gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odiousparasites which fasten on the human frame choose that which isalready enfeebled. Mr. Walker, the hygeian humorist, declared thathe had such a healthy skin it was impossible for any impurity tostick to it, and maintained that it was an absurdity to wash a facewhich was of necessity always clean. I don't know how much fancythere was in this; but there is no fancy in saying that thelassitude of tired-out operatives, and the languor of imaginativenatures in their periods of collapse, and the vacuity of mindsuntrained to labor and discipline, fit the soul and body for thegermination of the seeds of intemperance.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is only one thing whichcan rouse the machine; not will, --that cannot reach it; nothing buta ruinous agent, which hurries the wheels awhile and soon eats outthe heart of the mechanism. The dreaming faculties are always thedangerous ones, because their mode of action can be imitated byartificial excitement; the reasoning ones are safe, because theyimply continued voluntary effort.
I think you will find it true, that, before any vice can fasten ona man, body, mind, or moral nature must be d...ebilitated. The mossesand fungi gather on sickly trees, not thriving ones; and the odiousparasites which fasten on the human frame choose that which isalready enfeebled. Mr. Walker, the hygeian humorist, declared thathe had such a healthy skin it was impossible for any impurity tostick to it, and maintained that it was an absurdity to wash a facewhich was of necessity always clean. I don't know how much fancythere was in this; but there is no fancy in saying that thelassitude of tired-out operatives, and the languor of imaginativenatures in their periods of collapse, and the vacuity of mindsuntrained to labor and discipline, fit the soul and body for thegermination of the seeds of intemperance.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 to read onlineMoreLess
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