The Commonhealth a Series of Essays On Health And Felicity for Every Day Reade
The Commonhealth a Series of Essays On Health And Felicity for Every Day Reade
Richardson Benjamin Ward
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She will never excite it for a moment by story of superstition or dread. She will never suggest it. To tell a fainting or feeble person, ' You look weak, you look pale, ' is, as she will learn, to add weakness to weakness, pallor to pallor, and ashes to ashes. She will lift up ; disperse moral contagions wherever they are found ; isolate the susceptible to them, as far as it is possible, from the centres of them ; and through the windows of the mind let nothing pass but the sunshine of mirth an...d strength and beauty. Finally, in physical psychological training there would stand out for contemplation, and action founded upon it, one more subject: that marvel of the marvellous in living phenomena, heredity of type and action, extending to health, and extending, alas ! to disease in its deepest foundations. A little aid from books of learned men, of WOMAN AS A SANITARY REFORMER 199 the learned man of this branch of knowledge especially — you know I can only mean Darwin — would help the scholar much ; but the aid she will soon be led to find in the yet higher authority of nature will help her most.
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