The Voyage of Life Suggested By Coles Celebrated Allegorical Paintings
The Voyage of Life Suggested By Coles Celebrated Allegorical Paintings
J B Jared Bell Waterbury
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" " The bodily powers become completely prostrated : the memory and the whole mind partake in the ruin, and idiocy or insanity in their most intractable forms close the train of evils. " * Of this class of vices, who does not know that indulgence strengthens desire ; and that one step in this fearful direction is apt to be succeeded by another, until that threshold is reached from \vhich, as from the house of the dead, there seems to be almost no hope of return ! This whirlpool lies hard by the... gorgeous saloon and the brilliantly lighted theatre. These latter are as the rapids tending to THAT, as the awful cataract. In the voyage of life, who could undertake to say how many of the young have been lost in one or the other of these passages to death ? If their * Dr. Ware on the " Relation of the Sexes. " 6 62 THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. history, gathered from theatres, saloons and brothels, could be presented, in all its moral deformity, with all the premature and remorseful deaths, all the broken hearts of parents, and the deep mortification of relatives and friends, it would be such a revelation of vice and its fearful penalties as would startle, and even 'horrify, the community.
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