Human Physiology: The Basis of Sanitary and Social Science

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Nichols, 1872 - 480 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 232 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come? Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Pàgina 140 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that, whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Pàgina 44 - ... 4. That total and universal abstinence from alcoholic liquors and intoxicating beverages of all sorts would greatly contribute to the health, the prosperity, the morality, and the happiness of the human race.
Pàgina 281 - Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them ; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
Pàgina 38 - ... publications spread through the cottages of our operatives ; with democratic ideas of the wildest kinds, and a knowledge of the power of union daily gaining ground among them ; — here, too, where the poor have no stake whatever in the country ; where there are no small properties ; where the most frightful discrepancy exists between the richer and the poorer classes ; where the poor fancy they have nothing to lose and...
Pàgina 44 - We, the undersigned, are of opinion, — " 1. That a very large proportion of human misery, including poverty, disease, and crime, is induced by the use of alcoholic or fermented liquors as beverages. "2. That the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, &c.
Pàgina 44 - That persons accustomed to such drinks may with perfect safety discontinue them entirely, either at once, or gradually after a short time.
Pàgina 281 - Yet he might by selection do something not only for the bodily constitution and frame of his offspring, but for their intellectual and moral qualities. Both sexes ought to refrain from marriage if they are in any marked degree inferior in body or mind; but such hopes are Utopian and will never be even partially realized until the laws of inheritance are thoroughly known.
Pàgina 281 - When the principles of breeding and inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.
Pàgina 401 - In our opinions, in sc* far as they are influenced by our dispositions, our beliefs, in so far as they, are controlled by our inclination, are legitimate subjects of responsibility. Inclination has nothing whatever to do in believing that two and two make four, or that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. A man in his senses could not believe otherwise. But inclination has much to do in receiving or rejecting moral and religious truth.

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