The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds: and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents, which produce disease, and shorten the duration of life ... / by C. Turner Thackrah.

  • Thackrah, Charles Turner, 1795-1833.
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufactures of Leeds: and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents, which produce disease, and shorten the duration of life ... / by C. Turner Thackrah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reduce our happiness. Here he brings conviction. “ Uni animantium luctus est datus,—uni luxuria, & quidem innu- merabilibus modis & per singula membra: uni ambitio, uni avaritia, uni immensa videndi cupido. * * * * * Nulli vita fragilior, nulli rerum omnium libido major, nulli pavor confusior, nulli rabies acrior.” He then animadverts on the opprobrium of man, his hostility to his own species; and con- cludes,—* At hercule homini plurima ex homine sunt mala.” This might be a text for my paper. If we turn our view from man to his works, we see the wilderness converted into towns and cities, roads cut through mountains, bridges carried over rivers and even arms of the sea, ships which traverse the globe, lakes converted into covered with timber ;—in a word, we see the face of the world changed by human will and human power. If we look immediately at home, we observe the wonders which science and art have effected. We see large buildings, manufactures of almost every kind, and substances so changed, reformed, and combined, that nature could scarcely know her own productions. We admire the inventions of science, alike in their minuteness and their size, their accuracy, and their establishments so numerous and extensive as almost to supply the civilized world: we see the slight blue-flowered product of the field formed, in the same mill, into the thread which passes through the eye of the needle, and into the canvass which bears our ships to every region of the globe: we see rough and massive minerals drawn from the bowels of the earth, converted, on the one hand, into instruments which surpass in power the united strength of the largest animals, and on the other, formed into the finest and most delicate pieces of mechanism. These, and works like these, are assuredly wonderful. But while we admire, let us examine. What are thé effects of —_