The influence of civic life, sedentary habits, and intellectual refinement, on human health, and human happiness; including an estimate of the balance of enjoyment and suffering in the different gradations of society / By James Johnson.

  • Johnson, James, 1777-1845.
Date:
1818
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    CHAPTER I. Influence of civic life, sedentary habits. AND INTELLECTUAL REFINEMENT, ON THE ORGANIC SYSTEM AND ITS FUNCTIONS. Section I. On the Digestive Ovpcins O fy Subsection 1. Through the Medium of Food. rjr\ J- he first law of Nature is, “ Eat or be eaten.” Life can only subsist by death. Every organized being, and particularly Man, slays thousands of other organized beings, either in the vegetable or animal kingdom, to build up or maintain his own corporeal fabric. The doc¬ trine of transmigration, therefore, is not en¬ tirely visionary. With ceaseless change the restless atoms pass, from life to life a transmigrating mass; Hence the same organs which to day compose the poisonous henbane or the fragrant rose May, with to-morrow's sun, new forms compile, Frown in the Ilero—in the Beauty smile ! A single glance over the various nations of the earth will convince us that Mtui is com-