Near Unto God 22. NO ONE questions any longer that the atmosphere in which we breathe and live exerts an uncommon influence upon our health.
Fresh air builds up and invigorates.
Hence the pale and the anaemic are always urged to seek fresh air and to breathe more healthy atmospheres. Hence, equally, in hot, sultry summer days the panting for relief which evening brings, and, if within easy reach of the shore, the longing for a breath of the cooler, more invigorating air of the sea. This, too, is above question. Sad and joyous events continually show both how injuriously low moral standards affect character, and how life amid moral and healthy surroundings quickens one's moral sense. The moral life, too, has laws and ordinances.