The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-10-10


In this condition of the body, the mind being perfect
" free from attention to corporal feeling can be who'll
y concentrated any subject of thought with which
it engaged whereas, if the mind be conscious of
corporeal suffering of any kind as, for instance, If
thought be accompanied with sensation of funess or
uneasness of the head it is impossible that the alb
straction can he so complete, and the concentration
so perfect they would be in state completely VOID
of corporal sensation. A state of health is there.
fore, that condition of body IN which the mind is most
capable of exerton and consequently that state best
fitted for unfolding its capacities and storing it with
ideas, in boyhood and youth
Every description of food which is likely to disturb
this state of corporea equilibrium, if may so speak,
is calculated to prove injurious to the development Of
intellect boy, therefore, who is fed luxuriousy
and whose appetite is pampercd, is i'll calculated for
study for, independent of the seductive invitations
which the pleasures of the table hold out to allure
youth from the severity and dryness of elementary
studies, the injurious effects Of these ndulgences on
health deprive him of the power of applications and
surely we cannot wonder that the nexporence of boy
hood, when thus exposed TO temptations should hazard
even the blessings of health for the enjoyment Of an
hour. Such is the result of the qualification of the
palate the most contemplate of human pleasures on
4 tlS ueVelOpineH OF Intellect but II Is
refinement in the quality of the food only which is TO
be dreaded much s>ief results from over indul-
gence in respect to quantity; and it has always been
a common remark, that boys who are gluttons are
generally stupid, and to employ vulgar phrase, re.
markably thick headed
Fat paunches have lean pates and dainty bits
j Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wis.,
1t is remarkable TO parents induging this detcst-
able propensity in their children, and supplying the
means of gratifying it to excess in their visits at home
from school, as if boys were to be fattened for
4 Smithfeld show. 1t would be high exultation to
the writer of this essay if his remarks could induce
even 1.-THE of his readers to Impress on the rising
generation contempt for the sensual pleasure of
eatingto instil into youth conviction that the only
use of food is to supply the waste of the body and
contribute to the support of its strengthened to teach
them that nothing is truly desirable which is not cal
culated to advance intellectual happiness. That such
state of society," however, should ever exist is rather
to be desired than expected for whatever changes
may have taken place within the last century, men in
this respect have remained stationary, and the follow
ing sentence, written fifty years ago, is applicable to
the present moment =" All assemblies of ioty, and
places of public entertainment, exhibit examples of
strength wasted in riot and beauty whitening in irreg-
uiarty nor is it easy to enter house in which part
of the family is not grooming in repentance of past