The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-11-30
IL E A l. II
BY o. s. F o wLER

1 How can the balance Of The Tempera
. menls be preserved or rrgained? Th
, ready answer Is,
BY their respective exercise and cult
walton.
. Has your mental apparatus become to-
! powerful and active, and your muscuIa
loo weak, stop those %sedenlary or menta
pursuits which have induced this Stale 0
things; suspend business; remove care
and anxiety; take much physical exercise
and even moderate labor will be of grea
service 10 you, or rather, is indispensable;
avoid stimulants OF all kinds and degrees
for they excite the nervous system which
you wish to remain quiescent; retire ear
Iy, first taking care to make yoursel
sleepy; rise early, but sleep enough; ban
ish care from your pillow; give yonl fooC
ample time to digest, and lett be of a cool
ing nature; avoid animal food, tea, coffee
wines, porler, &c., the effect of which is
highly irritating to the nerves; in short
keep your brain and nerves free from eX-
element, and exercise your muscles as
much as they will bear, but no more, and
that moderately, and the equilibrium will
soon begin to be restored, and you to
amend. And then keep on:
Are your muscles strong, out mind
dull, and feelings obtuse, work less, but
read, aud think, and feel more. In short,
exercise yonr brain more ard muscles less.
Have you too much blood, and IA tenden-
cy to %corpulency, and ar aversion to both
study and labor, cal less, and work, and
think, and study more.
But observe, that no one can change
or improve your temperament for you.
any more ttan they can eat or sleep fol
you. Nor can you purchase them, mol
can the physician give you medicines tc
change them except for the worse. Firs
study the nature and precise functions O
each temperament, and secondly the
means of changing them, and then apply
these means vigorously and you will have
it in your power 10 increase and decrease
each at pleasure. And if physicians
would apply this kind OF remedy TO a ma
jori,y OF diseases, they would often effect
surprising cures where all their medi-
cines only make their patients worse.
But if your business is of 100 pressing
a nature to allow you the proper time
and means to effect this change, 90 on as
yon are; but remember, you must find
time 20 die the sooner.
The plain fact is, that the effect Of the
habits Of men, and of The institutions Of
society, is most u~nfavorable for The pres
~ervation of this balance OF the TEN pera-
ments. The farmer, mechanic, and la
boring classes generally exercise their
muscles mainly, 10 the neglect of their
minds, if not 9S9kheir nutriliye apparatus,
whilst the inhabitants of our cllles and
villages, our merchants, book-keepers,
brokers', professional men, artists, me-
chanics of the lighter kinds Of business,
and especially our gentlemen Of leisure.
our dandies and fashionable ladies, txer.
else their nerves aud brains almost excIu-
sively, 10 the utter neglect Of their mus
Giles, meanwhile Overlooking their digest
i've organs and breathing impure air. not
10 mention their preventing the free cir
%culation of the blood at that. The form
er, and some ofthe latter, plead that they
have no time 10 cultivate their minds, and
he latter certainly have lil.Ie disposition
10 take sufficient physical exercise
Hence, in the inhabitants of our cities and
villages, Ahe mental temperament greatly
predoninates, and the vital is weak, as is
evinced by their sharp features, thin faces,
and haggard looks, whilst those of the
country and our working classes gener-
ally, have finely developed heads, with
but little cultivation, that is, they have
much natural talent, with but little acqnir-
ed learning. This explains that sickly
delicacy, that poor, scrawny, homely,
sharp-tavored, dyspeptic, and nervous
state of the body, which is so fashionable
in our cities and villages. Indeed, TO be
sickIy, and unwelI, and in delicate health,
and quite poorly, and to be troubled With
the dyspepsia, or the liver complaint, or
hntuIence, or pain in the stomach, or a
sour stomach, or indigestion, to have the
headache, or the tooth-ache,th the side-ache,
or the back-ache, to be tronbled for want
of breath, or TO have a bad cold, &c. Sc.
&C., are as indispensable 10 a fashionable,
and especially IA lady, as is tight-Iacing.
No one can be a genteel lady without
having some complaint. Good health is
a sure indication ola want of refinement.
But if mankind will violate natures laws,
they must take the consequences, and most
dearly are they paying for their whistle
of fashionable folly.