Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-05-03
self, are loaded with spiritual tinctures IN.

fiji for respiration. .....-.
| Every hour, every exertion, everv
Thought, is taxed, heavily taxed, by the
idea of the necessity of providing for the
daily wants. We say by 1.-The idea' :;
for the reality is not so pressing. To the
cruel domination Of this idea, mems thot's
and tempers and whole lives are waste
| fully sacrificed. f..
Temper is affected 10 twofold manner.
1t is first injured 10 the process of provid-
ing, and second Y In the results of consum-
ing. How much OF good order, of good
sense, of good feeling has to be Iacerated
that the provision may be earned. The
family mast be provided for business must
be attended to: the bread mast be earned"
are sentiments which one finds inculcated,
generation alter generation, both Ia lands
sterile By nature and where Gods ex-
haustieSs bountles oyerspread the earth.
And these texts are Interpreted into end
less dIscourses, which bind mankind ever
to the wheel of drudgery and vexatiou.
NO station IN society, no opinions in phi
iosophy, no creedS in religion, seem to
have the power of eXemptng men from
this law. Every where eternal providence
is spoken of; no where does it appaa: to
be really believed. But perhaps here we
mistake. There may be foil, actual re-
lance ln every heart for the providence of
all our real temporal wants free from anx-
Iety; but ever one is aware tha: his wants
are not thus divinely bounded They are
stretched beyond reality into convention
oyoI 4 II 4 Hc
to bring them back again. 1t looks like
punishment and restraint TO become sim
pie after having been complicated 1t is
un9racious and ungraleiul 10 the feeling
to forego these additions to social life.
1T is falling back into barbarsm,"
exclaims the civic victim, and life without
such complexities he cannot perceive to
have any value. ....
In these false notions Of necessity how
much human good temper is destroyed
No one has leisure or caImnesS TO out,
think one single idea, but his thread of
sentiment is severed at the commencement
by this ghost, this spirit of pressing me- &.
cessitY, which is said to be coming after
US with giant strides to devour all we can
gather, and even then to be unappeased.
1t is time that reason rose up TO allay this
ghost Of lust. ~. =.:
The husband must apply himself, body
and mind to business, for len hours dav,
the wife is occupied no less with her cook
ing and cleaning, the children aust be
sent to hireling school, every chance for
improvement is annihilated, every true
aim in life is set aside upon this unwise
pretext, originated ia lost and maintained
by slavery and passion, All the holy in
stnctS are thus suppressed, ard then their
suppression is adduced as a proof that
they do not exist. For the results of this
hard earnt providence are no less disas-
trous than its origin,
When this costly provision has been
made, most costly as it is in the highest
coin Of human being, its distribution and
enjoyment are fresh sources OF coslliuess
to human happiness. Mans blood is rails
ed 10 fever heat in collecting the fuel
which keeps his fluids at that point No
observer can doubt the sad effects of mod.
ern diet upon The feelings and temper. 1t
is wholly impossible that any consiGerate
mind can set down as an unimporlant fact
the question of quality and quantity of our
solid food. Ia respect TO liquids, the law
o. our relative dependence Oh their purity
or lnpurlty has never been denied; aud il
is only by the commonneSS OF lis use that
the impurity Of animal and other exciting
solids is doubted.
Gould we tor moment Suppose whole
nation OF drunkards, it is obvious they
would be very liable TO remain in their
bestlalty until some stranger from sober
land arrived amongst them. And really
such phenomenon, either with respectto
alcohol, tobacco, or opium, is not so dis
tant as some innocent persons may imag-
inc. But let this supposed impossibiity
be granted, how is it possible such peo-
pie could become conscious oftheir deg
radiation except By ceasing the habit. In
the daily indulgence in bad language, in
ebrIate thoughts, obscene Sentiment with
no one to point them out, no comparison
of better life, how could amendment
creep ia +? @..... .~.. .-... .~ p. ..... 49,"
/ This may be deemed ar ungentle and
an unfair comparison. But fit holds not
In all particulars, it does 10 many, and we
-! shall not willingly place the decision on
any other ground than open and candid
trial. ltseems IS absurd to permit flesh.
eater TO pronounce on the propriety Of a
bloody diet, as to allow the topper TO deter
} mine the goodness of his drains. Mo-
withstandiug all the joyous baechanalian-
ism Of the drunkard no sober mao suffers
himseflo be seduced into ntem2erance !;
for ne has made The experiment of sobrie-
ty, ana has the testimony of all sane minds
on his side. #-.. ~. =. -
: The experiment Of pure diet when eff,
fected IN proper conditions is no less evil
dent, and is even of deeper value. Its re-
; suits upon both the intellectual and sym