The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-04-13
nEcIINE OF MANHOOD

} feet state of health has died aat from among
men. We are wonted t.. he presence o
debility and pain. Relglo,i9 men teach u,
to accept weakness aud su ering us the ap
pointed lot of humanity. s.ence, the condi
ton of health ard Longevity are not merel,
disregar ed, but ignored, md men of pro
foundest learning On other subjects are here
ignorant of elements. University professors
know how To take care of the solar system
but do not know how 10 take care of their
own systems. admire the rules of prosody
by which Greek and Latin verse flow into
harmonious numbers; but prefer the tune
ful pulse which never makes an elison, to
any music of classical scanning. once
knew n professor of rhetoric in an American
College, who choked himself to death at u
dinner party with an undivided piece of nut
ton. He knew to II semitpne the rhetorical
proportions in which b-eaLi should be sent
out of the lungs, but Was i.norant of the
physiological quantities in which food should
be taken into the stomach. Clergymen are
forever exhorting MS to keep our spirits clean
and pure, and then, in their outer man. they
exrmpfy their teachings by all the deiile-
menls of tobacco. They are Boanerges for
the advancement of their own sect; but dis
dain compani"nship with that sect of the
Nazerites who drink no wine. Statesmen
and learned doctors debate and discuss the
minor questions of political economy; but
forget that blight on public health is more
pecuninrily disastrous than mdrwed crops,
and that the most adverse balances of trade
are less mp0verishing than the expenditures
nf sickness, the n-prodnctveness Of bodi.
" imbecility, and the costs of vice and
crime.
| hold it to be morally impossible for God
to have created in the. beginning, such men
and women us we find the human race, in
their physical condition, now to be. Exam.
inc the book of Genesis, which contains the
earliest annals of the human family. 1t is
supposed to comprise the first twenty.three
hundred and siXty-nine years OF history
| With child-like simplicity, this book describes
the infancy of mankind. Unlike modern his
tories, it details the mnutest circumstances
Of social life. Indeed il is rather series OF
biographies than history. The false deli.
cacy of modern times did not forbid the mem
ton of whatever was done or suffered. And
yet over all that eXpanse of time-for more
than one-third part of the duration Of the
human racr-not single instance is record
ed Of a child oorn blind, or deaf, or dumb, or
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