The weekly Butte record., 1863-06-27
The Morality OF the Human Stomach.

he cause Of mor2hty Is more dependent
upon the bodily health than many politicians,
moralists and diviaes seem ready to beheve2
Bonaparie used to attribute the loss OF ono
Of his battles 10 bad dinner which had dis
turbed his digestion; and We are disposed to
thiuk the cause quite adequate TO that effect.
II a mans stomach is out of order. 50. BY con-
sequence, must be his brain, and be is not
himself either in heart or head. Go to the
exhibition of paintings with woman suffering
with neuralgia, or ask charitable subscrip-
tiou from 4 man with the eelic, and you will
see at once the truth of our observation.
In the painting of cd moakish times, you
invariably find the pious and godly man de-
picted with pale, thiu ghosty face ; while
all the blackguards and idola;ors, fine, big,
uSiy men, efervescing With animal health and
spirits We all know what sort Of religion it
was that co existed with this a,rocious theory
as to the relation of physical and spiritual
health
If the muscular Christianity of our day
tends TO fly into an extreme it is in the recoh
I from still worse extreme. We do not say
that Mr.. klnkSley is a better Christian be-
cause be is a fox hunter, but we have 10 doubt
1 that his Christianity owes much Of lis buoy
ancy 10 bis robust aud vigorous constitution
and, much as We dissent from many Of Mr..
/ kiugsey's tenets we think his faith iucompara.
bly, more Christian than that of the Auchorl,es,
which led Simeon Styli,es to pine away for
thirty years on the top of columD. and ST.
I Dunstan to shut himself up in cell five feet
long, hoggiug himself by day, aud singing
psalms in cold water during the winter nights
The fact is, that bodily suffering and disease.
acting on nature already depraved. is one of
the most prolific sources of evil and it is
1 probable that half the hercsies, false phi
losophers, suicides, murders aud treaeberies
that we read and hear of were dependent more
/ or less directly on the state Of the stomach. 1t
seems very carnaI view Of the matter but it
is not the less just.
! A most important principle in moral pbiloso-
ply is limited at in the words which Shakespeare
z EhtS III tiie tHuutl Nt'>Af
" Let me have men about me that are TAT:
Slick headed men and such as sleep o'nghts;
Yond' Cassus has lean and hungry look;
/ He thinks too mnch-such men are dangerous"
! Old Samuel johnson said, that every man
was rascal when he was sick" and greater
man than johnson said to Timothy, Use
little wine for thy stomachs sake and thine
often iufrmities :" and we have no doubt that
I Paul gave that advice because he knew that,
if Timothy's digestion was impaired, he would
I be less able than otherwise to Withstand the
seductive influence Of Greek philosophy, and To-
/ fight the good eight of faith Men are prone
enough to sin at the best. aud they can in
bear to have the strength of =" the old man "
augmented by the eorrupting tendencies of
disease. Is it not notorious fact that so trr
( fling a thing as a cold in the nose will often
convert the most amiable men into public
nuisance? A man kindly and generous when
in health has only TO overload bis stomach and
/ forthwith his liver is affected then his brain.
/ His sensibities are deadened his uneasiness-
makes him fretful his fretfulness is couta-
/ gious and in these circumstances he will say
/ and do things from which in health he would
/ have recoiled. There is quite as much truth
as humor in Sydney Smiths remark that old
/ friendships are often destroyed by toasted
cheese and that hard salted meat has lead to,
suicide"
I Health has much more to do with godliness
than usual to be supposed. OF course, health
is not in itself piety, nor can it ever engender
( piety; but it is a condition very favorable TO
/ it-sometimes, perhaps essential. Hence, all
1 innocent amusements that serve to exhilerate.
and all innocent games and exercises that tend
I to invigorate man, deserve the most cordial
encouragement from all who desire the social
and spiritual elevation of the people. The
volunteer drill may be doing as much for
healthy religion, in an indirect way, as tract
society.
/ We are told that David was ruddy and OF
/ beautiful countenance, and we believe that his
| personal courage and faith in God were all the
stronger because of the bodily vigor indicated
By bis face. A man loves better, prays bet.
ter, and reasons better, in health than 10 sick
ness. A climb up bill warns mans heart
while it braces his nerves and good game
of cricket does far more to strengthen ones.
moral principles than lecture in moral phi
losophy.-I Ladies Standard, Scotland
AN ExPLos1vE-The French navy has.
found an explosive which goes through any
iron plate, however thick, and produces an ex-
ploson sufficient to blow up a vessel of The
size of the Monitors. 1t is obvious that the
rebels at Charleston had DO knowledge of it ;
for most of their shots were solid, and had not
that strength of impulse peculiar to the newly
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