Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-01-31
Children. with drums

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Children. with drums
Strapped round them by the fond paternsl ass
Peripatetc with blade Of graas
Between Their thumbs. -
OF course be accuses his nerves. Every other
man in tbs civilized world is doing the same in.
justice TO those long -siuinbering and naenable
frierds Matthew Browne did an act of phiian-
throphy, year or two since, when he wrote
" An Apology for~she Nerves" II should be
called defence, rather than an apology. The
nerves on that occasion had no hunliasing con.
fessians 70 make. but cain, logical evidence to
show, touching their right 10 deeper respect and
a more elevated place in society. IT, he says
there /. without Nerve no Thought fand 40 scien.
tnc men assure usl We can hardly have too much
ofthe Nerves. unless Thought itself is objected
-. The writer then proceeds in a lawyer-like
manner to state the clsims Of his clients lie
observes tha, the nerves are the objects OF sys-
tematie enmity and depreciation among mankind
at large; he exposes the ignorance aud wanton.
ness ofthis. The fat man. he justly complains.
is tolerated loved, or, at wortt, ouly laughed st
but the nervous man, the man with nerve, Is MOI
only laughed al, but disliked and derlded YET
the English natien. according to Mr.. browne,
would not trnst its income with mn obese man
Thus il is with nervous men we trust our money
they are in fact the men for our money, and i,
is from them We expect all that makes money
worth having. In short, II is tho nervous man
who thi ke nvents. and b. flds, writes books,
ngbfs battles, and, by the Tree exercise of his
powers. creates those comforts and blessings
which are grunblingiy enjoyed by the man wish
out eryc.
And yet these admirable nerves which do
everything worth doing held respon slble for
half the unpleasantness Of life. Our ability il
considered in the light OF disease. aud lament
ed and doctored literally doctored.
That the majority Of pe9plc regard their
noryes things TO be tanned and held in con
trcl, is made manifest by m entertaining cireu-
lar Of DIR. Turner, in which are found several
letters from gentlemen we'll known in the medi-
cal, legal and other professions, acknowledging
that they hare successfully csmbated with their
nerves, and speaking Of DR.. Turner's Universal
Neuralgia Pill with the same ardor TINT mill.
tary man wosil discuss newly invented soni-
cal steel shot, or = peculiarly ef6eacieus mimic
ball! Perhaps. indeed, these gentlemen psre
over brrdened with nerves; for it 10 possible to
| have 100 much Of good thing. Too much
thought, strictly speaking. too much nerve, has
before now. led TO the saddest results. Dr.
Turner'S essay furnishes us with some notable
examples: "Swift dying in moody nanis !"
Sir Isaac Newton with intellect temporarily
shattered; = johnson oppressed by thick som-
ing fAncies." But then these arc exceptions a
cases. and therc is no saying what the resul,
might have been, could they hnee avaled them
selves ofthe recent disoovsriesM pharm &C eolosy.
In the mean while no reasonable person win
look upon Dir. Brownies "Apolog. for tho
Nerves" ~ either untimsly or injuiicious.--
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