West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-09-25
HEALTH.
Happiness Depending Almost Entirely on
Condition OF Body and Mind.

Happiness Depending Almost Entirely on
Condition OF Body and Mind.
According 20 our views Of life. health
IS the most desirable thing that apper-
tains to this present life. We so be-
lieve because man was created TO
enjoy himself. aud please his Creator.
II this wore not so we should be
obliged TO charge Deity with imperfec-
ton, in that He had no settled object in
the creation of man. Mans mental
and physical constitutions in connec-
ton with the vast creations around
him, their power TO give happiness 10
man, Is in proof that man was created
for his W pleasure on earth, as well
as for the pleasure of his Creator.
Now 9s happiness in life depends al
most entirely on the health of the body
and mind, IL behooves us to inquire
what are the peculiar conditions which
will best promote physical and mental
health. Physical health depends on
various circumstances, as the food we
eat, as to its quality and quantity; the
exposure we endure rs to heat and
cold; the exposure to miasmata, or 20
the spores of vegetable or animal life
which lodge I'm the mucus membranes,
are taken Into the circulation and null
tiply TO such an extent as to endangeT
and often destroy life. IL when
young the stomach is given double
the work hat it is able to do, il Is plain
that functional arrangement must en-
sue, and if persisted in, disease, dis
organization and death must follow.
III we Npose ourselves TO the miasmat-
ic eXhalations of swamps and sluggish
streams, we are pretty sure 20 suffer the
pains of fever and a0ue. remittent or
typhoid fevers. If we "imprudently ex-
pose ourselves 10 intense cold or wet
too long, we are in danger of acute in
Examinations in those organs most ex-
posed or from weakness the most liable
TO take on disease. 1t is through the
careful study of the causes and effects
as applicable to the human organiza-
ton that knowledge is TO be acquired
which can be made available in the
preservation of health. The action of
foreign bodies on the system taken
into the stomach, must be studied with
care, n this through anatomy and
physiology of the organs of the body.
The original intention of the Creator. as
related to the functions and powers of
the body, must be studied in connection
with those things both physical and
mental which produce an effect on them.
The experience of ages condensed in
book form, and u own critical obser-
vations added thereto, are what we have
to depend on rs a guide in the educa-
tlon of each and every organ of the
whole system.
The nice point in this education is i'm
giving just enough of legitimate food
To each organ, so that the aggre-
gated whole shall be in harmony with
itself and all its surroundings. If the
thing is over-donc bad results show
themselves, as for instance, il we teach
alimentiveness to gobble all within
reach, dyspepsia or inflammation VIII
follow attended with sulfering-if ac-
q~uisitiveness is falsely educated, the
person Is little, stingy and is very apt
to be tempted TO theft or other crime 10
crafty its greed for gold-if veneration
IS over educated, the person neglects
his business, squanders his money, be-
comes deranged, and often such es-
arrangement of mind leads to suicide.
Every organ of the brain is liable to be
falsely educated, as well as to he
wrongfully neglected. In either case
difficulty comes-eflects follow that cur
tail more or less the happiness of the
person, and hence il is evident, that to
make the most perfect man requires a
harmonious education of the whole.
We are too apt to 90 to extremes, so
much so that many of the faculties are
sadly neglected.
As a sample take the profession of
law. The lawyer is educated to make
the worse appear the better cause. He
Is taught that next to his own financial
interests are the interests of his clients.
A murderer arraigned for trial is bound
to be cleared if the lawyer can do il. 1t
matters not what the means used;
though his lawyer knows that his client
is guilty yet he uses all his finesse, all
his duplicity, all the false logic he can
command to turn the guilty one loose.
60 again imbrue his hands I'm blood.
And this exclusive and specific educa-
ton of lawyers is what has cursed this
country with upholy laws and forged
chains for the people. 1t is almost self
evident that mans happiness individu-
ally and collectively hinges on the kind
and degree of education given and
whether it be confined to few organs.
or evenly and appropriately distributed
TO all. Mothers, please do not try to
make precocious intellects or 60 educate
any given group of organs to the ex-
clusiOn of the rest Give q general diff
fused and rational education to all the
organs of mind and you will have done
n great favor to the child and a duty to
yourself and the world. n. X. SlosSOn,
IN Western Rural.