The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-11-16
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81. too, am not at all clever, and l
can assure you that it makes no differ
ence in life"
The Doctors view was naturally diff
ferent. That gentleman never wearied
of the sound of his own voice, which
was, to say the truth, agreeable enough
to hear. He now had a listener, who
was not so cynically Indifferent as An
~astasie, and who sometimes put him
on his nettle by the most relevant OBJ
jections. Besides, was he not educat-
ing the boy? And education, philoso-
pliers r agreed, is the most philosoph-
ical of duties. What can be o
heavenly to poor mankind than to have
ones hobby grow into a duty to the
State? Then, indeed, do the ways of
Life become ways of pleasantness. New
er had the Doctor seen reason to be
more content with his endowments.
Philosophy flowed smoothly from his
lips. He was SO agile a ~dialectician
that he could trace his nonsense, when
challenged, back to some root in
sense, and prove it to be a sort of flower
upon his system. He slipped out of an
timonies like a fish, and left his disci-
pie m~arveling at the rabbits depth.
Moreover, deep down in his heart the
Doctor was disappointed with the ILL
success of his more formal education.
A boy, chosen by SO acute an observer
for his aptitude, and guided along the
path of learning by so phflosophic an
instructor, was bound, by the nature
of the universe, to make a more obvious
and lasting advance. Now Jean-Marie
was slow in all things, im~penetrable in
others; and his power of forgetting
was fully ON a level with his power to
learn. Therefore the Doctor cherished
his peripatetic lectures, to which the
boy attended, which he generally ap-
peared to enjoy, and by which he often
profited.
"I lead you," he would say, "by the
green pastures. My system, my beliefs,
my medicines, are resumed in one
phrase-to avoid excess. Blessed ma
ture, healthy, temperate nature, abhors
and exterminates excess. Human law,
in this matter, initiates at a great dis
lance her provisions; and we must
strive to supplement the efforts of the
law. Yes, boy, we must be a law to
ourselves and for null neighbors-lex
armata-armed, emphatic, tyrannOus
law. If rou see a crapulous human
TIIip rIIffioor 1och him fnnO1 hic howl
The judge, though in a way an admis-
sion of disease, is less offensive to me
than either the doctor or the priest.
Above all the doc. or-the doctor and
the purulent trash and garbage of his
pharmacopoeia! Pure air-from the
sake of the observation-disclosures
wine, and the reflections of an unso-
phisticated spirit in the presence of
the works of ~nature-these, my boy, are
the best medical appliances and the
best religious comforts. Devote your
self to these. Hank! there are bells of
Bourron (the wi I'd is in the north, it
will be fair). How clear and airy is the
sound! The nerves are harmonized
and quieted; the mind attuned to ST.
lence; and observe how easily and reg
ularly beats the 1eart! Your unen-
lightened doctor would e nothing in
these sensations; an yet you yourself
perceive they r e a part of health
Did you remember your cinchona this
morning? Good. Cinchona also is g
work of nature; it is, after all, only
the bark of a tree which we might
gather for ourselves if we live in the
locality.-What a world is this
Though a ~professed atheist, I delight tc
bear my testimony to the world. Lool
at THE gratuitous remedies and pleas.
ures that surround our path! The river
runs by the garden end, our bath, oul
fishpond, our natural system of drain
age. There is a we'll in the court which
sends up sparkling water from tht
earth's very heart, clean, cool, and
with a little wine, most wholesome
The district is notorious for salubrity
rheumatism is the only prevalent com
plant, and I myself have never had
touch of it. I tell you-and my opinion
is based upon the coolest, clearest proc
esses of reason-if I, if you, desired t.
leave this home of pleasures, it woul'
be the duty, it would be the privilege
of our best friend to prevent us with
pistol bullet"