The South Staffordshire Examiner. — 1874-10-24 (Wednesbury, West Midlands, England)

CLEANLINESS AND HEALTH. THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY READING DR. LYON PLAYFAIR S ADDRESS.  Two important addresses have been delivered lately. One was spoken at Belfast before the British Associatitta, by Professor Tyndall, a man of splendid power, upon the probable physical origin of life and mind, in which, after tracing matter through every conceivable state and condition, until it has disappeared entirely and nothing left but a form of thought, the Professor returns to say that what he looked for htus completely escaped him. And after all has been granted, matter and its motion, with the " field of space and track of time' for operation, yet no adaptation, no development, no evolution, is possible until the ethereal element of life is introduced from heaven upon the plane of infinite operation.  The other address was given before the Social Science Corigrjes, in Glasgow, by Dr. Lyon Play fair, upon a subject of much greater importance to all, but the few who are given to occult and metaphysical thought. The subject was upcn bow much health depends upon the law of cleanliness. The breadth and depth of the subjeet cannot be easily over-rated, and cannot be too much thought upon.. The idea of health embracas so much, not alone ititysical strength, but mental and moral strength, it end roes all that is in real or true heroism—a fine taote. for all that is truly enjoyable, and a proper balance of all the organic functions. The senses are all keen anti unperverted. Proper food alone gives pleasure; in fact, health means a pure and completely harmonious action between all the bodily functions and the surrounding circumstances. Instead of saying health depends upon cleanliness, I would say health is cleanliness; ecery form of filth is disease in some form or ether.  A healthy body cannot breathe at ease in an air thick with impurity either physically or morally. What do the words quoted by Dr. Lyon Play. fair, "sash, and be dean," imply, Physically? They mean a clean house, a clean body, and a clean mind.  A clean house is one in which pure air circulates freely in every room by night and day. "Fre,ll air is an element of health, manners, and morals." "To lice without it is slow suicide—to deprive others of it approximates to homicide:' To breath unclean air is to vitiate the blood, and that produces in uhid and diseased states of body, and by the action of poisonous blood upon the brain, it induces weak and worthless conditions of mind. In 'dean house everything is removed that would give off impure odour of any kind, or that would X 1 any way effect a refined taste for fitness.  What vast fields are now open to the whole of mankind. Schaals of Science, where God's my. teries are made known; lind Art in all its yastne,s of refinement and beauty is taught. Wften ye think of, music, of painting, and of science, and of the infinity of beauty in field, in mountain, sea, and sky, what healthy mind in a healthy body can find an excuse for wasted energy in one or other of the hundred traps in t'Ae shape of gin or to c lit o shops, with all their gaudy trappings, a. Cg the weak and feeble in mind away fur. User i health P - _  Much might be said in detail here, but space will THE PROPOSED REDUCTION OF not allow it. Especially allesion might be made