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The sick chamber is the place where the most angelic virtues of the human race have ever been called into action.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
It has been among the visions of some dreaming philosophers that human life is capable of almost indefinite extension. The great Condorcet was one of these.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
Indifference to life and indifference to the purity and amenity that sweeten existence must necessarily go together.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
The facts, indeed, connected with this gloomy department of statistics show that the most valuable period of human life—that in which a man is producing more than he is consuming—is that which provides the greatest number of victims.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
Abstract perfection should always be the direction aimed at by human efforts, however imperfect they may be; and the success of sanitary legislation will be indicated by the nearness or the distance of its actual practice from this perfect idea.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
The rise of each generation gives new ties towards the future, which insensibly dissolves those which bind us to the past; and the natural old age of the human race seems to have adjusted itself to that period beyond which the human being would feel isolated and desolate in the midst of the new objects of attachment which the progress of time brings into existence.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
The great men of antiquity—Cato, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, and Otho—forgot that they had obligations to their race as well as to themselves, when, in the selfish spirit of a pagan philosophy, they considered themselves entitled to put an end to their existence, and remove themselves from the world.
Sanitary Economy (1850)