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Excerpt from Evils of Violating the Laws of Health, and the Remedy: An Address, Delivered Before the American Physiological Society at Their Monthly Meeting, February 7, 1838
Excitement. What is to be expected from the gen eral mass Of intellect, unless it can be awakened to thought, as well as feeling? The foundations must be broken up, and the dead quickened into life. The American revolution did much for the world; and the Operations Of our free institutions are favor able to the brightest hopes of the philanthropist and Christian. The lowest ranks of society, under their benign in?uence, are in motion, and begin to feel their strength and capacity to rise. They are strugi gling under the mighty burdens, which have pressed upon them for ages, and, like a giant conscious Of his power, will cast them Off and take the rank which belongs to them in the scale Of being. Are people alarmed in View Of this? Their fears will not retard the upward movement Ofthe heaving mass. Vain are all their attempts to keep it down. Riches cannot monopolize all privileges for a favored few. Knowledge is no longer confined to a small number, supposed to be born under a particular planet. But, like the sun, knowledge is shedding its enlivening in?uences upon the lowest, as well as the highest. The established habits of subserviency to superior rank, station and wealth and Of veneration for things because they are Old and Of receiving Opinions and dogmas upon trust; are passing away. People will look for themselves, and examine into the merits Of individuals, and weigh the truth of Opinions, and decide even upon doctrines, which have passed cur rent for ages.
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