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Excerpt from Psychologic Attraction, Fascination, or the Science of the Soul: As Applied to the Purposes of Life, With Full Instructions to Exert the Influence Upon the Human Mind as Well as the Brute Creation
What must it be to one like you or me, who have advanced beyond the middle period of life, without having had any experience of it i This is no speculative inquiry it may be answered. From actual observation. Not a few persons Who abandon their employments under the impression that they will be happy in doing so, actually die of ennui. It induces bodil y dis ease more than physical or mental labor. Others, indeed, survive the ordeal. But, where the body does not suffer, the mind often does. I have known instances of persons whose habits have been suddenly changed from those of great activity to those of no employment at all, who have been for a time in a state of, mental excitement or hypochondriasis, border ing on mental aberration. Moreover, it is with the mind as it is with the body - it is spoiled from want of use; and the clever and intelli gent young man, who sits down to lead what is called a life of leisure, invariably becomes a stupid old man.
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