Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician.

  • Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Date:
1832
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Credit: Medicina simplex, or, The pilgrims waybook, being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a healthy life and happy old age : with household prescriptions / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    artist's pencil, and the painter's colours, were all made subservient to the holy cause, and it was at that period that the great ages of the arts severally took place, and the finest schools were formed. But there is also this great consolation in works of art and science so employed, that while the oldest man is enjoying their effect on his senses, he scarcely feels regret at so soou parting from them; because they rouse in his mind the most powerful images, by as- sociation, of much higher orders of pleasure which await him. Thus may the very circle of sciences which delight the energetic minds of Youth be converted into a founda- tion for the calm pleasures of Age. It seems to me that astronomy, and all the great sciences, admit of the same application. Wetlj are taught in philosophy to regard the Cre ator as a boundless Ocean of creative Intelli gence, whence all beings spring and to whom they all return ; and, as far as the sciencQS^ are concerned, the making them all appea dages to a union of Faith, Hope, and Cha-' rity, like rays of light round a common aff^ centre, is the best mode of resolving every «|^^| thing into Deity, because it teaches us to J reg-ard GOD in all things. '^'^'nd fill] I kk