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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    be thrown away and to end in nothing i* Is it not more conformable to analogy to suppose that the capability of such sublime meditations is conferred on us for ulterior objects, when the mind, matured in this world, shall be prepared for more exalted sensations; and if so, is it not likely also that some infallible rule should be left to guide us, and become a succedaneum to our manifold imperfections? If a rule of life be then by any means imposed on man, as a guide to his conduct, and the basis of his social improvement, the rule of philosophising would teach us to regard it as simple, comprehensive, and universal. And I believe we shall nd the great canon of Catholicism includes within its ■piritual and moral legislation, susceptible of great and erhaps of perpetual improvement, all that is requisite or this purpose. And when we consider the advanc- ng knowledge of the age that we live in—the changes oing on in morals, in literature, in science, and in umanity, aided by temperance societies and other ources of improvement, may we not hope that catholi- ity will march with the age, overcome all the corrup- ons of ignorance, and, in the sequel, bring us, by the nd of the twentieth century, to something like the bled millennium of Christian ideality. But let us the meanwhile take care to keep straight forward the sheep walks of the Bonus Pastor, or, by wander- g into the byways of private judgments, we may fall to hidden jeopardy and be lost! 2.—On Epidemic Pestilence, and on the Effect of Diet thereon. I believe every variety of pestilence is more or less the ult of specific but hidden qualities in the air of those sons and countries in which they prevail; whether :se states of atmosphere be or be not connected with 5 production of animalcula^, it is certain to me, that :y depend on an electrical agency, particularly that •St formi(lal)]e change, when the wind first getting