The mother and her offspring / By Stephen Tracy, M.D.

  • Tracy, Stephen
Date:
1867 [©1853]
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Credit: The mother and her offspring / By Stephen Tracy, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    charge of general inferiority brought against them as altogether and entirely unjust. Surely no sane mind would think of claiming for the rough and sturdy oak superiority to the graceful elm, or to the symmetrical, the beautiful maple, with its delicious sweet, and its delightfully refreshing shade. The youth looks forward with hopeful and aspiring anticipations to the time when he shall be released from the peculiar obligations resting upon him during the time of his minority, and engage for himself in the duties and responsibilities of adult age. But no soon- er has he left the parental home of his childhood, the guiding counsel of his father, and the fond embraces of his mother, than he is made to feel most sensibly, and often most keenly, that he is alone in this hope- ful, joyful, happy, busy, tiresome, fatiguing, perplexing, and selfish world. He goes forth to his labors in the morning with cheer- fulness and pleasure ; he labors with his might till the declining sun gives notice that the toils of the day should cease, and he returns wearied and fatigued to his rest. Again and again he rises to his labors in the morning, and returns to his room at the close of day. The wants of his physical nature are all supplied, but his observa- tion of n] ankind has convinced him that all seek their own—that there is not one in all his circle of acquaint- ances whose interests are identical with his. Even his