This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...ultimately developed, and swept him to an early grave, but for which even worse consequences were likely to have befallen him. Men like Humboldt, Brougham, Mansfield, Binney, Blumenbach, Greeley, Franklin, and Seward; and women like Hannah More, Martineau, Lennox, and Stowe, are unusual productions of any ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...ultimately developed, and swept him to an early grave, but for which even worse consequences were likely to have befallen him. Men like Humboldt, Brougham, Mansfield, Binney, Blumenbach, Greeley, Franklin, and Seward; and women like Hannah More, Martineau, Lennox, and Stowe, are unusual productions of any country. They seem to be independent of the ordinary laws of mentality; and it is manifestly unsafe to adopt their mental habits as rules for smaller and more feebly endowed men and women to follow. Winslow's Body and Mind, p. 155. The Principles of Physiology, p. 235. The scholarly man is usually associated with sallow complexions, spectacles, moroseness, pointed noses, thin legs, and wasted frames, and unsocial, diffident, and awkward manners. In this picture of the student Burton must have had in his mind the studious monk and ascetic of the Middle Ages: " Hard students are commonly troubled with gouts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexias, bradyspepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are most part lean, dry, ill-colored... and all through immoderate pains and extraordinary studies. If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquinas's works; and tell me whether those men took pains." The propriety of this association, however just as regards the physical characteristics of religious ascetics and theological promulgators of ancient times, is not sustained by the lives and characters of modern students and thinkers. Diversity of studies, generous nutrition, and society obviate in the modern the physical disabilities which formed so large a part of the experience of the earlier student, so forcibly described by...
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