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stances the chief trait OF character; and we
look in vain for these peculiar sensibiitles
which are distinguished marks of intellect
ual excellence. Such people are never IL
able to mental alienation or dependency
strong in themselves, they only yield to
those acute or inhammatory diseases which
ovcrpower the tension of the animal fibre
and bring them suddenly on the bed OF SICK
ness. In health they eat and drank ana
sweetlv sleep away their grief. Two thirds
of mankind, in civilized nations, are OF this
happy temperament; the class OF crying
philosophers. therefore, bears no adequate
proportion to those who laugh away all care.


Every station in society is attended with
certain responsibilities, for which the per-
sonal character of the individual is held IN
public pledge; and the never ending per-
plexitics arising out of an extensive ac'
quaintance, when some unforeseen misfortune
occurs, involving the pride of a lofty spirit,
sink it with wotul preponderance to the
lowest alb, SIS of misery. One signs over the
memory of beloved wife; another shuns
the worlds stare, and grieves for the loss ot
that wealth which once made him many
| friends-he learns too late, the evanescent
charms of guided friendship. and there
sober pcnsoner of sorrow steals through the
silent grove, and she seems to gaze on some
object in the sky, the falling tears in quick
succession roll, and tell tale OF pity-that
she is left to nurse a secret that almost
bursts her heart.


10 such causes, the physician NAV trace


a long catalogue of those chronic affections


which are becoming more common in thost


circles where there is progressive retine'


ment: and in the proud march OF society


there will, in all successive ages, follow II


it's train powerful troop of secret working


rnlseries. Hypochondriasis is the etfeci Q


an imaginary evil, and is, in itself, totally
distinct from those affections of a harmless
mind, feeding in grief and solitude upon
feeble, trembling careworn frame.


/, Low spirits, which have foundation II
realities, and which are nourished by
f painful recollection of some past even


should never be the butt of raillery; TIN


in medical practitioner, hetrays the mean


est kind of breeding, and should exciud


him from the privileges of men OF science
To feel another's woe--to sympathlse wit
those who need no other cordial than sympa
t thy and kindness--is noble, generous, an
S doubly valued in the man who knows ho'
4 consolation should be given, when he give
out prescriptions for wandering III engcf
dered in the mind.