[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
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In the sensibility and the sanctity which often accompany premature decay I see one of the most beautiful instances of the principle of compensation which marks the Divine benevolence.

But to get the spiritual hygiene of robust natures out of the exceptional regimen of invalids is just simply what we Professors call "bad practice"; and I know by experience that there are worthy people who not only try it on their own children, but actually force it on those of their neighbors.
-- Having been photographed, and stereographed, and chromatographed, or done in colors, it only remained to be phrenologized.

A polite note from Messrs.

Bumpus and Crane, requesting our attendance at their Physiological Emporium, was too tempting to be resisted.

We repaired to that scientific Golgotha.
Messrs.


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