Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene

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Excerpt from Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: With Special Reference to the Effects of Stimulants and Narcotics, for Use in Primary and Intermediate Schools There is a beautiful allegory upon human life, by Addi son, called The Vision of Mirzah. Mirzah, who had ascended the hills of Bagdad to spend a day in quiet meditation, says, And behold as I sat there, I heard a sound as of sweet mu sic, and looking up I saw a genius clad in shepherd's gar ments, who beckoned me and said, I have heard thy musings on the life of man, ' and he commanded me to look eastward. I did so and beheld a great valley with a foaming tide rushing through it. Spanning it was a bridge, composed of three score-and-ten arches, which, added to some broken ones near one end, made up the number to nearly one hundred. At either end was a thick mist. I turned to the genius in sur prise. 'what does this mean I asked. Then he told me that the mist was the mist of eternity, and the bridge, the bridge of life. And as I looked I noticed many people passing over it, and also that there were numer ous trap-doors in the bridge, more numerous at the ends than in the middle, which opened as they were stepped upon, and let the people fall through into the rushing tide beneath, which bore them quickly away into the mist. I noticed some of the people pushing others on trap-doors that they other wise would not have trodden on, and also that many others were busy in the pursuit of bubbles which broke almost as soon as they grasped them. I noticed that very few got past the middle part of the bridge, though some did keep up a kind of hobbling march through the broken arches, though they looked tired and weary from the long walk. This allegory is unfortunately true, and few people who are born into the world live past middle life, and such are apt to be less strong and well than in youth. Very many die when they are little children of diseases or accidents which are the trap-doors of the vision. Others are pushed through, which means that they are killed in battle or starved by the greediness of others, or that they are led by their companions on the dangerous trap-door of drink, which every year opens for more people to drop through than are killed in all the bat tles all over the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.