The Medical Standard Volume 42, No. 3 (Paperback)

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. 1919 Excerpt: ...eyes of man and shame his spirit with the gentle contemplation of their own. - Gladness is this power to live in the present: to make the moment rich either with work or contemplation. To dwell on the care and vicissitudes of life is to court sorrow, misery, despondency and death. The mind that considers too closely the evils of the werld comes finally to partake of the character of those evils. They live in him; possess him and color all things to correspond with their own depressing hues. Gazing on the dark side of life the mind loses its power to live and to work in the light. The sun is the source of all life. It pours out its love on everything, good, bad or indifferent. It does not wait to be asked. Neither does it debate whether one section of the earth requires less or more sunshine. It simply shines and everything in the world must prepare to absorb the rays of the sun, or be destroyed by them. To hide in a cellar will not bring health or comfort on a hot day. The happiest man is he who braves the heat, toils and sweats through the day. Mental sunshine is almost as essential for our physical well-being as is the magic energy of the sun's rays. The sunlight is sometimes hidden by impenetrable clouds, and during a part of every twenty-four hours the whole world is shrouded in the darkness of night; but mental and moral sunshine may be always present, for, ' In ourselves the sunshine dwells; In ourselves the music swells. A certain eastern governor who in his youth had been a shepherd and whom good fortune had raised to a high position, prepared in his palace a room in which were displayed the simple garments and implements which belonged to his humble shepherd life. At regular intervals the governor retired to this room, and for an hour co...