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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. THE PROGRESS OF CIVILISATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HEALTH. THE ROMANS AND THE BARBARIANS HABITS AND HEALTH OF SAVAGES WHAT IS PROGRESS IN CIVILISATION? HABITS OF THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE HABITS OF THE ENGLISH IN FORMER TIMES PROGRESS OF HABITS IN SCOTLAND?DISEASES THAT HAVE DISAPPEARED IN THE PROGRESS OF CIVILISATION EVILS OF PART OF THE POPULATION BEING LEFT IN BARBARISM WHILE THE OTHER IS ELEVATED ABOVE IT. THE ROMANS AND THE BARBARIANS. The most satisfactory evidence of the beneficial effect of removing noxious agencies, is in the extent to which they have already been beneficially removed from one considerable portion at all events of the population of modern times. Among ancient nations the Romans appear to have been fastidiously clean, both in their persons and their dwellings; and we may easily believe that among the horrors to which they were exposed in the inroads of the barbarians, not the least loathsome must have been the barbarous and revolting personal habits of their masters. In modern Europe, we are accustomed to hear the tone of haughty fastidiousness vent itself on the calamity of coming in contact with barbarous but subjected classes, the aboriginal natives of distant dependencies; but for those accustomed to the purity and nicety of a high state of civilisation to come under the rod and mastership of filthy barbarians, was so rare a fate in the later history of Europe, that the experience of it must have been almost limited to the few victims of the piratical cruisers of the Levant. From the darkest ages after the fall of Rome down to the present time, the upper classes of society seem to have made a pretty steady progress onwards in the practice of sanitary precautions? a practice founded more on the gradual acquisition of f...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217551229 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021755122X |
| Weight | 0.47 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.32 In |
| List Price | $23.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 136 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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