[The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig CHAPTER XXIII 1/12
WHAT THE MOON SAW AND DID Physical condition is no doubt the dominant factor in human thought and action.
State of soul is, as Doctor Schulze has observed, simply the egotistic human vanity for state of body.
If the health of the human race were better, if sickness, the latent and the revealed together, were not all but universal, human relations would be wonderfully softened, sweetened and simplified.
Indigestion, with its various ramifications, is alone responsible for most of the crimes, catastrophes and cruelties, public and private discord; for it tinges human thought and vision with pessimistic black or bloody red or envious green or degenerate yellow instead of the normal, serene and invigorating white. All the world's great public disturbers have been diseased.
As for private life, its bad of all degrees could, as to its deep-lying, originating causes, be better diagnosed by physician than by psychologist. Margaret, being in perfect physical condition, was deeply depressed for only a short time after the immediate cause of her mood ceased to be active.
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