He however, like others, must have his assistant, and occasional substitute.
"A man in this happy era is really of no use whatever to himself.

It is a principle on which every body, that is any body, acts, that no one should do any thing for himself, if he can procure another to do it for him.

Accordingly, there is hardly the most simple performance in nature for the more easy execution of which an operator or machine of some kind' or other is not employed or invented; and a man who has had the misfortune to lose, or chuses not to use any of his limbs or senses, may meet with people ready to perform all their functions for him, from paring his nails and cutting his corns, to forming an opinion.

No man cleans his own teeth who can afford to pay a dentist; and hundreds get their livelihood by shaving the chins and combing the hair of their neighbours, though many, it must be admitted, comb their neighbour's locks for nothing.

The powers of man and the elements of nature even are set aside, the use of limbs and air being both superseded by steam; in short, every thing is done by proxy--death not excepted, for we are told that our soldiers and sailors die for us.