The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings.

  • Jennings, Isaac, active 1847-1860.
Date:
1867
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Credit: The tree of life, or, Human degeneracy : its nature and remedy, as based on the elevating principle of orthopathy / by Isaac Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that now so universally prevail in all communities, and which effectually bar the human soul to those kindly influences that are essential to the growth and perfection of both body and spirit, would flee away. A little speculative confidence in God and common humanity to start with—leaving feelings to take care of themselves—would, after a while, demonstrate that a tithe of the care and labor now everywhere thought to be necessary to subsist society, with all the degradation and wretchedness inseparably connected therewith, would be sufficient to furnish all the means and conditions of confirmed health, long life, and perfect happiness.