On the weak
and aged, and especially on delicate Females, the force of attraction
tells much more heavily than on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it
is a point of breeding, if you meet a Lady ont he street, always to
give her the North side of the way -- by no means an easy thing to do
always at short notice when you are in rude health and in a climate
where it is difficult to tell your North from your South.
Windows there are none in our houses: for the light comes to us
alike in our homes and out of them, by day and by night, equally at
all times and in all places, whence we know not. It was in old days,
with our learned men, an interesting and oft-investigate question,
"What is the origin of light?" and the solution of it has been
repeatedly attempted, with no other result than to crowd our lunatic
asylums with the would-be solvers. Hence, after fruitless attempts to
suppress such investigations indirectly by making them liable to a
heavy tax, the Legislature, in comparatively recent times, absolutely
prohibited them.
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