Earnest Hours

Excerpt from Earnest Hours

In both the body and soul of man are easily discovered many surprising powers. In the human constitution is something exceedingly nice, curious and delicate. In a heathful state, both mind and body are admirable; in a morbid state, they bring incalculable misery.

Let us look at man's physical constitution. At birth the human body is small, commonly weighing from eight to fifteen pounds, and measuring from thirteen to twenty-one inches. It is exceedingly feeble, and continues dependent on parental care much longer than any other creature. For sometime it can neither see, nor hear, nor taste, nor smell, nor feel with any accuracy of discrimination, its senses being quite untutored. At the age of about six weeks it begins to notice the face of its nurse or mother, and gives its first smiles. Feeble as this little creature is, its powers of endurance are, in one respect, wonderful.

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