Georg Hartwig
Published: 2015-07-10
Total Pages: 184
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Excerpt from A Treatise on the Physical Education of Children When we hear of a ship striking against a rock and burying hundreds of unfortunate emigrants in a watery grave, or of the horrors of a field of battle strewn with thousands of the slain and wounded, then shipwreck and war appear to our affrighted imagination as the chief scourges of humanity; and yet, the loss of life they occasion is trifling when compared with that which results from the influence of a polluted atmosphere. For, those evils, however dreadful, exert their fury only at rare intervals, or on a comparatively narrow scene, while the numberless diseases engendered by a vitiated air are uninterruptedly active in shortening the existence of millions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
