STEELE ADDISON 209. Simonides' Satire on Women 211. Transmigration of Souls-Letters on ADDISON ... STEELE ADDISON ADDISON ......... STEELE ADDISON Her Hymn to Venus ............... AM. PHILLIPS 226. On Raphael's Cartoons STEELE .......... ADDISON 227. Letter on the Lover's Leap 230. Benevolent Disposition-Letter of STEELE HUGHES STEELE BUDGELL 232. Sir Andrew Freeport's Opinion of Beggars STEELE 236. Letters on cruel Husbands-on im- 239. Various Ways of managing a Debate ADDISON 240. Grateful Letter on heroic Virtue- 241. Letter on the Absence of Lovers- 242. Letters on improper Behaviour in a Female Oratory ........ HUGHES THE SPECTATOR. No 195. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1711. Νήπιοι, ἐδ ̓ ἴσασιν όσῳ πλέον ήμισυ παντός. HES. Oper. & Dier. 1. i. 40. Fools not to know that half exceeds the whole, THERE is a story in the Arabian Nights Tales of a B an indisposition which all the compositions he had taken inwardly had not been able to remove. This eastern allegory is finely contrived to shew us how beneficial bodily labour is to health, and that exercise is the most effectual physic. I have described in my hundred and fifteenth paper, from the general structure and mechanism of an human body, how absolutely necessary exercise is for its preservation. I shall in this place recommend another great preservative of health, which in many cases produces the same effects as exercise, and may, in some measure, supply its place, where opportunities of exercise are wanting. The preservative I am speaking of is temperance, which has those particular advantages above all other means of health, that it may be practised by all ranks and conditions, at any season, or in any place. It is a kind of regimen into which every man may put himself, without interruption to business, expence of money, or loss of time. If exercise throws off all superfluities, temperance prevents them; if exercise clears the vessels, temperance neither satiates nor overstrains them; if exercise raises proper ferments in the humours, and promotes the circulation of the blood, temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigour; if exercise dissipates a growing distemper, temperance starves it. Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance. Medicines are indeed absolutely necessary in acute distempers, that cannot wait the slow operations of these two great instruments of health; but did men live in an habitual course of exercise and temperance, there would be but little occasion for them. cordingly we find that those parts of the world are the most healthy, where they subsist by the chase ; and that men lived longest when their lives were Ac |