Excerpt from Solitude or the Effects of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the Heart, General Society, in Exile, in Old Age, and on the Bed of Death, in Which the Question Is Considered Whether It Is Easier to Live Virtuously in Society or in Solitude, Tr, From

But e state and condition of his son was still more distressing to his feelings than even the death of his beloved daughter. This un happy youth, who, while he was at the univer sity, discovered the finest fancy and the sound est understanding, either from a malignant and inveterate species of scrofula, with which he had been periodically tortured from his earliest infancy, or from too close an application to study, fell very early in life into a state of bed ily infirmity and mental languor, which ter minated iii the month of December, 1777, in a total derangement of his faculties, and he has now continued, in spite of every endeavor to restore him, a perfect idiot for more than twen ty'years.

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