Excerpt from The Commonhealth: A Series of Essays on Health and Felicity, for Every-Day Readers

In the depths of the night, in a climate where night is short, in the midst of that short interval when even the gods are supposed to rest, when the sun-god himself has withdrawn from the earth, and the sun sees not the deeds of men, some men and women of the earth, in solemn silence, bring something forth from home.

If they should speak there would flow from the lips of those people a language so beautiful, so perfect, so expressive, that though the listening ear were foreign to it and understood it not it would be held listening. But there is not a sound.

If these people could be seen in their fair stature and build of body, draped in their loose garments, the eye, like the ear, would be vanquished. Such incomparable beauty!

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