These indeed may be caught by infection, bnt they will seldom continue long where cleanliness prevails.

883. To the same cause must weim pute the various kinds of vermin that infest the human body, houses, etc. These may generally be banished by cleanliness alone.

884. Perhaps the intention of nature, in permitting such vermin to annoy mankind, is to induce them to the practice of this virtue.

885. One common cause of putrid and malignant fevers is the want of cleanliness.

886. These fevers commonly begin among the inhabitants of close dirty houses, who breathe bad air, take little exercise, use unwholesome food, and wear dirty clothes. There the infection is generally hatched, which spreads far and wide to the destruction of many. Hence cleanliness may be considered as an object of the public attention.

837. It is not sufficient that I be clean myself, while the want of it in my neighbour affects my health as well as his own.

888. If dirty people cannot be removed as a common nuisance, they ought at least to be avoided as infectious. All who regard their health, should keep at a distance, even from their habitations.

889. In places where great numbers of people are collected, cleanliness becomes of the utmost importance.

890. It is well known, that infectious diseases are caused by tainted air. Everything, therefore, which tends to pollute the air, or spread the infection, ought with the utmost care to be avoided.

891. For this reason, in great towns, no filth of any kind should be permitted to lie upon the streets. We are sorry to say, that the importance of general cleanliness does by no means seem to be sufficiently understood.

892. It were well if the lower classes of the inhabitants of the United States would imitate the Dutch, in the cleanliness of their streets, houses, etc.

893. Water, indeed, is easily obtained in Holland; but the situation of most towns in the United States is more favourable to cleanliness.

894. Nothing can be more agreeable to the senses, more to the honour of the inhabitants, or conducive to their health, than a clean town; nor does anything impress a stranger sooner with a disrespectful idea of any people than its opposite.

895. It is remarkable, that, in most eastern countries, cleanliness makes a great part of their religion. The Mahometan, as well as the Jewish reli- gion, enjoins various bathings, wash ings, and purifications. No doubt these were designed to represent in ward purity; but they are at the same time calculated for the preservation of health.

896. However whimsical these washings may appear to some, few things would appear more to prevent diseases than a proper attention to many of them.

897. Were every person, for example, after handling a dead body, visiting the sick, etc., to wash before he went into company, or sat down to meat, be would run less hazard either of catching the infection himself, or communic-eating it to others.

898. Frequent washing not only removes the filth which adheres to the skin, but likewise promotes the perspiration, braces the body, and enlivens the spirits.

899. Even washing the feet tends greatly to preserve health. The sweat and dirt with which these parts are frequently covered, cannot fail to obstruct their perspiration. This piece of cleanliness would often prevent colds and fevers.

900. Were people to bathe their feet and hands in warm water at night, after being exposed to cold or wet through the day, they would seldom experience any of the fatal ef fects which often proceed from these causes.

901. In places where great numbers of sick people are kept, cleanliness ought most religiously to be observed. The very smell in such places is often sufficient to make one sick. It is easy to imagine what effect that is likely to have upon the diseased.

902. A person in health has a greater chance to become sick, than a sick person has to get well, in an hospital or infirmary where cleanliness is neglected.

903. The brutes themselves set us an example of cleanliness. Most of them seem uneasy, and thrive ill, if they be not kept clean. A horse that is kept thoroughly clean, will thrive better on a smaller quantity of food, than with a greater where cleanliness is neglected.

904. Even our own feelings are sufficient proof of the necessity of cleanliness. How refreshed, how cheerful and agreeable does one feel on being shaved, washed and dressed; especially when these have been Long neglected.

905. Most people esteem sleanli-ness; and even those who do not practise it themselves, often adm:re it in others.