For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature. ' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
Timothy Dwight V
To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed. . . to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless. . . If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.
