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Remains of Robert Forbes, a Selection From His Public Discourses and Popular Lectures [ed. by A. Spence]. With a Sketch of His Life [by A.
Remains of Robert Forbes a Selection From His Public Discourses and Popular Lectures With a Sketch of His Life by A - ed. by A. Spence Author:Robert Forbes Title: Remains of ... Robert Forbes, a Selection From His Public Discourses and Popular Lectures [ed. by A. Spence]. With a Sketch of His Life [by A. Philip]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or miss... more »ing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: POPULAR LECTURES. THE DISEASES OF SOCIETY AND THEIR ALLEVIATIONS. No one can deny that there exists in the world numerous moral as well as physical diseases. At all times such are to be found, just as we find in any community, that a certain proportion of the people is laid up by sickness and under the care of the physician. But there are times, you are aware, when sickness prevails to a much greater extent, when some Epidemic sweeps across the surface of a district or country, and affects thousands and tens of thousands of its inhabitants, carrying many of them to a premature and unlooked-for grave. In like manner, there are moral Epidemics which seem to seize upon society. Sometimes one form of social evil is much more prevalent than at other times, and sometimes, from the numerous cases of social disease occurring around us, we are led to think, that society is not improving but getting worse, and that, with all our religion, our science, and our civilization, we are not progressing upwards and onwards in morality and holiness. These diseases are unquestionably the fruits of sin. They arise as naturally from sin -- aa any physical effect follows its cause. We live in a world which haa cast off its allegiance from the pure and holy God, which has wilfully placed itself under the sway of the Prince of Darkness, which has sowed to theflesh, and therefore of the flesh must expect to reap corruption. Where there exists impure air, or unwholesom...« less