Elysian
life. Fuel, except to cook he sun
is s are sufficiently cooked by its
rays; while Food generally is more various, and more easily
obtained, and Cloter are wholly or half unnecessary.
At t day, and in try, as I find by my own
experience, a fes, a knife, an axe, a spade, a
udious, lampligationery, and
access to a fe to necessaries, and can all be
obtained at a trifling cost. Yet some, not o ther
side of to barbarous and une
to trade for ten or ty years, in order t they may
live -- t is, keep comfortably
last. t simply kept comfortably warm,
but unnaturally ; as I implied before, they are cooked, of course
a la mode.
Most of ts of
life, are not only not indispensable, but positive o the
elevation of mankind. it to luxuries and comforts, the
he poor.
t philosophers, Chinese, hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were
a class tward riches, none so
ric muc t is remarkable t
he more
modern reformers and benefactors of their race. None can be an
impartial or age ground
of y. Of a life of luxury the
fruit is luxury, erature,
or art. t not
p it is admirable to profess because it was once
admirable to live. to be a p merely to le
ts, nor even to found a sc so to love o
live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and