Prohibiting Price Fixing and Other Anticompetitive Conduct in the Health Insurance Industry: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...environment afforded. It is now said that beyond the pleasure and happiness, a real principle of growth is involved; that if we want to have strong and vigorous minds, and wills that are trained to make right choices, and more than this, char acters that unconsciously expand in righteousness, we must have the most beautiful and wholesome atmosphere for that life to be trained in. It is coming to be seen that life in its complexity has, after all, great unity; that there must be the unifying force of some great idea; that there must be some noble aspiration, some high ideal, or the energies are dissipated and frittered away, and what might be useful becomes, in too many cases, simply a clog upon the community in which it has its being. We have said that life was complex. As long as we are souls and have bodies it must be complex. The cultivation of the two, the growth of the two, must go together. The mediaeval idea of the wretchedness and vileness of the body, that it was something to be kept under and scourged into obedience, has more or less disappeared in the enlightened plan of educating body and mind and spirit. Browning exclaims most truly: Nor soul helps body more than body soul. Our bodies after all have to express our souls. This is our local habitation. We have here an external embodiment; we are aware of each other by visible and outward tokens of the invisible and indefinable spirit. And while it is spirit that must always control, if there is any right life, the bodily members certainly help the spirit. Imagine what a world it would be if all our vain fancies, our sudden impulses, could be carried out; if there actually were a magical carpet, and we could wish ourselves at the end of the earth and back again in...