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The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by David Graham Phillips
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Physical condition is no doubt the dominant factor in human
thought and action. State of soul is, as Doctor Schulze has
observed, simply the egotistic human vanity for state of body. If
the health of the human race were better, if sickness, the latent
and the revealed together, were not all but universal, human
relations would be wonderfully softened, sweetened and simplified.
Indigestion, with its various ramifications, is alone responsible
for most of the crimes, catastrophes and cruelties, public and
private discord; for it tinges human thought and vision with
pessimistic black or bloody red or envious green or degenerate
yellow instead of the normal, serene and invigorating white. All
the world's great public disturbers have been diseased. As for
private life, its bad of all degrees could, as to its deep-lying,
originating causes, be better diagnosed by physician than by
psychologist.

Margaret, being in perfect physical condition, was deeply
depressed for only a short time after the immediate cause of her
mood ceased to be active. An hour after Joshua had revealed
himself in thunder and lightning, and had gone, she was almost
serene again, her hopefulness of healthy youth and her sense of
humor in the ascendent. Their stay in the woods was drawing to an
end. Soon they would be off for Lenox, for her Uncle Dan's, where
there would be many people about and small, perhaps no,
opportunity for direct and quick action and result. She reviewed
her conduct and felt that she had no reason to reproach herself
for not having made an earlier beginning in what she now saw
should have been her tactics with her "wild man." How could she,
inexpert, foresee what was mockingly obvious to hindsight? Only by
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