Excerpt from Melincourt, Vol. 1 Body goes everywhere: going for the sake Of going, .and rejoicing in the rapidity with which they accomplish nothing. 072 r1a, mais on 728 voyage pas. Strenuous idleness drives us on the wings of steam in boats and trains, seeking the art of enjoying life, which, after all, is in the regula tion of the mind, and not in the whisking about of the body.* Of the disputants whose Opinions and public characters (for I never trespassed on private life) were shadowed in some of the persons of the story, almost all have passed from the diurnal scene. Many of the questions, discussed in the dialogues, have more of general than Of temporary application, and have still their advocates on both sides: and new questions have arisen, which furnish abundant argument for similar conversa tions, and of which I may yet, perhaps, avail myself on some future occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.