I am satisfied to find that the good fortune which originally
attended the effort holds on, and that in publishing it now in a
separate form I am acting in obedience to a generally expressed
desire.
Since the delivery of the Address before the Health Department of the
Social Science Congress, over which I had the honour to preside, at
Brighton, in October last, every day has brought some new suggestion
bearing on the subjects discussed, and the temptation has been great
to add new matter, or even to recast the essay and bring it out as a
more compendious work. On reflection I prefer to let it take its
place in literature, in the first instance, in its original and simple
dress.
12 HINDE STREET, W.:
_August_ 18, 1876.
HYGEIA, A CITY OF HEALTH
We meet in this Assembly, a voluntary Parliament of men and women,
to study together and to exchange knowledge and thought on works
of every-day life and usefulness. Our object, to make the present
existence better and happier; to inquire, in this particular section
of our Congress:--What are the conditions which lead to the pain and
penalty of disease; what the means for the removal of those conditions
when they are discovered? What are the most ready and convincing
methods of making known to the uninformed the facts: that many of the
conditions are under our control; that neither mental serenity nor
mental development can exist with an unhealthy animal organisation;
that poverty is the shadow of disease, and wealth the shadow of
health?
These objects relate to ourselves, to our own reliefs from suffering,
to our own happiness, to our own riches.
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