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ving. But a friend whom I esteemed, and who shaved with cold water, said so much in its favor that I ventured to make the trial; and I can truly say that I would not return to my former slavery to hot water, if I had a servant who had nothing else to do but furnish it. I cannot indeed say with a recent writer (I think in the Journal of Health) that cold water is a great deal _better_ than warm; but I can and do say that it makes little if any difference with me which I use; though on going out into the cold air immediately afterward, the skin is more likely to chap after the use of warm water than cold. Besides I think the use of warm water more likely to produce eruptions on the skin.--Sometimes, though not generally, I shave, like Sir John Sinclair, without a glass; but I would never be enslaved to one, convenient as it is. SECTION XV. _Bathing and Cleanliness._ Cleanliness of the body has, some how or other, such a connection with mental and moral purity, (whether as cause or effect--or both--I will not undertake now to determine) that I am unwilling to omit the present opportunity of urging its importance. There are those who are so attentive to this subject as to wash their whole bodies in water, either cold or warm, every day of the year; and never to wear the same clothes, during the day, that they have slept in the previous night. Now this habit may by some be called whimsical; but I think it deserves a _better name_. I consider this extreme, if it ought to be called an extreme, as vastly more safe than the common extreme of _neglect_. Is it not shameful--_would_ it not be, were human duty properly understood--to pass months, and even years, without washing the whole body once? There are thousands and tens of thousands of both sexes, who are exceedingly nice, even to fastidiousness, about externals;--who, like those mentioned in the gospel, keep clean the 'outside of the cup and the platter,'--but alas! how is it within? Not a few of us,--living, as we do, in a land where soap and water are abundant and cheap--would blush, if the whole story were told. This chapter, if extended so far as to embrace the whole subject of cleanliness of person, dress, and apartments, and cold and warm bathing, would alone fill a volume; a volume too, which, if well prepared, would be of great value, especially to all young men. But my present limits do not permit of any thing farther. In regard to _cold bathing_, however,
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