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Note from p.4.

(1) Sleep is not life, but the cessation of life temporary
death: if without dreaming, death followed by annihilation:
if occupied by dreams, death followed by resurrection in
another world. Lying abed without sleep is a habit
pernicious to health productive of be relaxation, and thence
pernicious to bodily health: and, in as far as it is
idleness, pernicious to moral health.

Note from p.5.

(2) In particular both sides of the body should share
alike in the benefit of exercise as well as n the burther:
otherwise the limb on one side will perish by fatigue
often have been rendered weak by fatigue, while the limb on the other side remains has been remaining
weak the for want of exercise. This equality
however will not be easy to effect preserve: inequality
is a much more natural result. Thus as between hand
and hand, whichever hand happens to have obtained
most exercise has obtained the advantage in point of
strength and facility of motion over its fellow: being
more pleasant to exercise, it presents itself on every
occasion before the other: because the readier hand is
employ'd exclusively it which other is scarce ever
employ'd except where the object happens to be decidedly the exertion requisite being slight, it
the </del> happens to be the nearest to the object, or the employment basis operation requires
both hands to be employ'd. Hence Right-handed
men are more common than left-handed: because
fashion has happened to decided in favour of the right hand: but
left-handed men are much more common than ambidexters. The of latter faculty is so rare that the
name of it is one application taken from it is scarce and but in a
figurative sense: – to say of call an attorney an ambidexter
has been held actionable. Breeding up ambidexters (in
the literal sense) would probably be attended with considerable
advantage, but would probably be no easy matter: in a
private family at least where it would require a more systematic
attention than it could be worth while to bestow upon a
two small number of children. In an Industry House it would make one
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	poor law
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	note heads
Image	001	Titles	note from p. 4 / note from p. 5
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49957
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