It caught the contagion of poetry, philosophy and science.'
The contagion had spread through towns and villages and the open country, but it might still be stayed.
The earliest writers upon cholera emphasized its remarkable preference for particular places; and the history of each successive epidemic implies, besides an importation of the contagion, certain local conditions which may be either general sanitary defects or peculiarities of climate and soil.
The danger of contagion lies in the wonderful vitality of the spores, and their great resistance to heat and cold.
The only good of man is the pure existence of the soul, which in itself, apart from the contagion of the body, is perfectly free from error or defect; if only it can be restored to the untrammelled activity of its original being, nothing external, nothing bodily, can positively impair its perfect welfare.