The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)