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physician and his examination, and which women alone can
rightly understand, who can doubt the importance of
the female physician, in whose case science steps in
to aid the natural sense and to constitute her the
best helper and counselor of women and children?
January 8. I have also been present at one of the
"Conversations" of Alcott, the Transcendentalist,
and have even taken part in the discourse. There
were present from forty to fifty people, all seated
on benches. Alcott sits in a pulpit with his face
toward the people, and begins the conversation by
reading something aloud. On this occasion it was from
the writings of Pythagoras. He is a handsome man,
of gentle manners, but a dreamer, whose Pythagorean
wisdom will hardly make people wiser nowadays. He
himself has lived for many years on bread, fruits,
vegetables, and water; and this is what he wishes
all other people to do; and thus fed, they would
become, according to his theory, beautiful, good,
and happy beings. Sin is to be driven out by diet;
and the sacred flood of enthusiasm would constantly
flow through the human being purified and beautified
by diet. Both the proposition and the conversation
were in the clouds, although I made a few attempts
to draw them forth. Alcott
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