The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: children with whom you may have to do. I must apologise if I say
many things which are well known to many persons in this room:
they ought to be well known to all: but it is generally best to
assume total ignorance in one's hearers, and to begin from the
beginning.
I shall try to be as simple as possible; to trouble you as little
as possible with scientific terms; to be practical; and at the
same time, if possible, interesting.
I should wish to call this lecture "The Two Breaths:" not merely
"The Breath;" and for this reason: every time you breathe you
breathe two different breaths; you take in one, you give out
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