Date: 1785
"Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind."
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Date: 1790
"[P]ains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again"
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)