[It is wonderful how afraid]

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Title: [It is wonderful how afraid]
Date: 7 January 1858
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: per.01333
Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 7 January 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[It is wonderful how afraid]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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☞ It is wonderful how afraid consumptive people are of cold air, the very thing that would cure them; the only obstacle to a cure being that they do not get enough of it, especially if it is cold, when it is known that the colder the purer it must be; yet if people cannot go to a hotter climate, they will make an artificial one, and imprison themselves a whole winter in a warm room, with a temperature not varying ten degrees in six month; all such people die, and yet we follow in their [f]ootsteps .