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... interests of public welfare have al- ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly speaking , the varying definitions of good and evil have ever biased the pre- vailing theories as to the proper ...
... interests of public welfare have al- ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly speaking , the varying definitions of good and evil have ever biased the pre- vailing theories as to the proper ...
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... interest , and our own age can in that respect not boast of much improvement . In spite of our higher standard of ... interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress , since the time when ...
... interest , and our own age can in that respect not boast of much improvement . In spite of our higher standard of ... interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress , since the time when ...
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... interest of hell might employ their time in assisting their friends , and help them to cultivate better or larger crops on the soil of the adjoining lands . If they should prefer to emigrate , their abandoned fields might be culti ...
... interest of hell might employ their time in assisting their friends , and help them to cultivate better or larger crops on the soil of the adjoining lands . If they should prefer to emigrate , their abandoned fields might be culti ...
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... interest , the freedom of international traffic . On more than one occasion European governments , having at- tempted to regulate the price of bread - stuffs , etc. , were taught the folly of such interference by com- mercial dead ...
... interest , the freedom of international traffic . On more than one occasion European governments , having at- tempted to regulate the price of bread - stuffs , etc. , were taught the folly of such interference by com- mercial dead ...
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... interests of the State are plainly seen every- where . " " It is perhaps not necessary , " says the Boston " Globe , " of July 29 , 1875 , " to dwell on the evils of intemperance , and yet people seldom think how great a proportion of ...
... interests of the State are plainly seen every- where . " " It is perhaps not necessary , " says the Boston " Globe , " of July 29 , 1875 , " to dwell on the evils of intemperance , and yet people seldom think how great a proportion of ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause and Cure of Intemperance Felix Leopold Oswald No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 85 - The alcohol does not relieve the individual from cold by increasing his temperature ; nor from heat by cooling him ; nor from weakness and exhaustion by nourishing his tissues ; nor yet from affliction by increasing his nerve...
Page 85 - ... and thereby lessening his consciousness of impressions, whether from cold, or heat, or weariness, or pain. In other words, the presence of the alcohol has not in any degree lessened the effects of the evils to which he is exposed, but has diminished his consciousness of their existence, and thereby impaired his judgment concerning the degree of their action upon him.
Page 101 - In the course of my duty as internal revenue officer, I have become thoroughly acquainted with the state and extent of the liquor traffic in Maine, and I have no hesitation in saying that the beer trade is not more than one per cent. of what I remember it to have been, and the trade in distilled liquors is not more than ten per cent. of what it was formerly. . . . When liquor is sold at all, it is done secretly, through fear of the law.