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... protecting forests that absorbed and equalized the drainage of the Alpine slopes ; the same imprudence has turned the gardens of the East into deserts , and obstructed with sand - bars the chan- nels of once navigable rivers . The ...
... protecting forests that absorbed and equalized the drainage of the Alpine slopes ; the same imprudence has turned the gardens of the East into deserts , and obstructed with sand - bars the chan- nels of once navigable rivers . The ...
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... protect itself against a mote of dust , had provided no adequate safeguards against the greatest danger to health and happiness . And yet those safeguards would abundantly an- swer their protective purpose if persistent vice had not ...
... protect itself against a mote of dust , had provided no adequate safeguards against the greatest danger to health and happiness . And yet those safeguards would abundantly an- swer their protective purpose if persistent vice had not ...
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... protection of the laws in behalf of an industry involving the systematic prop- agation of disease , misery , and crime . Wherever the interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress ...
... protection of the laws in behalf of an industry involving the systematic prop- agation of disease , misery , and crime . Wherever the interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress ...
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... protection of a so - called civilized government . Waste is not an adequate word for that monstrous folly . If the grain farmers of Laputa should organize an expe- dition to the sea - coast , and , under the auspices of the legal ...
... protection of a so - called civilized government . Waste is not an adequate word for that monstrous folly . If the grain farmers of Laputa should organize an expe- dition to the sea - coast , and , under the auspices of the legal ...
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... protection . In the sanitary history of the Caucasian nations alcohol has proved a worse plague than the Black Death . The waste of land and the waste of labor must be considered together , in order to comprehend the total amount of the ...
... protection . In the sanitary history of the Caucasian nations alcohol has proved a worse plague than the Black Death . The waste of land and the waste of labor must be considered together , in order to comprehend the total amount of the ...
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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.