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... total abstinence from al- coholic beverages , and devised plans for the effective propaganda of their tenets . They doubted the ex- pediency of coercion in " a matter of private habits , ' but shrank from no sacrifice in braving the ...
... total abstinence from al- coholic beverages , and devised plans for the effective propaganda of their tenets . They doubted the ex- pediency of coercion in " a matter of private habits , ' but shrank from no sacrifice in braving the ...
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... Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit - Wine probably the first stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive ...
... Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit - Wine probably the first stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive ...
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... total abstinence from all noxious stimulants , for Nature has willed that all her creatures should begin the pilgrimage of life from beyond the point where the roads of purity and vice dvierge . In their projects for the abolition of ...
... total abstinence from all noxious stimulants , for Nature has willed that all her creatures should begin the pilgrimage of life from beyond the point where the roads of purity and vice dvierge . In their projects for the abolition of ...
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... total abstinence plan is not at first the easiest , but event- ually the surest way ; for , even after weeks of suc- cessful resistance to the importunities of the tempter , a mere spark may rekindle the smothered flames . " What takes ...
... total abstinence plan is not at first the easiest , but event- ually the surest way ; for , even after weeks of suc- cessful resistance to the importunities of the tempter , a mere spark may rekindle the smothered flames . " What takes ...
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... total abstinence from all stimulating poisons . CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . " The THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 27.
... total abstinence from all stimulating poisons . CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . " The THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 27.
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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...โ
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.โ
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.โ