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... truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of a progressive and shame - proof disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must direct our blows at the root of the upas tree and adopt the motto ...
... truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of a progressive and shame - proof disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must direct our blows at the root of the upas tree and adopt the motto ...
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... truth . " — Wilberforce . AMONG the strange legends of the middle ages there are certain traditions which have evidently a figurative significance , and whose origin has often been traced to the allegorical mythology of an earlier age ...
... truth . " — Wilberforce . AMONG the strange legends of the middle ages there are certain traditions which have evidently a figurative significance , and whose origin has often been traced to the allegorical mythology of an earlier age ...
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... of all these premises thus reveals the two - fold secret of the alcohol habit : the anomaly of its attractiveness and the necessity of its progressiveness ; and we at last recognize the truth , 26 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... of all these premises thus reveals the two - fold secret of the alcohol habit : the anomaly of its attractiveness and the necessity of its progressiveness ; and we at last recognize the truth , 26 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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Felix Leopold Oswald. progressiveness ; and we at last recognize the truth , that the road to intemperance is paved with mild stimulants , and that the only safe , consistent , and ef- fective plan of reform is total abstinence from all ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. progressiveness ; and we at last recognize the truth , that the road to intemperance is paved with mild stimulants , and that the only safe , consistent , and ef- fective plan of reform is total abstinence from all ...
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... truth , that the suppression of that instinct avenges itself by its per- version , by driving pleasure - seekers from the play- ground to the pot - house , as despotism has turned free- men into bandits and outlaws . " Every one who con ...
... truth , that the suppression of that instinct avenges itself by its per- version , by driving pleasure - seekers from the play- ground to the pot - house , as despotism has turned free- men into bandits and outlaws . " Every one who con ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
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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.