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... crimes and vices , between direct and indirect offences against the statutes of the moral code . But the recognized interests of public welfare have al- ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly ...
... crimes and vices , between direct and indirect offences against the statutes of the moral code . But the recognized interests of public welfare have al- ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly ...
Page 12
... crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression - Magnitude of the evil - The poison - traffic not a self - correcting abuse - Lesser evils - Efficacy of prohibitive legislation - Prohibition in Sweden - Local ...
... crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression - Magnitude of the evil - The poison - traffic not a self - correcting abuse - Lesser evils - Efficacy of prohibitive legislation - Prohibition in Sweden - Local ...
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... crime against the physical laws of God , as if Nature herself had lured us to our ruin ; the votaries of alcohol plead their ignorance , as if the Providence that warns us against the sting of a tiny insect , and teaches the eye to ...
... crime against the physical laws of God , as if Nature herself had lured us to our ruin ; the votaries of alcohol plead their ignorance , as if the Providence that warns us against the sting of a tiny insect , and teaches the eye to ...
Page 30
... crime . Wherever the interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress , since the time when the sumptuary laws of Lorenzo de Medici were defeated by street riots and a shrieking proces ...
... crime . Wherever the interests of the poison - traffic are at stake the nations of Europe have not made much progress , since the time when the sumptuary laws of Lorenzo de Medici were defeated by street riots and a shrieking proces ...
Page 56
... crime - condoning philanthropy is too often something worse than indifference ; our aversion to moral and dogmatic controversies is founded chiefly on a preference of non - committal secretiveness or sham conformity . Our nervous dread ...
... crime - condoning philanthropy is too often something worse than indifference ; our aversion to moral and dogmatic controversies is founded chiefly on a preference of non - committal secretiveness or sham conformity . Our nervous dread ...
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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.