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Page 64
... five towns whose inhabitants had not five minutes ' time to effect their escape . But what are such calamities compared with the havoc of wanton wars , or the rav- ages of consumption and other diseases that are the direct consequences ...
... five towns whose inhabitants had not five minutes ' time to effect their escape . But what are such calamities compared with the havoc of wanton wars , or the rav- ages of consumption and other diseases that are the direct consequences ...
Page 66
... five years . The average age of a soldier is nowadays about twenty - five years . The death of 7,000 soldiers represents , therefore , a na- tional loss of 7,000 times the difference between twenty - five and forty - five years , i . e ...
... five years . The average age of a soldier is nowadays about twenty - five years . The death of 7,000 soldiers represents , therefore , a na- tional loss of 7,000 times the difference between twenty - five and forty - five years , i . e ...
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... five years . Political economists have calculated the consequent loss of pro- ductive force , but there is another consideration which is too often overlooked . The progress of degenera- tion has reduced our life - term so far below the ...
... five years . Political economists have calculated the consequent loss of pro- ductive force , but there is another consideration which is too often overlooked . The progress of degenera- tion has reduced our life - term so far below the ...
Page 69
... five per cent of their fertile area to the production of stimulating poisons . If the land thus abused were simply neg- lected , if it were abandoned to the weeds and tares , the laborers who now cultivate it in the interest of hell ...
... five per cent of their fertile area to the production of stimulating poisons . If the land thus abused were simply neg- lected , if it were abandoned to the weeds and tares , the laborers who now cultivate it in the interest of hell ...
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... five thousand years ago the lawgivers of the Bactrian nomads recorded their protest against the vice of intoxication . A drunkard who flees from the prohibitory laws of his native place can not escape the voice of an inner monitor . The ...
... five thousand years ago the lawgivers of the Bactrian nomads recorded their protest against the vice of intoxication . A drunkard who flees from the prohibitory laws of his native place can not escape the voice of an inner monitor . 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.