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Page 56
... social enter- prise , of manly courage and generosity . Moral cow- ardice , the chief reproach of our generation , has more to do with the tyranny of the poison - vice than with the despotism of social prejudices . If we should define ...
... social enter- prise , of manly courage and generosity . Moral cow- ardice , the chief reproach of our generation , has more to do with the tyranny of the poison - vice than with the despotism of social prejudices . If we should define ...
Page 96
... social evils , too , tend to work out their own cure . High markets encourage competition , and have led to a reduction of prices . Luxury leads to enforced economy by reduc- ing the resources of the spendthrift . Dishonest tradesmen ...
... social evils , too , tend to work out their own cure . High markets encourage competition , and have led to a reduction of prices . Luxury leads to enforced economy by reduc- ing the resources of the spendthrift . Dishonest tradesmen ...
Page 100
... social results . The late Lord Palmerston suppressed the beer - shops in Romsey as the leases fell in . We know an estate which stretches for miles along the romantic shore of Loch Fyne where no whisky is allowed to be sold . The ...
... social results . The late Lord Palmerston suppressed the beer - shops in Romsey as the leases fell in . We know an estate which stretches for miles along the romantic shore of Loch Fyne where no whisky is allowed to be sold . The ...
Page 108
... social intercourse . By the standard of usefulness , too , temperance primers might well take precedence of many other text - books . Our schoolboys hear all sorts of things about the perils encountered by the explorers of African ...
... social intercourse . By the standard of usefulness , too , temperance primers might well take precedence of many other text - books . Our schoolboys hear all sorts of things about the perils encountered by the explorers of African ...
Page 117
... social reformers , from Pythagoras to Jean Jacques Rousseau , and the secret of their failure was a mistake that has defeated more than one philanthropic project . They failed to begin their reform at the basis of the social structure ...
... social reformers , from Pythagoras to Jean Jacques Rousseau , and the secret of their failure was a mistake that has defeated more than one philanthropic project . They failed to begin their reform at the basis of the social structure ...
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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.