Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors.

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[1874?]
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Credit: Religious and educational aspects of temperance / by various authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PERSONAL ADVANTAGES OF ABSTINENCE. To try to adequately detail in a half-hour’s paper the personal advantages of abstinence is just as hopeless as to attempt to empty the ocean into a teacup, or “ For a camel To thread the postern of a needle’s eye.” And yet so uniform is the experience of the abstainer, that one labours under the disadvantage of being able to com- municate to him nothing that is new; on the other hand, to the non-abstainer, one will appear to advance little that is true. All that I can hope, then, is to strengthen the hands or my brethren, and to place before my opponents, to whose ranks I was so long, in ignorance, attached, truths for which I can personally vouch, and which are, in the main, corroborated by the experience of all total abstainers. I say of all total abstainers, for I exclude from this category those who have made, or are making, a short-lived experiment. Experiment and experience are totally distinct things. If we rest upon experiment, our conclusions can never tran- scend the limits of our premisses; all the unseen future is still left open, in which new experiences may arise to over- turn the existing theory. Children act upon a single
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