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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    experiment, but we must not forget that they are children. Short-lived abstainers are simply experimentalists. They cease to spur the animal; the animal relaxes. “ That’s just rfhat I say,” retorts the triumphant Bacchanal. Stop a moment. Were spurs at all necessary for your animal in order that it might fulfil the law of its nature? What! spurs every day ?-several digs at meals, and between meals, and before meals, and after meals ? But to plunge in mediae res. I purpose to treat of e personal advantages of abstinence as far as possible in alphabetical order, in order to furnish a ready mnemonic, w ich I hope may prove as useful as a ready reckoner or as ready money.. I ask you to give your unbiassed attention to acts of experience. Would that we might adopt the method o the great Descartes-strip our thoughts of all opinions b' r 7? thTu°/eIf’eyident princiPles> and upon them build our future beliefs. Bringing to bear a spirit thus free from bias and prejudice, you may find reasons to abstain as neTdT ! aS P7nt aS Celebrated dean of the Jacobite p nod found for imbibing, when he wrote “ If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink— l^ood wine, a friend, or being dry Or lest we should be by-and-by, Or any other reason why.9* I confidently anticipate a less limited nse of the excellent Leam.„gton ™ters, and those nnadnlterated; wate ” >*ch my most strenuons antagonists will never dare to write as a wag once wrote of those at Malvern,- “ Those waters so famed by the great Dr Wall Consist in containing just nothing at all.” And first, the Appetite of the abstainer is more equable Ihe term appetite » is e,nivocal. There is such 7 tl,“g
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