The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    malice ” (that is, wickedness or vice) “ be ye children, but in understanding be men ” (1 Cor. xiv. 20). Wine makes men talk and act fool- ishly, as people often do in dreams. It makes them more like machines which cannot control themselves. It deyrades them. If a man, who has become excited by Alcohol, goes on taking more, before long the thoughts [or ideas] become less active, and the passions are then even more excited still. In that state the man is more dangerous, because he will not listen to reason or argument; he cannot under- stand it. He may commit murder while he is thus altered, and sometimes does not even know he has done it. It is of no use to talk to him. This condition lasts longer, and is more marked, in some people than in others. By taking more Alcohol the control of the passions, too, becomes weaker, and the power to control and move the body is also weakened. The man cannot walk straight, but reels about; he cannot speak properly. With a little more