Lectures on man : being a series of discourses on phrenology and physiology / delivered by L.N. Fowler.

  • Lorenzo N. Fowler
Date:
1880
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    beautiful! ” and thus expired one of the noblest men that ever lived. As his lif was blessed and happy, so was his end serene, peaceful, and holy. May this be the happy lot of us all. Woman has a great influence in assisting man to reform, or in helping him to live a noble life. A man may work, talk, and legislate, but he cannot begin to do as much as a woman. There is no power equal to her loving principle, and when this is on the side of humanity, she wields a mighty power. If young ladies want smoking, drinking husbands, young men will smoke aud drink to please them, but if otherwise, there would soon be a change in the habits of young men. If married ladies and young ladies would exert their influence in favour of total abstinence, they could do more than all the Temperance societies in the world. The mother should train her children in the way they should go, and the foundations of Temperance would be thoroughly laid. Fathers should set a good example to their children, should provide enter- tainments for them, and thereby prevent them from forming intem- perate habits. We have splendid churches and magnificent cathedrals for the sabbath, and we need pleasant halls for the assembling of the people during the week, so that they shall not be tempted to go to drinking and gambling saloons. I appeal to the young men of the country. When there is so much testimony in favour of Temperance; when sailors, farmers, pitmen, engineers, puddlers in iron, soldiers and generals say that Temperance is the best platform on which they can stand ; when Wellington and Havelock could trust none but temperate soldiers; when physiologists say that Temperance is the road to health ; when physicians say that intemperance is the road to disease; when druggists say that medicines can be preserved without alcohol; when taxpayers and oversears of the poor say that intemperance leads directly to poverty; when lawyers, jurors, jailors and ministers, say that it leads to vice and crime ; when wives and children say it leads to brutality; when science says that alcohol does not digest, is not food, undergoes no change in the system, but that it is a disturber of natural laws from the time it enters the body till it leaves it; when the best men in the community are on the side of Temperance ; when, finally, truth, lovr- peace, health, success, long life and happiness, are the blessings whio Temperance gives, I may well ask you on what platform you will stand. As you begin in life, you will in a great degree continue. If you form virtuous habits you will never regret it through life ; but, if otherwise, you will be tormented by the consciousness that you are violating the laws of man and of God: there will be no peace or happiness for you, and the world will not be the better because you have lived in it. J Young ladies, do not waste your energies, but train vour own minds
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