Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson.

  • Wilson, George R. (George Robert)
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Drunkenness / by George R. Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV. Therapeutics. The subject upon which we enter is assuredly not inspiriting. The measure of the task be- fore us is the measure of a nation’s degradation. Hitherto the cure of national drunkenness has been more than many of the wisest and ablest have hoped to compass ; and now many good men, perplexed and disheartened, are con- strained to stand by and wait. On the other hand, there are some whose faith in this or that measure is supreme, and who are impatient of delay; but for the most part their faith is ignorant and their impatience unjust. Can anything new be said then, or anything useful? Are we right in being so anxious over it, or would we be wiser to attend to other matters and leave this problem to solve itself? If alcohol were banished from the kingdom to- morrow, would the nation be morally more
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