An Essay on Hasheesh: Including Observations and Experiments (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Robinson, Victor

9781331089841: An Essay on Hasheesh: Including Observations and Experiments (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Essay on Hasheesh: Including Observations and Experiments

All the reservoirs of nature have been tapped to yield medicines for man. From the mineral kingdom we take the alkali metals, the nitrogen group, the compounds of Oxygen, the healing waters, the halogens, the ni trate of silver, the sulphate of copper, the carbonate of sodium, the chloride of mercury, the hydroxide of potas sium, the acetate of lead, the citrate of lithium, the oxide of calcium, and the similar salts of half a hundred ele ments from Aluminium to Zincum.

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"What is left for us modern men? We cannot be Greek now. The cypress of knowledge springs, and withers when it comes in sight of Troy; the cypress of pleasure likewise, if it has not died already at the root of cankering Calvinism; the cypress of religion is tottering. What is left? Science, for those who are scientific. Art for artists; and all literary men are artists in a way. But science falls not to the lot of all. Art is hardly worth pursuing now. What is left? Hasheesh, I think: Hasheesh of one form or another. We can dull the pangs of the present by living the past again in reveries or learned studies, by illusions of the fancy and a life of self-indulgent dreaming. Take down the perfumed scrolls; open, unroll, peruse, digest, intoxicate your spirit with the flavor. Behold, here is the Athens of Plato in your narcotic visions; Buddha and his anchorites appear; the raptures of St. Francis and the fire-oblations of St. Dominic; the phantasms of mythologies; the birth-throes of religion, the neurotism of chivalry, the passion of past poems; all pass before you in your Maya world of hasheesh, which is criticism." - John Addington Symonds.

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