Correspondence on the Principles of Right Reasoning, Applicable to Temperance (Volume 1); And to the Effects of Fermented and Distilled Liquors ... Justin Edwards, and REV. Dr. Samuel H. Cox - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1836. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 4. This leads me to anticipate a question intended for some time hence. Did you ever know a regular ruined sot--made such, and continuing such, on wine or cider? How many? 5. There is no doubt, that alcohol is the rogue in question, in fermented liquors. H. No. vi.» mr. hopkins to mr. smith. On the effects of fermented and distilled liquors respectively upon mankind, considered in a national point of view. Geneva, July 9, 1836. Gerrit Smith, Esq.. My Dear Sir: If nations that are brought up without vinous liquors, are generally temperate, that is, if they voluntarily abstain from inebriating substances when they can get them, there must arise a reasonable presumption in favor of that way, on temperance grounds. If such nations are intemperate whenever they can find the means of indulgence, and on any and every intoxicating substance, then the contrary presumption arises; and it is a strong presumption, if the fact is universal, and if there appears no other reasonable way of accounting for it. How are the facts? The wine region of the earth has been much the same from the earliest times. In a general sense, it is embraced between about north latitude 30 and 45, but varying somewhat according to other circumstances:--and between the strait of Gibralter and Persia. This portion of the earth contained all that we commonly call the civilized nations of ancient times; and also all of modern times, except America and the north of Europe. The amazingly populous nations of Asia, from India eastward, do not appear ever to have cultivated the vine extensively. Northern Asia was too cold; most of Africa, too hot; Spain, Gaul and the nations about the Danube, too barbarous, until the decaying ages of Rome. In the time of Tacitus, as we shall see, wine was an imported a...

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