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104 INTOXICATING BEADING.
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The Evil Of Intoxicating Drink Is One Of...
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way ; is and ielding the abundant putting supp reading ly of in intellectual to the poorest food han our d teeming flooding
us press with cheap y mental , provender , instead of proving the , blessing of our is thus in danger of becoming its veriest curse . For
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or narratives depictin ; g virtue ! y No I The pure sublime element so of extensivel morality is y . not The that very which revers qu e alifies is the the case article . It is that not " whole sells " -
mind some nourishment that is in excessive , necessary deman susten d , it ance is dangerous and aliment stimulant for the , deadly , poison . Every welcome hand that the holds a of pen ch mus literature t warmly
app In itself laud and it merits sincerel all y eulogiums ; but system the use of e so ap mighty an . engine calls , for discrimination is , since idl it is peculiarly liable harm to th be
abusedand obviously now rapy doing more an good . , These things oug h the ht not so th to and be breadth . " The of great s land erial
shoul deterioration curren d t bring , that and us run life s throug and tion fertiliz . Our leng ation " millions of the best " imbibe sort , it not our as moral their , corrup
or daily shall draug they ht ; hav shall e th a ey cleansing slake their and thirst purif at ying a polluted fount at spring their ? ,
command ? the The reader way with to deal the with importance this matter of what is to he instruct " takes and in ; impress " teach . j
him to observe its tendency , and test its quality by his moral senseand him to reject firmly and decidedly all from
which ; at the urge first touch it revolts . Every person requires some " Sensation Heading . " It is a
or pleasure less than human a mental nature insi dem ght ands into . other It is human , in fact beings , nothing ; and more as
we are naturally intensely interested in each other , it is quite analagous rig " ht Sensation to indul to ge bodil Heading this y feeling stimulant " is . ' its , pabulum which every . seek This individual and is every wants way it
"as according sensation it exactl to " y his becom suits constitution es him " , intoxication he , will and never if he " and onl reach y irritation , the stage accept where , I supervenes
on healthy excitement . , „ The sensitization of society , resulting from the action of cheap
literature , the daily paper , and the weekly Penny Press , is
104 Intoxicating Beading.
104 INTOXICATING BEADING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/32/
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