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INTOXICATING READING. 105
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The Evil Of Intoxicating Drink Is One Of...
circula wonderfull ted y eviden it is t breaking . " The knowled t in ge of form good and showing evil "
effects in many y ways . An immense amount every of fact , is-published diurnall . No occurrence is hiddenall that can be known is
widely known y ; and all this cannot , on without producing thoug consequences hts " of bargain tremendous nowsi gned gnificance sealed . and u A delivered penny for ! your The
I deed f this to don see knowled , e and in a secre t the be t com to "li -day m h and , t , that is of in every shines , prin hand t before to , - that morro men holds w , / ' w a penny every and .
good ; it will , as of old , vivif g y and cause right action in the soil works of the kindles human mind the . The sig sentiments ht of , or the hearing tes the about love good of
the bes , t things , and generous makes the pleasures , promo of u sensation " true his and tory beneficial or fiction . Reading correct images such of as human this , convey lifepainting ing , either vice in in
i eminentl ts true colours useful , , But giving we claim virtue that its this true shall position , be , distinctl must be
y . y and and made fairly abhorren done . Let tas crime our common be called moral u crime sense , " trea demands ted as crime and ,
let it be well-remembered , , that right feeling revolts from ; the i de nferior tails of crime tions ; and are indul that it is against their its narration will , that lower and
sensay . lant u , Sensation if genuin Reading e , will never , " like properl toxicate y , -app that lied is , will physical never stimu cause
the lower _imjoulses to over-ride the reason ; but once suffer these ac to tivity become , and irri a t s tate ted , of undul mind y developed will be produced , and exci which ted to is impro injurious per
good as and injurious perilous manners to in ; " morality the and extreme this that is true . the of Evil minute fact communications as particulars well as fiction of corrup . all It the is t
ro na de mance t t ely ted , every guil are t paraded da in y , the as king t for hat a the half , i s - put aginary into in vices all the hands o journals f the , indiscrimi heroes of the of
penny hour Domestic . There and is social an awful evils degeneracy increase at apparent an astounding in our population rate . The .
Divorce Court is giving us a terrible history of ourselves , and of this the " comm cl unica Corruption tion" ha must s , surely , its t ' effect It is on dep the lorable " manners to see "
ay . corrup . the avidity with lfrom which this such source intoxicating is seized on reading and the as taste the
newson papers that supp which y feeds , it . This supply most trul ; y creates demand grows ; and the demand becomes an insatiable thirst
. it is This fact is it a very is not bad the form lowest of Intoxicating sort of it . Heading A worse , but and because more
virulent , kind is that dispensed in the publications , devoted to serial tales illustrative of every wicked passion that disgraces
VOL . XIII . H
Intoxicating Reading. 105
INTOXICATING READING . 105
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/33/
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