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108 INTOXICATING READING.
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The Evil Of Intoxicating Drink Is One Of...
it that work no s constitutional effects that sooner disturbance or later seems become to manifest ensue , and in the yet
individual We accuse , and Drink throug of h causing the community much disorder . among us , and
most truly . Its first action of rendering its victim unconscious _,, gives evil an immense advantage . In this state , men and
women surrender without resistance , and sin on to any further ex true tent to , its almost nature without conducts suffering its votaries ; but wide u Sensation awake and Reading sentient , "
, , , led into from mischief step ; to with step every and variety but too of often mental experience torture , in they reality are
the exquisite miseries , their , imaginations are , cultivated to enjoy . , To make a stand against this species of intoxication , intellectual
is and worth moral of , is our an greatest act of mercy hilanthrop to our is generation ts . Women , and whose the effort sex
is peculiarl y y liable to fall under p its sway , should deep , ly interest themselves to prevent its spread . It disgraces their intelligence
- remove in the eyes it ; of it men distracts , and , fem therefore ales from , every their woman proper is concerned occupations to ,
and As , therefore a means , to towards every man this it end is of , it consequence would be to well get to rid mark of it .
u Sensation Reading" " Dangerous . " This is as necessary asthe legal enactment compelling the druggist to put " Poison _" "
on his _deadly commodities ; and it is needful for precisely similar reasons . Injurious readinglike its chemical
representativehas no external indication of , its nature understood by the unlearned , the skilful student must affix for them the name
upon its surface ; . The tales running like wild-fire through our libraries ht to have and reading their rooms ch , and aracters issued announced by our fruitfu on their l press title , -
pages oug . The gentle proper word , " sensation , " may remain a generic term of "In , but toxicating a numerous Reading fam _" il and y should should receive be taken the with true reserva cognomen tion :
while it is earnestly recommended , , that all who recognize the article in question should circulate information about it .
True education _should embrace such training of mind as would rectify the abusesconnected with cheap literatureand it
is the absence of this that , procures such an immense consump , - tion of an adulterated kind . In order to interfere in some
its measure vitiating with stream its overflow should , it run is essential the corrective , that concurrentl supply of y good with
publications . The great utility of cheapening wholesome reading cannot be too much insisted onfor the same sum of money for
which the bad can he bought , shoul , d be sufficient to purchase the good ; and at one penny all that can make wise should be
delivered diffused , or over the to readers the enemy of . publications Every serial at the that nhaving price will for its be /
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108 Intoxicating Reading.
108 INTOXICATING READING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/36/
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