Hartley, R: Intemperance in Cities and Large Towns

Excerpt from Intemperance in Cities and Large Towns: Showing Its Physical, Social, and Moral Effects; Also the Means for Its Prevention and RemovalNor are the ravages of intemperance, as has been intimated, limited to the civilized and nomi nally Christian portions of the earth. A glance at the habits of semi-civilized and barbarous nations will show, that the desire for exhilaration, and ia dulgence in inebriating drugs, is universal. The rude hordes of Eastern Asia extract from a species of the ¿mgi, or mushroom, an intoxicating liquor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.