The Philosophy of Drunkenness, and Its Cure (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Drunkenness, and Its CureThe hygienic philosophy oi' treating disease, deals with the whole question of drunkenness, as respects its cause and cure, from an entirely different angle of observation and of thought. Startmg out with the statement that drunkenness is the result of a diseased state of the organic nervous system, and that moderate drinking is directly calculated to produce such a dis eased state of that nervous system, and therefore legitimately in¿uential in the production of drunkenness, its advocates pro pose to put an entire st0p to drunkenness, by inducing those who drink, whether to intoxication or not, to be treated either as having a disease, or as having the incipient conditions out of which the disease will ultimately grow. In treating the drink er of spirituous liquors from the point of his essential morbid conditions, they do not propose to relieve him from his moral responsibility, but they do propose to change the point at which that moral responsibility arises and rests.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.