In Peace 



in Dr. Amos G. Warner's remark, that 

 of all caustics gangrene is the most 

 expensive. The people of southern 

 Europe are relatively temperate. They 

 have used wine for centuries, and it is 

 thought by Archdall Reid and others 

 that the cause of their temperance is to 

 be found in this long use of alcoholic 

 beverages. All those with vitiated or 

 uncontrollable appetites have been de- 

 stroyed in the long experience with 

 wine, leaving only those with normal 

 tastes and normal ability of resistance. 

 The free use of wine is, therefore, in 

 this view, a cause of final temperance, 

 while intemperance rages only among 

 those races which have not long known 

 alcohol, and have not become by selec- 

 tion resistant to it. The savage races 

 which have never known alcohol are 

 even less resistant, and are soonest de- 

 stroyed by it. 



In all this there must be a certain 



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