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for the wine press. We are no disciples of Dr. 

 Whitaker,* but we are equally far from being prose- 

 lytes of Father Matthew, and although the use of 

 wine, like that of all other good gifts, may be abused, 

 yet we never saw sufficient cause for concluding 

 David was wrong when he gave thanks to God for 

 " wine which maketh glad the heart of man," or that 

 St. Paul was erring when he bade his fellow workman 

 " to use a little wine" to strengthen him under his 

 infirmities. 



* Dr. Whitaker published in 1638, " The Tree of Human 

 Life, or the Blood of the Grape," and there expresses his 

 opinion that the name, Vinum, is derived a vi from its strength, 

 or, perhaps, quasi divinum, because it is a species of the tree of 

 life in Paradise. The intention of this curious little book is to 

 prove that, by the judicious use of various wines, life may be 

 prolonged from infancy to old age without disease. 



WOOLDRIDGE, PRINTER, WINCHESTER. 



