BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



ALCOHOLISM: 



A STUDY IN HEREDITY. 



By G. AECHDALL REID, M.B, C.M., F.E.S.E. 



Author of "The Present Evolution of Man" 



PRICE 6s. NET. 



" Mr. G. Archdall Reid has gone far to demonstrate, if indeed he has not completely 

 demonstrated, that the bulk of existing temperance effort and legislation is quite wrongly 

 conceived, futile, and probably positively disastrous in its ultimate tendency. . . . The 

 method of broad generalization employed by Mr. Reid necessarily opens many issues 

 beyond that on which his arguments are centred. His discussion of the influence of 

 infectious and contagious diseases on the spread of the Anglo-Saxon race, for example, is 

 brilliantly compact and clear. For many this book should be as richly suggestive as any 

 book I know. It is not only the exposition of the attitude of a certain school of scientific 

 men, the legitimate successors of Darwin and Huxley, towards a very typical public 

 question, but it is an example of the general method of the school. It is, indeed, a very 

 notable book." MR. H. G. WELLS in The Morning Post. 



"For the arguments by which Dr. Reid seeks to establish his opinions we must refer the 

 reader to the volume which contains them, and in which they are stated with great force 

 and clearness, and supported by a large amount of evidence conveniently disposed in 

 appendices. The chain is not free from defective links ; but the book contains ample food 

 for reflection, and can hardly fail to lead to the reconsideration of many popularly accepted 

 views." The Times. 



" Mr. Reid has certainly succeeded in writing a remarkable and startling book. . . . This 

 interesting, well-informed, and in parts almost brilliantly-written book. . . . Mr. Reid 

 lays bare some of the terrible evils of civilization with so much honesty, skill, and courage." 

 The Daily News. 



"A vigorous and refreshing contribution to the interminable drink controversy has been 

 made by Mr. G. Archdall Reid. ... He wields the Darwinian cudgel with no feeble hand ; 

 and knocks down a good many time-honoured but flabby old fallacies in a merciless fashion." 

 The Standard. 



" Of the ability with which, step by step, he builds up his argument, this bald summary 

 conveys no idea. Neither does it convey an idea of the concentrated passion with which at 

 times he enforces it. Whatever the faults of the book may be and some of the scientific 

 questions raised will hardly be allowed to pass unchallenged it cannot be charged with 

 being dull." The Sheffield Telegraph. 



" A thoughtful scientific study, the result of which, if perhaps likely to startle an orthodox 

 temperance reformer, will scarcely surprise those who have approached the consideration of 

 the subject without prejudice." The Scotsman. 



" A paradoxical book, but highly interesting." The Spectator. 



" Startling, full of original thought and daring suggestion . . . will be popular with all 

 classes of society scientists will welcome it, to medical men it is an education, and to the 

 general public it presents the whole subject of evolution and natural selection in a manner 

 that has never before been accomplished," DR. A. MEARNS FRASKR in The Portsmouth 

 Evening News. 



"An epoch-making book. ... It is a striking production ; beyond question the most 

 important contribution to the evolution theory since ' The Origin of Species ' and ' Descent 

 of Man.' "Southern Daily Mail. 



" Peculiarly interesting . . . pursued with a daring and brilliant persistency. "The New 

 York Journal. 



" Dr. Archdall Reid may properly be called a strong writer. He has an easy flow of 

 somewhat forcible language, he sets his ideas before his readers in quite unequivocal terms, 

 and his ideas are fairly crisp and definite. . . . This book is a veritable trailing of the coat 

 in the Donnybrook Fair of teetotal controversy, and we shall be considerably surprised if 

 some of our total abstinence friends do not tread on the tail of it." The Hospital. 



11 Well known as a thinker, intrepid and audacious in his originality, lucid and peculiarly 

 attractive in logical force and the daring presentation of his opinions." DR. J. N. KELYNACK 

 in The Temperance Record. 



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