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corrupting influences. This method of 

 converting water into a fermented bever- 

 age by the extraction of the spirit of 

 grain is unknown to the Spaniards and 

 Italians, and in my native country of 

 Germany I have only found a few, in the 

 Rhenish districts, who understand such 

 Art. 



Afterwards a new separation takes 

 place by means of Clarification. A little 

 yeast is added to the beer, which stirs up 

 its internal heat and motion, and thus, in 

 time, the gross is separated from the 

 subtle, and the pure from the impure. 

 The beer thereby becomes a perfect 

 beverage of great efficacy ; before this 

 clarification this would not be, because 

 such operative spirit was clogged and 

 hindered by its own uncleanness from 

 fulfilling its objects. Does not experi- 

 ence teach the same lesson in the case of 

 wine? It is not perfect, nor can it 

 properly fulfil its object, till it has been 

 freed from all impurity. Unclarified 

 beer or wine is not half so intoxicating 

 as beer or wine when it is purified. 



