174 TOBACCO: ITS HISTORY. 



generation of carbonic acid gas alone for the 

 support of vegetation, to say nothing of the 

 known curative virtues of tobacco to plants by 

 fumigation, and to animals by lotion, against 

 insects and other plagues, is well worthy of con- 

 sideration in advancing to right conclusions on 

 this important subject. 



The benefits of tobacco, as a social modificator, 

 are, on all sides, incontestably admitted. My 

 own views on this universal habit of the human 

 race I have submitted to the reader, and per- 

 haps I may have an opportunity to enlarge upon 

 the subject in its general bearings, apart from 

 the individual gratification by which it is so 

 strikingly attended ; though, doubtless, many of 

 the sequences of my theory will be inferred by 

 the thoughtful reader, if my convictions be, as I 

 hope, in accordance with the known laws of 

 Nature in her mundane economy. 



" Frui paratis et valido mihi, 

 Lato€, dones, — et j)recor, integva 



Ciuii mente, — nee turpem senectam 

 Degere, nee a cigar carentem." 



THE END. 



