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comfort of others. The finer and nobler qualities of 

 character perish under the predominance of a habit 

 which steadily caters to one's own gratification, regardless 

 of what others think or feel. A civilization given over 

 to tobacco and spirituous liquors, as ours largely is, never 

 can ripen and refine those traits which, when aggregated 

 and multipUed, will constitute the kingdom of God on 

 the earth. 



Ifididment Seven. 



But the evil of evils of this deleterious habit is the 

 deterioration which it causes to the successive generations 

 of the human race. If the habit let go its victim at the 

 grave, and that was the end-all of its malign influence, we 

 could look with more complacency on its evil conse- 

 quences. But that is far from being the fact. The well- 

 nigh unanimous testimony of medical and scientific 

 authorities is, that the children of parents addicted to 

 the use of tobacco inherit a weakened or diseased con- 

 stitution, and are exposed to physical penalties from 

 which other, more favored children are exempt. 



In an article in the " Dublin University Magazine," the 

 authority of Herbert Spencer, Dr. Rumsey, and Dr. Mor- 

 gan is quoted in support of the position that the stamina 

 of the town populations in England has deteriorated ; and 

 among other causes, the present evil is cited. " It would 

 be foolish," says the article, " to attribute this lowering of 

 physical stamina to the sole influence of tobacco. The 

 causes which have produced this result are no doubt 

 manifold and complex ; but for the reasons we shall 

 adduce, we think it would be equally foolish to say that 

 the Indian weed had no share in it. . . . Yet fashion is 



