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and erratic mind ; a deranged condition of organic 

 atoms, which elevates the animalism of future being 

 at the expense of the moral and intellectual na- 

 ture." 



Brodie : " This is a sin which afflicts the third 

 and fourth generation." 



Spain is one vast tobacco shop, which fact is 

 said to account largely for the degeneracy of the 

 nation. So long ago as the sixteenth century, 

 the sultan Amarath inflicted severe punishment on 

 those who used tobacco, from its known effects in 

 deteriorating and depleting the population. In 

 a report of the Medical Director of the United 

 States Navy, we find the following testimony on 

 the same point : " The pernicious effect of tobacco 

 on the generative function is authoritatively asserted 

 by Acton, who declared, — * I am quite sure that 

 excessive smokers, if very young, never acquire, 

 and, if older, rapidly lose, their normal virile 

 powers.'" 



A good man, unconscious of the wrong he was 

 doing, smoked for many a year, often suffering 

 intensely, but without understanding the cause. 

 A tract on the subject, which fell into his hands, 

 brought him needed light and led him to give up 

 tobacco. This prolonged his life, but the change 

 came too late for his son, who, as a consequence of 

 his father's habit, inherits an impaired constitution. 

 A life-long sufferer on this account, he is untiring in 

 his efforts to convince others of the great evil of the 

 tobacco habit, declaring that he is " before Richmond 



