MOKAL AND SPIRITUAL VIEW. 



DETERIORATING INFLUENCE. 



According to a New York doctor, "The universal 

 experience of all mankind will attest, and the 

 intelligent observation of every individual will 

 confirm, the statement that, precisely in the ratio 

 that persons indulge in narcotic stimulants, the 

 mental powers are unbalanced, the lower propen- 

 sities acquire undue and inordinate activity at the 

 expense, not only of the vital stamina, but also of 

 the moral and intellectual nature. The whole being 

 is not only perverted, but introverted and retro- 

 verted. Tobacco-using, even more than liquor- 

 drinking disqualifies the mind for exercising its 

 intuitions concerning the right and wrong: it 

 degrades the moral sense below the intellectual 

 recognitions." 



It is the testimony of Dr. Lizars that "in some 

 instances the starting-point of a criminal career 

 dates from the first indulgence of the tobacco-vice, 

 — producing by slow degrees, when acting upon 

 a constitution still extremely flexible, a complete 



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