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whose blood and socretion.s arc saturated witli Tol)ncco, and 

 Avdioso brain and nervous Rvst(Mn are somi narcotizo-l '-v it/nuist 

 transmit to liis cliild elements of a dist.Muprred lK,dv and mntie 

 imnd." "We may also take warnini^," says Sir JJ^-njaniin 

 Brodie, -from the Iiistory of anothei- n*,tion, who, while fol- 

 lowing the banners of Solyman the ?da-niHeont, were ihv terror 

 of Chiistondom, but who since tlum have become moro addiel(.d 

 to Tobacco smoking than anv of th.. Kr.ropr.an nati.^ns, are now 

 the lazy and IetLa,-ic Tiulcs, lield in conlenipt hv all eivilized 

 communities.'- Indeed weiv it not that moiiiers".M,e j^oneially 

 of purer life and bloo.l than fathers, the deplorable uvsuKs to- 

 olTsi.ring would be ^■astiy o-poater than they are. Quotatir,ns 

 un-ht he -iv^Mi from many eompetmt (o ].ronoune<^ Avith 

 authority upon the suhj.rt, but enouirh kes been said to con- 

 vince a-iyoue willing to be convinced that ih-' practie- is ovil 

 and ought not to l)e indulged in. 



4: I <lo not use Tobacco because I beli.ve ir impairs the Jfr>>- 

 ful roarers. The Scalpel says : '• Jf tl).re is a vice n,ore pms- 

 tratmg to the body and uiisid, and more cnicilying to all Ike 

 sympathies of man's spiritual natui'e, we hnv(>'^yet to ke con 

 vinced of it." The Dublin T'niversitv Magazine evpres^^es 

 Itself thus: -The mental power of many a boy u wo;dcen(d 

 l)y Tobacco smoking. For all reasons it i. d.'si'.-abie tkat our 

 rising gcu.eratimi .should be abstainers hnm ToI)a< eo." '• it is 

 ruinous to intellect," .ays Dr. Stephenson, -delHoiiMus lo the 

 brain and nervous system." A mini.st.T of ripe talents an.l 

 splendul oratory h^arned. to .moke, t<H,k to drink, raid di(<l in a 

 luaddmuse, hlas]-heming the very Savioui' he liad pr.vadied. The 

 jmstor of a Kew Knglan.l clnirch jx^'sisted in the use of Tobacco 

 tdl delirium set im ^ ^ =:= " Ho 1,ecame an imhecile and 

 <lK'd a fool." Lunacy in France has kept pace with the inei ease 

 oi the revenue fron. Tobacco, ::nd what is tnw of i^Van.-e is 

 true, other things In ing e.jual, of al! other places. And it is 

 not saying too much that cases come under our own obs.Tva- 

 tiou wJiidi prove beyond a .shadow of a (had.t that intellectual 



