THE VINE AND CIVILISATION. 17 
mankind, and re-class them according to certain rules—this is 
all their plan. In looking very closely into these ingenious 
systems, it is impossible to see anything else than a plan of the 
idle to rob the industrious worker —to feed the drones on the 
honey produced by the working bees ; this must be the definite 
result of all these systems of socialism and communism. It is 
useless to add that any trials to realize these systems have lasted 
no longer than the time required to consume the social funds 
placed in the community by the credulous disciples. Of the 
produce of the associated work there can be no question. The 
lazy have not worked in the new social order, having remained 
idle as before ; the industrious man soon relaxes work, because 
he comprehends that he is the dupe whose work and activity 
goes to the support of the idle.’’ - 
Our professor might have added, in regard to the more modern 
strike to raise wages to a uniform rate, that the inept and the 
trifler claim to be paid the same as the competent and ener- 
getic workman — a community or combination of strikers thus 
annihilating all incentive to individual excellence and perfec- 
tion. Can it be the interest of a really good and skillful work- 
man to join a band of strikers? The degree of the civilisation 
of a people is always in proportion to the quality and temper- 
ate use of the wine they consume. Brillat de Savarin, the cele- 
brated author of the ‘‘ Physiology of Taste,’’ has written these 
memorable words: ‘‘ Tell me what a man eats, and I will tell 
you what he is.’’ This intelligent magistrate came near the 
truth, but he would have demonstrated the naked truth if he 
had written: ‘‘ Tell me what you drink, and I will tell you 
what you are.’ 
‘*I proceed to demonstrate historically and physiologically 
that the use of good wine can alone produce these great and 
luminous developments of the human mind, which, at divers 
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