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CHAPTER IX 



THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 



FAGS 



The Jews, Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, English — 

 Polynesians and Africans — Other savages — The 

 increased per capita consumption in France — Fallacy 

 of reasoning from the per capita consumption — Pre- 

 disposition to inebriety arose in man apart from the 

 use of alcohol — Alcoholism a "disease" — Civilisa- 

 tion impossible in the absence of alcoholic evolution . 97 



CHAPTER X 



RACIAL DIFFERENCES 



Theories to account for racial differences in drinking habits 

 — Climate — Potency of alcoholic beverages — Civilisa- 

 tion — Education and training — Temperament — Re- 

 creation — The theory of alcoholic evolution alone 

 covers all the instances 113 



CHAPTER XI 



OPIUM 



Parallel between diseases and narcotics — The evolution 

 against opium more easy than that against alcohol — 

 The elimination more thorough from the beginning — 

 The evidence produced before the Royal Commission 

 on Opium . . . . . . . .127 



