CHAPTER XIV 



TOBACCO AND GENIUS 



Connection between tobacco and thought — -Elizabeth's a smok- 

 ing age — Raleigh, Spenser, and Shakespeare — Bacon — 

 Hobbes — Isaac Newton^Non-smokers tyrants — Cromwell 

 — Milton — Izaak Walton — Penn the Quaker — Smoking 

 theologians — Dr. Parr— Pope and Swift — Dr. Johnson — 

 Charles Lamb — Cowper — Byron — Scott — Frederick the 

 Great — Napoleon's futile attempt to smoke — Talleyrand's 

 dictum — Snuff = diplomacy — Bismarck — Moltke — Mazzini — 

 Mr. Gladstone's hatred of tobacco — Dickens and Thackeray 

 — Kingsley — Tennyson's devotion — Swinburne's abhorrence 

 — Carlyle's philosophy of smoke — Ruskin — Lytton — Oliver 

 Wendell Holmes— Huxley— ' R. L. S.'—Daudet— Zola's ex- 

 planation — Mark Twain—Smokers of to-day — Spurgeon — 

 Pius IX. — The King's dilemma — Political smokers. 



' I owe to smoking, more or less, 

 Through life the whole of my success. 

 With trusty pipe I'm sage and wise ; 

 Without I'm dull as cloudy skies. 

 When smoking all my ideas soar ; 

 When not they sink upon the floor. 

 The greatest men have all been smokers, 

 And so were all the greatest jokers.' 



Anonymous, circa 1835. 



The connection between tobacco and thought, 

 smoking and scholarship, has always been evident, 



