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The Liquor Question. 



the progress of time, by the active reason and conscience of the people, 

 is what has probably given rise to the notion, just now so popular, 

 that ethical considerations do, or ought to, regulate legislation and 

 social relations. The doctrine, however, that institutions must, in the 

 course of generations, slowly change to conform to social conditions 

 and social forces, according to the mature convictions of great masses 

 of men, is a very different thing from the notion that rights and duties 

 should be at the sport of all the crude notions which, from time to 

 time, may gain the assent of even an important group of the popula- 

 tion." 



