The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

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stainer, and fully sympathlize with every movement calculated to put down the monster evil of intemperance."
Zi,smnerm;an (Physician to Frederick the Great of Prussia). —" Water is the most suitable drink for man, and
does not chill the ardor of genius."
H.
CASES OF LONGEVITY IN CONNECTION WITII ABSTINENCE
FROMI INTOXICATING DRINKS.
[The late Sir Cornewall Lewis was sceptical as to all cases ofreputed longevity exceeding a hundred years. A tendency to exaggeration may be admitted in regard to extreme old age; but the following examples will be perused
with interest, whatever allowance on the score of excess may be supposed
necessary in the instances of extraordinary duration of human life. It is
sometimes urged that persons who use intoxicating liquors sometimes live to
very great old age, as occasionally those who indulge freely in them; yet the
latter cannot be supposed to have escaped all injury from them. In not a few
cases, as in those of Old Parr and Dr. Holyoke, of America, the use of intoxicating drink can be shown to have abridged even a term of life in itself
of wonderful extent. Bishop Berkeley designated old topers who do not
seem injured by their potations "the devil's decoy-ducks "; and that they
are mere exceptions (if this can be claimed even for them) to a great physiological rule which connects shortened life with indulgence in strong drink, is
strikingly illustrated in the anecdote told by Dr. Chleyne, of Dublin, of a
gentleman far advanced in years, who boasted that he had drunk several
bottles of wvine every day for fifty years, and was as hale and hearty as ever.
" Pray," asked a bystander, "where are your boon c-onpanions?" "Ah!"
he quickly replied, "that's another affair; if the truth may be told, I have
burled three entire generations of them."]
ACCORDING to Herodotus, the ancient 3Vacrobrans
("long-livers ") attained the age of a hundred and a hundred and twenty years; they used milk as their beverage.
The same longevity is stated to have been usual among
the North American Indians when first discovered, and
when they were ignorant of all intoxicating drinks.
The great age of the Hindoo Brahmins, and of the
ancient philosophic and Christian herzmits, is proved by
indisputable evidence; and their avoidance of all inebri
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