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

Ap9pendices.
his color (eye-bubble) in the cup, when it moveth itself
aright (in straight lines); for at the last it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
Pythagoras.-" Pythagoras laid down such rules as he
thought most conducive to maintain tranquillity of mind.
He allowed no beverage but water."
PI'ilo.-" The truly wise man aims to offer abstemious
sacrifices, steadfastly setting himself, in the firmness of
his mind, against wine and every course of folly."
Plato applauds the Carthaginian law against using wine
in the camp, and considers it applicable to magistrates
during their year of office, and to judges, and to those
deliberating on any business of importance, and to persons generally during the daytime. "M lany other cases
a person might mention in which wine ought not to be
drunk by those who possess understanding and a correct
rule of action."
PliZy the ELder. (See extract on page 30.)
Among English philosophers of eminence, Sir Isaac
Alewtoni, _ohit Locke, and Robert Boyle were examples
of remarkable abstemiousness, amounting almost to
total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. When
composing his treatise upon optics, Sir Isaac used water
only as a beverage; and Locke, in his writings, strongly
recommended abstinence, especially in the physical
training of the young. Dr. SmzoZiell, the historian and
novelist, says (in his "Travels through France and Italy "),
" The longer I live, the more I am convinced that wine
and all fermented liquors are pernicious to the human
constitution; and that, for the preservation of health,
and exhilaration of the spirits, there is no beverage comparable to simple water." Dr. Saminel yohiison abstained
for considerable periods from intoxicating drinks with
great advantage to his mind and feelings, and alwNays resolutely contended for the wisdom of this course.
Dr. Tizomzas Reid wrote: " Besides the appetites which
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