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

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nature hath given us, for useful and necessary purposes,
we may create appetites which nature never gave us.
The frequent use of things which stimulate the nervous
system produces a languor when their effect is gone off,
and a desire to repeat them. Such are the appetites which
some men acquire for the use of tobacco, for opiates, and
for intoxicating liquors."
'eremzy Bentham wrote to a friend, "I am a single man,
turned of 70, and as free from melancholy as man need be.
Wine I drink none, being in that particular of the persuasion of Jonadab, the son of Rechab." Wigi/ztm Cobbell
wrote: "In the midst of a society where wine and spirits
are considered of more value than water, I have lived
two years with no other drink but water, except when I
have found it convenient to obtain milk. Not an hour's
illness, not a headache for an hour, not the smallest ailment, not a restless night, not a drowsy morning, have I
known during these two famous years of my life."
Towmas De Quzncey wrote in eulogistic terms of the
modern temperance movement: " It has attained both at
home and abroad a national range of grandeur." Lora
'rotzgIami highly commended temperance efforts, and was
a Vice-President of the United Kingdom Alliance.
lHoioer represents Hector as refusing the cup of wine
offered him by his mother Hecuba, as sure to relax his
vigor; and Pope, in commenting on this passage, observes
that "it is a vulgar mistake to iimagine the use of wine
either rouses the spirits or increases strength. The best
physicians agree with Homier on this point, whatever
modern writers may object to this old heroic regimen."
Pz'izdar opens his first Ode with the words, ArI/s/on men
fatd6r —" Water truly is the best!" Afzl/onz, in his " Paradise Lost," his " Samson Agonistes," his Sonnets, and particularly his "Comus," shows his appreciation of the
strictest temperance, and his life corresponded with his
doctrine. He rarely used any intoxicating liquors. These
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