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

Appecndices.
words of his are ever memorable: "Who can be ignorant
that, if the importation of wine and the use of all strong
drinks were forbid, it would both rid the possibility of
committing that odious vice, and men might afterwards
live happily and healthfully without the use of these
intoxicating liquors?" Shakes.eare, in several of his
dramnas, depicts the miseries of indulgence in strong
drink, and puts into Cassio's mouth the celebrated words:
"0 thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to
be called by, let us call thee Devil!" Waller, one of the
liveliest and wittiest poets of the Restoration period, was
an inflexible abstainer from all intoxicating liquors.
I7'zliaiz Cowzuer and Dr. Darwiin, very dissimilar in their
religious sentiments and poetic gifts, yet agreed in their
aversion to indulgence in strong drinks; and the latter
was both a disciple and earnest advocate of abstinence.
Lord Lylloiz wrote (in I846): "I agree in the main in the
principles of the temperance society, and heartily wish it
success, as having already done much good, and being
calculated to do much more."
Lord Byron confessed: " The effect of wine upon me is
to make me gloomy —gloomy at the very moment it is
taken; but it never makes me gay."
SI. Cleineni of A4exandria (A.D. i80) writes:" I admire
those who desire no other beverage than water, avoiding
wine as they do fire."
St. _erome: "Whatever inebriates and throws the mind
off its balance, fly in like manner as if it were wine.
If, without wine, my system is vigorous and wellstrung, cheerfully will I abstain from the cup which is
suspected to contain poison."
Dr. Sotlh: "Nothing is so great a friend to the mind
of man as abstinence; it strengthens the memory, clears
the apprehension, and sharpens the judgment, and, in a
word, gives reason its full scope of acting; and, when
reason has that, it is always a diligent and faithful hand
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