An Address to the Society of Friends on the Temperance ReformationE. Fry and Son, 1839 - 16 pagina's |
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Pagina 9 - It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak.
Pagina 16 - Anatomy, physiology and the experience of all ages and countries, when properly examined, must satisfy every mind well informed in medical science that the above opinion is altogether erroneous. Man, in ordinary health, like other animals, requires not any such stimulants, and cannot be benefited by the habitual employment of any quantity of them, large or small ; nor will their use during his life-time increase the aggregate amount of his labor. In whatever quantity they are employed they will rather...
Pagina 16 - ... An opinion handed down from rude and ignorant times, and imbibed by Englishmen from their youth, has become very general, that the habitual use of some portion of alcoholic drink, as of wine, beer or spirit, is beneficial to health, and even necessary to those who are subjected to habitual labor.
Pagina 16 - When he is in a state of temporary debility from illness, or other causes, a temporary use of them, as of other stimulant medicines, may be desirable; but as soon as he is raised to his natural standard of health, a continuance of their use can do no good to him, even in the most moderate quantities, while larger quantities (yet such as by many persons are thought moderate) do sooner or later prove injurious to the human constitution, without any exceptions. " It is my opinion, that the above statement...
Pagina 5 - ... physical and moral, or in extent proportioned to population. I have named spirit-drinking ; it is the great proximate cause of this dreadful evil. Every tenth house in Glasgow was a spirit shop at the last census ; and in the artisan districts the propertion must have been one to seven ! The tee-total societies are making most strenuous efforts for the salvation of the working-classes, and, on the whole, I am disposed to consider them the most effectively useful body now in existence in this...
Pagina 6 - In the third report of the New British and Foreign Temperance Society...
Pagina 15 - The following document has already been signed by the highly distinguished individuals whose names are attached to it, and it is still in the course of signature.
Pagina 9 - ... expression of reason. Consequently the exercise of force for the maintenance of Law against lawbreakers is in principle the subjection of force to reason. Reason is not a term synonymous with Christianity. But Christianity by its own nature claims reason as its ally, its interpreter, its agent in the application of the principles of the Gospel to the affairs of life.
Pagina 12 - ... it would have done, had their influence continued to be exerted on the British population ; but unless the incentives to crime be removed, punishing it will only be like trying to pump out a river that threatens inundation to a country, whilst the remedy of turning the course of the springs that supply it is neglected.
Pagina 7 - Meeting has been brought under renewed concern respecting the dreadful evils which result to the community from intemperance, and especially from distilled spirits. from the use of ardent spirits : and it recommends to Friends individually, seriously to examine what it is in their power to do towards diminishing this fruitful source of evil. We consider that abstaining from the use of distilled spirits, except for...