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is uniformly fatal within a few years --- trades in which that who follow them are liable to loathesome and torturing discease [sic] --- all are filled by the enlistment of an unfailing series of recruits ....... If mental ignorance and physical degeneracy, be evils dangerous to society then these results cannot and must not be trusted ro the instincts of individual men ............................

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Power has been given to man to control such evils, and he is bound to [crossed out] (obey) use it. By the strong arm of the law which means the law of Conscience and of Reason asserting itself over the lower instincts of our nature ... If under such conditions of society, higher motives are ever to prevail, they must be supplied from without and must be imposed in authoritative form through the legitimate organs of Positive Institution.

This strain of argument bears forcibly on the drinking habits of a large portion of the human family, as well as to the over worked factory women and children

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........... If I may be very absurd, nay very immoral, to be teazed [sic] by trifles; but alas! while you remain in the dust, reason as you may, it will annoy you; and there is no help for it, but to retire into a higher and grassier region, where the sultry road is visible from afar ... We must go in contemplation out of life ere we can see how its troubles subside, and are lost like evanescent waves, in the deeps of eternity and the immensity of God. A mind that can make this migration from the scense [scene] by which it is surrounded, is removed from all vain strife of will, and gains its tranquility without an effort; feels no difficulty in being gentle and serene, but rather wonders that is [it] could ever be tempted from into pure repose. How [crossed out] (would it of) welcome would it often be to many a child of anxiety and toil, to be suddenly transferred transferred [sic] from "the heat and sin of the city, the restlessness and worry of the mart, to the midnight garden or the mountain tops." And like refreshment does a high faith, with its infinite prospects ever open to the heart, afford to the worn and weary; no laborious travels are needed for the devout mind; for it carries within it Alpine

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Alpine heights and starlit skies which it may reach with a moment's thought, and feel at once the loneliness of nature, and the magnificence of God.

...................... Great Principles & Small

................................................. Duties

............................. By James Martineau

Seek ye then the things that are above, where your life is hid with Christ in God. ..... ibid

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There was a time when drunkenness was as rare in England as it is now in France or Spain ... Eighty millions a year are now spent among us upon wine and spirits and malt liquor.

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................................. The result is that half the children born in England die before they are five years old. .................................

............. The brewing interests, the publican interests, moneyed interests generally, are too powerful in the House of Commons for a minister to dare to offend them. The Ministers in general too faithfully represent the body which gives them their being. There is scarcely a constituency in England which if offered a choice between St Paul and Dives [Latin for "riches"] would not return Dives by an overwhelming majority. ................

................................ Great wealth is regarded with the self surrendering and devotion which used to be felt for God Almighty."

....................... England's War.

.......................... Fraser's Magazine.

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Most men can see large things but it takes clever ones to see the little . . . . . . . . . . . . .

To learn how to see and delight in little things as well as large, is, in fact, to make no slight progress both in true intelligence and in aptitude for genuine pleasure

.......................... Grinston