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Bad Effects Of Spiritous Liquors, Especially Among The Lower Ranks.
part of his duty . In vain will priests preach , or magistrates punish , if the orh ' -o m ' ali is not removed . Remove the cause , and the effects will in time cease . Let the distilleries then , those contaminating fountains , from whence such poisonous streams issue , be , it not wholly , at least in a great measure , prohibited ; annihilate unlisenced ' tilinghouses and dram-shopsthose haunts of vicethose
sepp - , , minaries of wickedness , where the young of both sexes are early seduced from the path of innocence and virtue , and from whence they may too often date their dreadful doom , when , instead of " runnino- the fair career of life" with credit to themselves , and advantage to society , they are immolated on the altar of public justice . In reply to these remarks , it may be said , perhaps , " That disand that
tilleries are a home market for barley , " & c . , " they are veryproductive sources of revenue . " Perish for ever those gams , and that revenue , however productive , which are levied from the ruins of the peace , of the prosperity , and virtue of the empire ! This is supporting Government , bv administering what may ultimately subvert and operate the downfall of our venerable Constitution . In
order to support Government , must what is leading fast to destroy the vitals of the Constitution be tolerated ? This is like a physician taking fees from his patients for administering poison . Dr . Sangrado ' s system of bleeding and warm water , in all cases , is not more absurd . See Gil Bias . Beer is the natural and the wholesome beverage 01 the country . to the
Instead of inflaming the passions , and prompting men commission of every crime , like whiskey , beer nourishes the body without producing any dismal effects . When breweries are encouraged , ; ind distilleries , the direful sources of much human misery , areabohshed , the useful part of the community will be reclaimed from thenvitiated taste , and will quench their thirst at purer and more salubrious fountains .
To The Editor. On The Effects Of Tragedy.
TO THE EDITOR . ON THE EFFECTS OF TRAGEDY .
A RISTOTLE , in his Discourse on Poetry , ch . vi . declares for ii tragedy in preference to all the other kinds of writing ; . and says ^ that , by ° the means of moving pity and terror , it purges the mind of these perturbations . 1 have always thought this passage very obscure ; it looks as if it meant that the spectators , by accustoming themselves to calamitous objects on the stageshould learn not to be moved by
, them in real life . If this was his intention , it is by no means a good moral effect , and does not at all seem to recommend tragedy . Besides , the pleasure we receive from it ceases , when we have worn out the disposition to receive those impressions ,
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Bad Effects Of Spiritous Liquors, Especially Among The Lower Ranks.
part of his duty . In vain will priests preach , or magistrates punish , if the orh ' -o m ' ali is not removed . Remove the cause , and the effects will in time cease . Let the distilleries then , those contaminating fountains , from whence such poisonous streams issue , be , it not wholly , at least in a great measure , prohibited ; annihilate unlisenced ' tilinghouses and dram-shopsthose haunts of vicethose
sepp - , , minaries of wickedness , where the young of both sexes are early seduced from the path of innocence and virtue , and from whence they may too often date their dreadful doom , when , instead of " runnino- the fair career of life" with credit to themselves , and advantage to society , they are immolated on the altar of public justice . In reply to these remarks , it may be said , perhaps , " That disand that
tilleries are a home market for barley , " & c . , " they are veryproductive sources of revenue . " Perish for ever those gams , and that revenue , however productive , which are levied from the ruins of the peace , of the prosperity , and virtue of the empire ! This is supporting Government , bv administering what may ultimately subvert and operate the downfall of our venerable Constitution . In
order to support Government , must what is leading fast to destroy the vitals of the Constitution be tolerated ? This is like a physician taking fees from his patients for administering poison . Dr . Sangrado ' s system of bleeding and warm water , in all cases , is not more absurd . See Gil Bias . Beer is the natural and the wholesome beverage 01 the country . to the
Instead of inflaming the passions , and prompting men commission of every crime , like whiskey , beer nourishes the body without producing any dismal effects . When breweries are encouraged , ; ind distilleries , the direful sources of much human misery , areabohshed , the useful part of the community will be reclaimed from thenvitiated taste , and will quench their thirst at purer and more salubrious fountains .
To The Editor. On The Effects Of Tragedy.
TO THE EDITOR . ON THE EFFECTS OF TRAGEDY .
A RISTOTLE , in his Discourse on Poetry , ch . vi . declares for ii tragedy in preference to all the other kinds of writing ; . and says ^ that , by ° the means of moving pity and terror , it purges the mind of these perturbations . 1 have always thought this passage very obscure ; it looks as if it meant that the spectators , by accustoming themselves to calamitous objects on the stageshould learn not to be moved by
, them in real life . If this was his intention , it is by no means a good moral effect , and does not at all seem to recommend tragedy . Besides , the pleasure we receive from it ceases , when we have worn out the disposition to receive those impressions ,