Excerpt from Textbook of Temperance
1. "It is an ancient artifice of fraud," says Dean South, "to prepossess the mind by representing bad things under a good name." Hence the need of revising our definitions and verifying them by comparison with facts. - Temperance is a word in everybody's mouth; yet what particular actions it commands, or forbids, and why, are points generally unsettled. This is rather owing to the fact that people are not taught to think in a precise method, than to anything hard or obscure in the nature of the subject itself. A very simple process of reasoning will bring every honest and candid mind to the true use of words upon this matter. All persons are agreed that Temperance is at least a moral virtue, and consequently concerns a course of life dictated by the intellectual and moral powers. It is the governing of passion and appetite; therefore, it can never be the mere gratification of them. What virtue is there in doing what one merely likes to do, and what is pleasant or natural to do?
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