Excerpt from The Divine Law as to Wines: Established by the Testimony of Sages, Physicians, and Legislators Against the Use of Fermented and Intoxicating Wines, Confirmed by Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Methods of Preparing Unfermented Wines for Festal, Medicinal, and Sacramental Uses
The work to which the attention of thinking men is here invited was the suggestion of childhood's attestation; and has been the study of a long life amid most responsible charges. The original volume was the result of five years' special investigation on behalf of the "National Temperance Society," whose publishing house is at 58 Reade Street, New York. The first Supplement was prepared at their request. The necessity for more extended and exhaustive statements of fact has led to its committal to the writer, and its adaptation to a new class of readers.
Scientists are invited to an examination whose results have led to Pasteur's election as a member of the French Academy. Physicians are interested; since the ablest men in their profession are returning to the practice of ancient Greek medical men, who employed intoxicating wines only as an an?sthetic. Statesmen are awakened to new responsibilities; since the records of pauperism and crime are causing a return, in France, England, and America, to Grecian and Roman "prohibition," as the only safeguard from the perversion of "license;" meant to be a protection to society, but really an invitation to prey upon the defenceless.
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