Appeal to the British Nation, on the Greatest Reform
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Excerpt from Appeal to the British Nation, on the Greatest Reform: Yet Remaining to Be Accomplished; Read and Adopted at the World´s Convention, Held in London, August, 1846 Fellow Countrymen, The age in which we live is called the Age of Reform; and among the nations of the earth, England takes the foremost rank amongst Reformers. The wise and the good in all countries look to it for example, and in most instances look to it with hope; but there is one Giant Evil yet to be reformed, in which its example is more pernicious than beneficial, and in which its national influence has created so vast an amount of injury, that all its energies should be put forth at once, and without an hours delay, to remove the blot from its otherwise bright escutcheon. As a people, you are intelligent - the world admits it: - but, much as you have learnt, and great as is the superiority you manifest, in arts, in science, and in commerce, you are yet, as far as the majority of your numbers is concerned, steeped in the profoundest ignorance as to the extent of injury sustained by you all, in a greater or lesser degree, by what you deem the innocent and moderate use of intoxicating drinks. As a people you are wealthy - no other people on the globe are your equals in this: - but, in no country on earth is so large a portion of that wealth utterly wasted and destroyed, as it is by usages and customs prevalent among you, in all ranks of society, from the cottage to the palace - by all ages, all professions, both sexes, and all conditions of men. As a people, you are courageous - your history has proved it: - but there is one foe whom you have not courage to front, whom you shrink from attacking - and before whose say you bend in dread and homage - the tyrant, Fashion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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