The Temperance Reform Vindicated
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Excerpt from The Temperance Reform Vindicated: An Address Delivered Before the Temperance Societies of Charleston, on the 4th of July, 1843 Fellow-Citizens: Up to a very late period in the history of the world, there seemed to be no victories thought worthy of commemoration, but the victories of war. Nothing could fill the diseased fancies of men but dwelling on vulgar conflicts of animal ferocity, in which it was the whole ambition of the race to bring themselves down to a level with the brutes that perish. In their thirst for each others blood, they never stopped to think if their faculties could not be applied to some more useful and more dignified occupation than the art of mutual destruction. To aggravate the common misery was the common end. The human passions and the human mind seemed equally bent on one great business of carrying out a system of violence and wrong, which was to propagate wretchedness from age to age, pouring out its vials of unintermitted wrath, till that predicted time might come, "when men shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks, - when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." No importance, no dignity, comparatively, was attached to the cultivation of those arts of peace and those social virtues, which are the only true foundation of either national greatness or national welfare. The warrior, with his iron heel and blood-stained banner, was the idol of popular veneration. Thanks to the spread of knowledge and true religion, we may perceive, in these latter days, signs of better things for poor human nature. The streak of a faint crepuscular dawn may be seen along the morning sky: - The long night of ignorance and wrong is drawing to its close. The sanguinary strifes of ambition, cupidity and revenge, which have made up almost the whole past history of the world, are coming to be regarded as things that rather disgrace than honor humanity. 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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