Temperance Progress of the Century (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Temperance Progress of the Century Wine hath the strength of fire when to man It entereth in; and like Boreas Or Notus, rolling up the Libyan sea In mighty waves till all the depths lie bare, - So doth it ever-set the minds of men, - Eratosthenes. Whenever the original of any peculiarly far-reaching depravity is enshrouded in mystery, it seems to be customary among Christians to charge it to the account of the Arabs. In this way, the origin of the word "alcohol" is ascribed to them. Probably alcohol is the Chaldaic cohol (Hebrew kaal) with the Arabic intensifier al, and signifies the pure spirit. So high an authority as Samuel Morewood credits this theory of the origin of the word. Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire expresses the opinion that the Arabs first "invented and named the alembic for the purpose of distillation." 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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