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 strength, which, however dangerous and to he deprecated, all makers of fermented liquors, influenced by the public taste, seem emulous of approaching. Banish ardent spirits, and with them the vitiated appetite for high stimulants which they have created, and you contribute powerfully to bring fermented liquors to their natural state.

As I have not heard any one yet in sober earnest advance the objection that, since datewine and medicated wine of the grape are referred to in the Scripture phrase “Strong drink,” therefore the sacred writers spoke prophetically of distilled spirit, and give permission for its use when in after ages it should be discovered ; as I have only heard this objection advanced in banter, I shall not, by endeavouring to answer it, employ myself in raising ghosts for the purpose of laying them. Those who argue for the use of wine, “ touch not” the principles of Temperance Societies, for Temperance Societies have neither pronounced the use of wines to be sinful, nor have they passed any judgement respecting the expediency or inexpediency of its use under present circumstances. Against distilled spirits, the fell destroyer of their race, they wage an exterminating warfare—against distilled spirits as a common beverage, respecting which, in addition to all that has been already published, the following document has been signed by four professors of the medical faculty of the Edinburgh University, eleven members