The School News and Practical Educator Volume 14 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...sick or left them so, since the days of Hippocrates. Let us take a broader view of my beneficial influence on mankind. _ No; these are trifles compared with the merits which wise men concede to me--if not in my sin le self, yet as the representative of a class--o being the grand reformer of the age. From my spout, and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still. In this might enterprise, the cow shall be my great confe erate. Milk and water The Town PUMP and the Cow Such is the glorious copartnership that shall tear down the distilleries and brewhouses, uproot the vineyards, shatter the cider presses, ruin the tea and coffee trade, and, finally, monopolize the whole business of quenching thirst. Blessed consummation Then, Poverty shall pass away from the land, finding no hovel so wretched where her squalid form may shelter itself. Then Disease, for lack of other victims, shall naw its own heart, and die. Then Sin, if she o not die, shall lose half her strength. Until now, the frenzy of hereditary fever has raged in the human blood, transmitting from sire to son, and rekindled, in every generation, by fresh drau hts of liquid flame. When that inward fire sha l be extin ished, the heat of passion cannot but grow coo, and warthe drunkenness of nations--perhaps will cease. At least, there will be no war of households. The husband and wife, drinking deep of peaceful joy, --a calm bliss of temperate affections, shall pass hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluctantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, nor the future an eternit of such moments as..