Resuscitated

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: earth, is so closely bound up with the released soul, yet, or the latter finds itself estranged it cannot act independently. But I assure you they all advance in course of time, and some quite rapidly, after the feeling from below, not in sympathy with the place here, is suppressed. The drunkard here is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: earth, is so closely bound up with the released soul, yet, or the latter finds itself estranged it cannot act independently. But I assure you they all advance in course of time, and some quite rapidly, after the feeling from below, not in sympathy with the place here, is suppressed. The drunkard here is the better man, more open, and entertaining no malice and petty spites, like the narrow-minded shade of the other man. He acknowledged his infirmity, but could not control the powerful passion that governed his whole body while in life. TREATMENT OF INEBRIATES. It were far better if those addicted to strong drink, whether rich or poor, were treated similar to the insane; that is, confined and treated by experienced medical practitioners. Many would be redeemed if removed from temptation, and the will to indulge in strong drink has been hemmed in. Much misery would thereby be wiped out, and millions of dollars left in the possession of those to whom it originally belonged. A drunken man is often far more dangerous than the insane human being; why, then, should not society protect itself from such vice by bringing them under control of the law, without distinction, rich and poor, high and low, receiving a similar treatment? Private institutions have shown the benefit in this overshadowing vice of your nation; therefore to make it more general in the United States, and in fact all civilized countries, a law should be enacted which would secure the patient at proper places until cured. This also may be applied to opium smoking, another detested vice fast growing into use in your State, and in fact the United States. To proceed with our subject, in giving the history of the two beings in this cell I mentioned that the temperance man was not a temperate man, but in this contes...