An Address Before the Putney (Vt.) Temperance Society: Delivered July 3, 1835
An Address Before the Putney (Vt.) Temperance Society: Delivered July 3, 1835
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ted by it. This has been done. But if every indulgence and pur- suit that does not positively contribute to the rational happiness of man, is a violation of the rule of temperance, much more must that use or <;ustom be a violation of the rule that positively dimin- ishes the amount of human happiness. And does not the use of ardent spirits positively diminish human happiness ? We are willing to admit, say some, which indeed has been satisfaotoiily proved, that ^is use does not sweU the amount, of human felicity, but we are not sure of its diminishing it. But do not habits of intemperance diminish human happiness ? Are not such habits unfavorable to the exercise of the social affections $ Look at the desolation of the drunkard^s family, and answer. Are they not unfavorable to the exercise of our faculties in the pursuit of laudable ends ? Look at that occupant of the Madhouse, raging under the influence of mama a potu^ and with the wreck of what Digitized by Google 9 was once a man before yon, answer me.
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ted by it. This has been done. But if every indulgence and pur- suit that does not positively contribute to the rational happiness of man, is a violation of the rule of temperance, much more must that use or <;ustom be a violation of the rule that positively dimin- ishes the amount of human happiness. And does not the use of ardent spirits positively diminish human happiness ? We are willing to admit, say some, which indeed has been satisfaotoiily proved, that ^is use does not sweU the amount, of human felicity, but we are not sure of its diminishing it. But do not habits of intemperance diminish human happiness ? Are not such habits unfavorable to the exercise of the social affections $ Look at the desolation of the drunkard^s family, and answer. Are they not unfavorable to the exercise of our faculties in the pursuit of laudable ends ? Look at that occupant of the Madhouse, raging under the influence of mama a potu^ and with the wreck of what Digitized by Google 9 was once a man before yon, answer me.
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