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marvelous delicacy and intensity of this superb power unless its benumbing influence is totally withdrawn.
"The use of liquor destroys health, disfigures the body, ruins the nervous system, dethrones the reason, produces insanity, becomes the parent of idiocy; it blunts the finer feelings and sensibilities; it fills our poor-houses with paupers and crowds our prisons with criminals; it breaks the hearts of parents and pauperizes helpless women and innocent children; it leads to vice and violence, and plunges its victims into temporal and eternal ruin."—Sylvanus Stall, D.D.
