WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURL
"Alcohol," says Arnold Bennett, "is one of the greatest institutions in the oivilised world. You might prohibit it till you were-black in the face, but you could not abolish it. Yen might as well try to abolish love. There is a fundamental wisdom in human nature which laughs very composedly at tLe misguided prohibitionary activities of <•'" one«-r ;■ earnest persons. Self-discipline is the sole genuine remedy for excess -whether in the use of alcohol or anything else. The youth who has been trained to be master of himself will be the master of alcohol, for he will know how at once to obtain from it all that it has of good, and reject all that it has of evil."—(Ad.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 15
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122WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURL Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 15
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