WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURE.
"Alcohol," soys Arnold Bennett, "is one of the greatest institutions in the civilised world. You might prohibit it till you were black in the face, but you could not abolish it. You might as well try to abolish love. There is a fundamental wisdom in human nature which laughs very composedly at thr? misguided prohibitionary activities of all one-eyed earnest persons. Self-dis-cipline is the sole genuine remedy for excess, whether in the use of alcohol or in anything else. Thb youth who lias 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 reiect all that it has of evil."* 7
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Shannon News, 19 October 1928, Page 2
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126WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURE. Shannon News, 19 October 1928, Page 2
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