WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURE
“Alcohol,” says 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 the misguided prohibitionary activities of all one-eyed earnest persons. Self-discipline is the sole genuine remedy for excess, whether in the use of alcohol or in 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.”—Advt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 480, 9 October 1928, Page 12
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125WISDOM IN HUMAN NATURE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 480, 9 October 1928, Page 12
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