And if I were to take you through all the passions, love, hate, lust, envy, avarice and pride, I should but show you that alcohol ministers to them all; that, paralyzing the reason, it takes from off these passions that fine adjustment of reason, which places man above the lower animals.

From the beginning to the end of its influence it subdues reason and sets the passions free.

The analogies, physical and mental, are perfect.

That which loosens the tension of the vessels which feed the body with due order and precision, and, thereby, lets loose the heart to violent excess and unbridled motion, loosens, also, the reason and lets loose the passion.

In both instances, heart and head are, for a time, out of harmony; their balance broken.