Why it is that such awful and destructive forms of insanity should follow, as they do, the use of alcohol it is not for us to say.

That they do follow it, we know, and we hold, up the fact in solemn warning.
INHERITED LATENT EVIL FORCES.
Another consideration, which should have weight with every one, is this, that no man can tell what may be the character of the legacy he has received from his ancestors.

He may have an inheritance of latent evil forces, transmitted through many generations, which only await some favoring opportunity to spring into life and action.

So long as he maintains a rational self-control, and the healthy order of his life be not disturbed, they may continue quiescent; but if his brain loses its equipoise, or is hurt or impaired, then a diseased psychical condition may be induced and the latent evil forces be quickened into life.
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce MENTAL AND MORAL CHANGES OF A DISASTROUS CHARACTER as alcohol.

Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling.