And that such will "MORE READILY BECOME DRUNKARDS, "if they once commence to use intoxicating drinks, is also true.

But that such persons, or any others, have the slightest inherent or constitutional taste or any longing for intoxicants, until they have acquired such taste or longing by actual use, we find no reliable proof.
It is true that statistics appear to show that a larger proportion of the children of drunkards become themselves drunkards, than of children born of total abstainers.

And hence the conclusion has been drawn that such children INHERITED the constitutional tendency to inebriation.

But before we are justified in adopting such a conclusion, several other important facts must be ascertained.
"1st.

We must know whether the mother, while nursing, used more or less constantly some kind of alcoholic beverage, by which the alcohol might have impregnated the milk in her breasts and thereby made its early impression on the tastes and longings of the child.
"2d.