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Grappling with the Monster

CHAPTER VI
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We have known the hereditary dypsomaniac break from his destroyer, and when tempted in secret by the monstrous appetite, so grind his teeth and clinch his jaws in keeping his vows to taste not, that blood dripped from his mouth and cold sweat bathed his face.

That man is a model of temperance and moral power to-day.

And it was the consciousness of personal criminality that stimulated these successful conflicts with the morbid appetite and the powers of the alcohol disease that had fastened upon them.

Shall we hesitate to hold ourselves, or to demand that communities shall hold every drunkard--not yet insane--responsible for every act of inebriety?
Certainly, it is not cruel or unjust to deal thus with drunkenness.

It is not the prison we open, but conscience." The danger in which those stand who have an INHERITED PREDISPOSITION TO DRINK, is very great.


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