Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: rejoice in the call even for repetition of statement, because the demand indicates an awakening feeling which is of the happiest omen. When millions of people had to be converted to temperance in the face of opposition on all sides, the labor looked dismal enough. Now that.the opposition is melting away, and the millions are earnestly seeking for the knowledge which leads to conversion, the labor, heavy and severe still, is edged with brightness. Therefore, on the whole, I am glad to have occasion to speak again. I am specially glad to speak in this place, and, considering where I speak from, I will try to repeat myself as little as possible. With this intent, it will be well for me to endeavor to present to you a side of the alcohol questipn which has not, as yet, been dwelt on in so special a manner as it deserves. MEMS. ON PHYSICAL ACTION OF ALCOHOL. In my address delivered last year in the Shel- donian Theatre, at Oxford, I spoke almost exclusively on the facts connected with the action of alcohol on the body. It seems to me befitting if on the present occasion I touch more particularly on the facts connected with the action of alcohol on the mind. Before, however, I pass to this particular topic, it may be advisable to epitomize the matter of the Oxford essay, so that those, and they must be many here, who have not read that essay, may follow the present argument dealing with mental phenomena, from the argument which was based on the study of physical phenomena. In that essay I endeavored to show, from the experimental evidence I had previously collected, that alcohol, when it finds its way into the living body, interferes with the oxidation of the blood; that it interferes with the natural motion of the heart; that it produces a paralyzing effect on the minute ci...