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is not a
vot.
" Ad. 6. If by consumption " is meant the
tese
sexual immorality
as well as other crimes of
-violence, and fills gaols and lunatic
Opium tends to
asylums.
excite the sexual instinct. And if the sot aside, as an indulgence in
of opium at long-intervals, it is harmless. Then cannot be, in my experience
my experience, frequent indulgence and lays the sot aside, without a corresponding degree of physical,
- and social injury.
Ad. 7. class
moral
I have not become acquainted with any Chinese class
of which I could say either that
it abstains from
all individuals of it
or that a
In
it does consume
majority of
habitual or frequent-
of opium
every calling, opium indulgence in opium question (like
like most
calamities
diminishes efficiency. But
cial -
increasingly
in great difference
less and helpless wreck. But the
become between
the craving
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and alcohol is this that
I have
of opium craving for opium is not transmitted to born generations by inheritance, whilst the
all consumes craving for alcohol is a taint conveyed by every individual affected by it to numbers of genera-
tions. I have spent 24 years in Europe
in South-China or Hong Kong. 1 years of the others) is misleading.
made about as ma-
many acquaintances among
the Chinese. Among my is a soda Europeans Opium live. Alcohol has a special adoptedness to the
acquaintances alcohol has wrought infinitely
-nervous and mental temperament). neurosis (
have than opium has done, and the mis-
ment the Chinese. Alcohol produces chief
of opium has been chiefly individual but in the case of alcohol untold misery
produces passive inertness of
system (excluded families and legacy of vicious of the brain). Both opium and alcohol tend to
instincts has been transmitted to future genera-
vitiate the physique and the moral sense. Alcohol damages also
the intellect also. Opium does not ruin
s
Ad &
Hectol is a
ective ill deeds.
the brain so
40
stimulant.
the
more
us among
in the case
The
Ad.
9.
of opium to the extent of bringing "the craving" (a clear point known to
Low or do
much. Alcohol stimula
on
every