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balance of relevant evidence. is adverse to the contentions
of the Anti-opium League. And careful examination
of the conditions of the problem in Hongkong
has led me to entertain some doubt
whether those who favour measures
of extreme restriction in regard to the use of opium would be justified
in their views, so far at least as this Colony is concerned, even
if their premises were correct; while it further has convinced me that those premises
are in many particulars, and especially as regards the moral and physical effects
of the use of opium generally practised by the Hong Kong Chinese,
in irreconcilable with the facts and based on erroneous information
on a too hasty generalization from insufficient data. But I imagine that
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balance of relevant evidence. is adverse to the contentions
of the Anti-opium League. And careful examination
a
of
the conditions of the problem
in Hongkong
has led me
to entertain some doubt
whether those who favour
measures.
of extreme restriction.
of
in regard to the use opium would be justified
in their views, so
for at
least as this Colony
concerned, even
is
if their
premises
rises were
premises
correct; while
it further has convinced me that those premises
are in
many particulars, and especially as regards the moral and physical effects
the use
of the
use of opium
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generally practised by the
HongKong
Chinese in
irreconcilable with the facts
and based on erroneous
information
Onyo a
too
hasty
generalization from insufficient data. But I imagine that
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