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Updated: May 11, 2025
The representatives of the European Powers and America were like one great happy family, and the life of the European and American community in Seoul was for a long time ideal. There came one jarring experience when a Government it would be unkind to mention which sent a Minister who was a confirmed dipsomaniac.
There is such a thing as a state, as a nation; there is the abstract conception of man; but humanity as a concrete idea does not, and cannot exist. Humanity! Where is the definition of humanity? Where does it end and where does it begin? Does humanity end with the savage, the idiot, the dipsomaniac, or the madman?
The drunkard who is himself responsible for his habit, is, strictly speaking, an alcoholic and is vicious and degraded. The drunkard who drinks in spite of himself is, strictly speaking, a dipsomaniac, and is diseased and insane. The alcoholic may become the dipsomaniac; but the child who is the victim of a transmitted taint is without doubt a dipsomaniac and not an alcoholic. He is insane.
Isabel decided that as everything was relative it was better to have a dipsomaniac as her life portion than a drinking-machine of more steady and industrious habits.
Haven't you ever observed that Inglewood is always washing his hands a known mark of mental disease? I, of course, am a dipsomaniac." "I don't believe you," broke out his companion, not without agitation. "I've heard you had some bad habits " "All habits are bad habits," said Michael, with deadly calm.
If I can make him see it as you've made me see it, he'll get busy. If he doesn't see it, there's no harm done. But in any event it's your idea, and I'll see to it that you're not cheated out of the credit for it." The dipsomaniac shook his head. The flame of inspiration had died out in Quinlan; he was a dead crater again a drunkard quivering for the lack of stimulant. "Never mind the credit, son.
Thus it is seen then that if any effort is to be made for the reform of the dipsomaniac, the direct influence of heredity must be overcome by a course of treatment which would be addressed to the nervous system. Treatment which shall draw out the alcoholic poison and which shall quicken and invigorate the nerve centres.
Perhaps the only time he seemed cheerful and affectionate was when he had a few drinks in him. It was a miserable existence a furnished room in a cheap lodging-house, and the use of the kitchen. "He drank alone. "Now a dipsomaniac mostly thinks he is in the right except, perhaps, after he has been forced to be sober for a week.
On the occasion when he had quoted a verse of poetry to them, one of them said to him with a sidelong glance: "You seem to be dead-struck on Nature, Ingolby." To that, with a sly quirk of the mouth, and meaning to mystify his wooden-headed questioner still more, he answered: "Dead-struck? Dead- drunk, you mean. I'm a Nature's dipsomaniac as you can see," he added with a sly note of irony.
That was now the sole dilemma which tormented him as the possible methods of obtaining the drink he craves, or the drug that gives him peace and radiant visions, torment the dipsomaniac or the morphia victim in his guarded prison. He thought of his instruments, those magic machines with the working of which Stella had been familiar in her life.
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