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The two things of course rest upon exactly the same philosophy; the philosophy of the taboo. There is a mystical substance, and it can give monstrous pleasures or call down monstrous punishments. The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
A gentleman may ask the lady whom he conducted down to dinner; or he may ask the lady of the house to take wine with him. But even these last remnants of the old custom are fast falling into disuse. Unless you are a total abstainer, it is extremely uncivil to decline taking wine if you are invited to do so.
First of all, the skipper who looked as strong and healthy a man as you'd meet with in a day's march was found dead in his bed, on the morning of the fifth day out; and, next, the chief mate who of course took command, and was supposed to be a total abstainer was found missin', as you may say, when the steward went to call him, one morning he'd only been in command four days, poor chap; and the mate that's our present skipper, Cap'n Williams gave it out that he must have committed suicide, while in liquor, by jumpin' out of the stern window which was found to be wide-open, on the mornin' when poor Mr Mowbray was reported missing."
Now this one point, on which I accept The Nation's challenge, can be exactly paralleled on almost every point by which we test a civilisation. It does not matter whether we are for alcohol or against it. On either argument Glasgow is more objectionable than Rouen. The French abstainer makes less fuss; the French drinker gives less offence. It is so with property, with war, with everything.
Not that he means to drink it himself, for you must know that, by the rules of his caste, he is a total abstainer, being a Bhundaree, whose function is to draw toddy, not to drink it. This is one of those profound institutes by which the wisdom of the ancients fenced the whole social system of this strange land.
Westerfield's family dare to suppose that a barmaid may not be a perfectly virtuous woman?" "Pardon me for putting myself forward," he said, with his customary politeness. "Speaking as an abstainer from fermented liquors, I must really protest against these allusions to barmaids."
He had joined the Buffalos and the Druids, been elected President of the Skull and Crossbones Boys' Society, and, although he was not himself an abstainer, he was so friendly to Temperance that he had on several occasions, taken the chair at teetotal meetings, to say nothing of the teas to the poor school children and things of that sort.
In order that he may be kind and honest, it may be needful he should become a total abstainer; let him become so then, and the next day let him forget the circumstance.
"You be Best Man-at-arms in the Division and win everythink that's open to British Troops Mounted, and git the 'Eavy-Weight Championship from the Gorilla an' there'll be some talk about promotion for yer, me lad." "Thank you, Sergeant," replied Dam. "I am a total abstainer." "Yah! Chuck it," observed the Sergeant-Major. Of no interest to Women nor modern civilized Men.
I shall call your attention to one of them. The defendant, while professing to be a total abstainer, a man who, in my own knowledge, has refused spirituous refreshment as an inordinate weakness of the flesh, with shameless hypocrisy underscores with his pencil the following passage, and presents it to the plaintiff.
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