Excerpt from From the Savoy: An Essay in Going to Church Make him wink; haschisch tempts the dreamer by the Oriental gla mour of its reputation; and gin is a cheap substitute for all these ano dynes. Most of the activity of the Press, the Pulpit, the Platform and the Theatre is only a symptom of the activity of the drug trade, the tea trade, the tobacco trade and the liquor trade. The world is not going from bad to worse, it is true; but the increased facilities which constitute the advance of civilisa tion include ...
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Excerpt from From the Savoy: An Essay in Going to Church Make him wink; haschisch tempts the dreamer by the Oriental gla mour of its reputation; and gin is a cheap substitute for all these ano dynes. Most of the activity of the Press, the Pulpit, the Platform and the Theatre is only a symptom of the activity of the drug trade, the tea trade, the tobacco trade and the liquor trade. The world is not going from bad to worse, it is true; but the increased facilities which constitute the advance of civilisa tion include facilities for drugging oneself. These facilities wipe whole races of black men off the face of the earth; and every extension and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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