indulgence of our times as most of us now do upon opium smoking.
"O God, that men should put an enemy into their mouths to steal
away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and
applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"

The best book for practical use is H. S. Warner's Social Welfare
and the Liquor Problem (revised edition, 1913), where extensive
references to the authorities will be found. Two other excellent
popular books are H. S. Williams, Alcohol (1909), and Horsley
and Sturge, Alcohol and the Human Body (1911). See also
Rosanoff, in McClure's Magazine, vol. 32, p. 557; Rountree
and Sherwell, The Temperance Problem and Social Reform;
T. N. Kelynack, The Drink Problem: Scientific Conclusions
concerning the Alcohol Problem (Senate Document 48, 61st
Congress, 1909); and the five volumes of conclusions of the
Committee of Fifty, published by Houghton, Mifflin Co, under
the general title, Aspects of the Liquor Problem; a summary of
these conclusions is published with the title The Liquor Problem,
ed. F. J. Peabody. Barker, The Saloon Problem and Social Reform.
Fanshawe, Liquor Legislation in the United States and Canada.
C. B. Henderson, The Social Spirit in America, chap. XVI. The
best available data, to date, on the physiological questions
underlying the moral questions may be found in G. Rosenfeld,
Der Einfluss des Alkohols auf den Organismus (1901) A.B.Cushney,
The Action of Alcohol (1907)-paper read before the British Association;
Meyer and Gottlieb, Pharmacology (1914).