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Excerpt from Lectures on Temperance We say, the pious and the good. For it is not to be disguised, that notwithstanding all the mighty things which have been done in the way of public enlightenment on this important subject, there are not only whole classes of society, otherwise well read and intelligent, who have either forgotten or else never knew the fundamental principles of Temperance, but there are very many professed Christians, many ministers of the gospel, who continue so far strangers to the ethics and the philosophy of the Temperance reform, that their own per sonal habits are still quoted against the suppression of the liquor traffic, and even the practice of Total Abstinence. Besides, a new generation has grown up even in Temper ance families, to whom these important and vital truths have never been seriously and systematically addressed. The Prussians have a maxim, that whatever you would have appear in the life of a nation, you must put in its schools. The trustees of district schools, the teachers of Sabbath schools, and other guardians of the young, should be appealed to to put one or more copies of this volume in every school library in the land. The value of this volume is much enhanced by an able and elaborate introduction by tayler lewis, LL. D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in Union College - a man who is equally eminent as an acute, original thinker, and for his profound acquisitions in classical and biblical learning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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