Health and activity in middle and later life / by Joseph Constantine.

  • Constantine, John.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health and activity in middle and later life / by Joseph Constantine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unwashed and unkempt brutalised people, side by side with the greatest refinement and greatest luxury. . . . Talk of political questions? . . . The man who can see, I think, will observe that in these times there lies beneath all these questions the greatest question whether that profligate misery which dogs the footsteps of modern civilisation should be allowed to exist. . . I say I believe that it is the great political qziestion of the future. If you could only see the right way of doing it, I could see no nobler work than to go with you in that object. THE NATIONAL DRINKING CUSTOMS. The festering mass of human depravity caused by the drinking customs of society has grown to such proportions that it has been too much for the old religious organisations, the temperance societies, and philanthropists combined, and it has brought into existence General Booth and his Army, who certainly boldly attack King Alcohol. They go straight at him, enter his strongholds, and drag out of the gutter many rare specimens of fallen man, who are at once enlisted into the Army and trained to do battle for others. Now and again, as we know, there appears on the platform an ex-prize fighter, a noted thief or burglar, who have been familiar with the inside of jails, and it is anything but edifying to hear some of those men relate, with gusto, to what depth of depravity they had reached. How has this dreadful state of things come about ?