Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System, as Existing in the United States: Published by Order of a Meeting of Citizens of Philadelphia, Favorable to the Entire Abolition of Lotteries
Gambling, by means of the lottery, is not of very mo dern origin. Though it has been tolerated, and even fos tered by Christian communities, it dates its birth so far back as a remote period in the history of the Romans. The uses to which it was applied are faithfully delineated by Menestrier, a Jesuit father, who published the result of his researches about the close of the seventeenth century. As it is not necessary to trace its existence, or ascertain its effects, in Pagan lands, let us scan it in its consequences nearer our own day, when the meridian sun of Christianity is dispensing his genial rays for the illumination and im provement of the world.
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