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Excerpt from The Law and the Offence: A Lecture on the Subject of Prohibitory Laws, in Regard to the Use of Intoxicating Drinks
But it will be said that this law is to prevent crime and pauperism, and has nothing to do with temperance, in a technical sense, nor any intention of a moral bearing other than what every good law has. Can honest and fair minded men say this? Are not the temperance cause technically so called, and this law identical? 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, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
