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the temperate use of food and drink, including light right? that is no reason why everybody else should abstain tions of the Committee of Fifty; recently published, fermented beverages, is not harmful to persons of Here the balance is struck in favor of poverty as Continually. Prof. Francis G. Peabody, of Cambridge, Mass. regard to eating. I know a man, a fine specimen phys- ically as well as mentally, who cannot eat egg without However, I am not so much interested in drunken- In the introduction to the summary of the investiga- that there are people with peculiar idiosyncrasies in No Cause for Alarm. Conditions are Improving caused by drink rather than of crime. Which is (Harvard), says: alcohol in moderate quantities without evil effects. But not eat eggs. There are also unfortunates burdened who cannot use alcohol, is not denied any more than not the cause of all the crime in the world." of alcoholic drink as well as of food. And I repeat, If, in the confusion of opinion, which prevails concern- from it. ness or gluttony. I am speaking of the temperate use going into convulsions. That is no reason why I should with some physical unsoundness who cannot take normal constitution. That there are abnormal people