pressions received, the synthetic, creative, poetic and forma- the sphere of the intellect, the understanding; such diminu- effect of alcohol either only a diminution of the direct work of Crime and Misery. powers of soul life slumbering in the depths of conscious- of weights and measures, and here the undeniable heavy debit one has yet succeeded in fathoming the extent to which the would deprive us of part of the joy of living, with performed by the muscle or of some functions lying within Time was when the enjoyment of physical existence sanity, of poverty, of all those things which are, to a great extent, the results of spiritual starvation. tion was shown f. i. in the tests with arithmetical problems, The Rule of "Not Too Much." ness, the emotions, the free and fanciful combination of im- memorizing, "inner" and "outer" associations, etc. But no logical experiments always gave as the final result of the bringing against the anti-alcoholist. I charge him who being the real promoter of misery, of crime, of in- account of alcohol possesses a partly discharging credit ac- He who Destroys the Joy of Life Is the Real Author These are matters which, for the present, lie beyond the reach This may be considered a strange indictment I am tive, in fact all artistic activity may under similar influ- ences be stimulated, fructified or awakened and set free. count. 39