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Gin is a liquor, that which when drunk to excess [intoxicates
at the time: and by frequent intoxication
enervates and at length] destroys the constitution To some men Intoxication, to some men while it lasts, is pleasing.
Time was when it was cheap in England —
It was drunk to excess, and misery and much wretchedness and visible depopulation
were the consequence. The Legislature
saw this wretchedness and lamented it —
What was What said they is the cause? Excessive liquor drinking of this
liquor — How was it to be remedied? What then would be the remedy? by willing will
that the liquor should no longer be so drunken.
Here then was found the primary will [formed [in this behalf]
Here was the declaratory part the substantive of a Law forbidding
it — "Drink not this liquor to excess.
What was
But send this precept precept abroad into the world, among the people was
it likely to be obey'd? No, certainly Men were too wedded to the habit to be driven from it by a word — Adressed to an unfeeling of what should with respect to the person to whom it is adressed populace, [with propensities thus to cope with] may not combat by propensities thus powerful, a naked Direction, would be but an object of derision — To do any thing, it must be compleated into a Law — It with part
of it only would be and imperfect
it must sanctional be furnished with a sanction — with a sanction: denouncing Now then with what sort of
sanction? [how to be applied?] to whom taken
adressed? To the person whose act it is that
it is purposed to prevent? That would be in vain.
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