The Dry Rot of Society and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Dry Rot of Society and Other EssaysSo Victory has ushered in another war over the fresh sod of the late war, the war of our best society against the drunkard.Society has had its fill of excitement, blood-letting and the ecstasy of conquest, and now we are prepared for the reaction into a dry, sober world of the prohibitory Virtues.If Thought, as the inspiration of man, did arise from the indigestion of an overeating ape - as one evolutionist states - conscience developed as an after-thought along the same lines of our somatic experience. Abstinence follows excess, the Puritan follows the debauchee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.