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state became a religious prccept and a
civil law.
Mohammed's prohbitory law In the
Koran against drunkenness, first applied
to Arabia. has spread abstinence among
millions in Asia and Africa, which as
part of n religious creed is more or less
studiously observed to this day.
Early Greece and Rome were founded
on basis OF hostility. sentimental and
legal, to the use OF Intoxicating liquors.
Plato taught that one should not drink
wine until thirty, and should never al
low himself to become intoxicated until
after forty.
The early Roman law ranked drunk
enness in a wife along with adultery.
and permitted the husband to kill his
wife if guilty OF either.
Iibations to the gods were ordinaely
with milk. later wine was used. Finally
in the worship of Bacchus drunkenness
became 50 rife it stands among the
chief evils that attended tho death Of
Che empire.
In Pings time it became notorious.
CHESTS at a feast We'd with each other
in seeing who could drink the most. ono
man is recorded as having capacity
of three gallons, and later he was sur
passed by ono who could drink twice as
much. The drink OF those times was
| fermcnted wine, the art of dlstilling not
having been invented.
The early tribes OF Germany and Great
Britain were given to great excuses
in using the fernented drinks made from
wheat and barley, the making OF which
| they had learned from the Romans.
| In Great Britain the drinking houses
bccame such centers of drunkenness, the
| clergy were put st charge with the view
| of their being conducted more properly.
But the clergy themselves became ad-
dicted to tho habit, and it is recorded
that penance lasting three days was
imposed on priests who got drunk when
about to go on duty at the altar.
| Immediately after the Crusades the
returning knights, lacking excitement and
the diversions they had enjoyed, resoited
to Intoxicating drinks. and drunkenness
became alarmiGgly common
| Drunkenness is common to the occident
rather than to the orient OF the tenn
perate zone than the tropics; OF the
! Cauca sian rather than the brown or black
races: common with the so-calied Chris
tian races: and among the Caucasian,
the Anglo-Ssxon stands pre-eminent.
Drunkenness was introduced INFO Am
erica by the early coonists who brought
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