PHILOSOPHICAL EFFECTS OF sTMuLANTs.
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A love of temporary excitement, as has been
said, is the prime cause of indulgence in intox.
icating liquors, and as this excitement promotes
flow of friendly feeling, the practice of drink.
ing has become engrafted for ages on the social
usages of the country. The appetite for indul-
gence in alcoholic liquor, it may be observed,
has always small beginnings. The taste is not
natural, but acquired. When once began,
however, it is difficult to stop. Agiven quanti-
ty of any intoxcant which at first produces
given effect, by repetition loses its power to
produce that effect. The reason is obvious


The agent exhausts the vitality Of the senti-


ment fibre, and thus alters the relation between