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the tissue and the stimulant, on which the effect


depends. The uneasy feelings of exhausted


sensibilty are extremely distressing, and call


imperously for relief. The uneasiness can


only be removed, and the pleasure again expe-


renced, by increasing the quantity OF the
stimulant to the exhausted tissue; thus, by
natural physical law, these agents tend to Gre
ate false appetite; and thus is the drunkard,
or the opium eater. impelled to seek, in fresh
excess, relief from imperfect excitement; and
thus do the wretched victims of ignorance be.
come the slaves of artificial habits and appettes
habits which increase in power with every
repetition, and appetites which are necessarily
insatate, since they "grow with what they
feed upon" An habtual love of stlmulants
thus becomes blind and ungovernabe i'm
pulse-the desire possessing all the character
of an unconquerable passion; he who is under
it can scarcely be called rational being.
Knowing, perhaps, that what he does is wrong
he still does it. The man in this state OF hal
lucnation, whatever be his errors, is less an
object for prison than lunatic asylum.