Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876,
By J. H. KELLOGG, M. D.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington,
LIBRARY of
ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
PREFACE.
To attempt to demonstrate the importance of the subject
of this work would be a useless task, for nothing could he
more thoroughly established than is already the fact that
the temperance question is one of the momentous problems
of the day. Tt enters largely into politics, and promises to
play in future a still more prominent rile in the civil affairs of
nations. Its growing importance cannot well be ignored by
any one interested in human affairs—and who is not—and a
large and very intelligent class feel and manifest the deepest
interest in the subjeet.
Although the literature of temperance is already quite an
extensive one, yet the subject is so great, and presents so
many differing phases, that there still seems to be room to
be occupied.
‘As will be seen by the table of contents, the subject is
treated under eight separate heads. The several divisions
are so closely related, however, that it has been impossible to
confine each within rigid limits, so that slight repetitions
have been necessary in two or three instances, not, however,
without the addition of new matter of interest.
The first section, ‘True Temperance,” defines temperance,
and points out the fact that indulgence in liquor is not the
only means of intemperance.
In the second section are described alcohol and the processes
employed by various nations to produce it.
The third section considers the effects which the use of ulco-
hol occasions upon the various tissues of the human body.
Next is considered the ‘Moral and Social Effects of Alco-
hol,” as shown by well-known facts and statistics.
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