Excerpt from Alcohol and the Law IN 3. Paper on Alcohol and Total Abstinence in the National Review of May 1884, I endeavoured to correct some remarkable mistakes concerning the use and abuse of alcohol; to expose the manner in which the public are habitually misled by the statements of the Total Abstinence party, and to point out the folly and the inevitable failure of their proposals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.