The Truth about Opium: Being the Substance of Three Lectures Delivered at St. James's Hall on the 9th, 16th and 23rd February Last (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Truth About Opium: Being the Substance of Three Lectures Delivered at St. James's Hall on the 9th, 16th and 23rd February Last

Opium Trade. - Character of the Chinese as described by various authors. - Chinese a frugal and abstemious people. - Opium-smoking less injurious than tobacco. - Charges of the anti-opium Society based upon fallacies and false assumptious. - Alleged objections of the Chinese to receive the Gospel on account of the indo-china Opium trade the merest subterfuge, and utterly absurd and untenable.

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