and principles, so arranged as to show the trend of temperance sentiment, and also to be convenient for use by advocates of the Temperance Reform, now a great multitude. It is not presumed that any of the questions involved in the scope of this volume have been exhausted, for that would be impossible in so broad a survey of the whole field. The present century has witnessed some of the grandest moral achievements ever accomplished over evils hoary with antiquity, fortified by conventional sanctions, and fostered by the strongest passions of human nature, dueling, polygamy, cannibalism, and slavery, now nearly or quite removed from large areas where, eighty years ago, they held unbroken sway. This volume is committed to the public in the hope that it may contribute something to "our next emancipation "-deliverance from the bondage of alcohol. NATICK, MASS., December 15, 1883. DANIEL DORCHESTER. |