The war of four thousand years : being a connected history of the various efforts made to suppress the vice of intemperance in all ages of the world : from the foundation of the class of Nazarites, by Moses, to the institution of the order of the Sons of Temperance, inclusive : with a full account of the origin, progress, and present prospects of the latter institution / by P.S. White and H.R. Pleasants.

  • White, Philip S., 1807-1868.
Date:
1846
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Credit: The war of four thousand years : being a connected history of the various efforts made to suppress the vice of intemperance in all ages of the world : from the foundation of the class of Nazarites, by Moses, to the institution of the order of the Sons of Temperance, inclusive : with a full account of the origin, progress, and present prospects of the latter institution / by P.S. White and H.R. Pleasants. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    after the twelve apostles. In the beginning of the eighteenth century, there were in German) fate empty wine casks, the largest in the world, at the three towns of Tubingen, Heidelberg, and Gruningen. The dimensions of the first were : length twenty-four feet, depth sixteen. Of the second, thirty-one, twen- ty-one. Of the third, thirty, eighteen. In 1725, Koningstein furnished one larger than any of these. (See Keysler's Travels, passim.) The known fond- ness of the Germans for strong waters, caused a wit to write upon the popular adage, in vino Veritas, a distich, the purport of which was, that if truth lay in wine, the Germans would be sure to discover it. Si latet in vino verum, ut provcrbia dicunt, Invenit verum Teuto, vet inveniet. The Russians were excessively addicted to intoxica- tion, their government receiving a large revenue from distillation. The Swedes and Danes come likewise under the same head. It now remains to give some account of the pro- gress of intemperance, in our own country. The first colony established in the United States was that of Virginia, in the year 1607. New York was settled seven years after, in 1614; Massachusetts, in 1620, and Connecticut in 1635. At that early period, dis- tilled spirits were not in general use in any country save Ireland, where, as we have seen, they had al- ready commenced their career of destruction. They were, of course, almost unknown to the good people of the colonies. Indeed, so deep was this happy ignorance, that an expedition was once undertaken,