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Only a few look at causes, and trace them to their effects. In Donald A. Koch (ed.)

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No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.

Timothy Shay Arthur

Timothy Shay Arthur

Timothy Shay Arthur

Born: June 6, 1809

Died: March 6, 1885 (aged 75)

Bio: Timothy Shay Arthur known as T.S. Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.

Known for:

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper (1854)
After a Shadow and Other Stories (1868)
Grappling with the Monster (1872)
Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them (1851)

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