Benefactor — Vices, by Alfred Lawson — Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - Next

 “But if the majority of men are drunkards and they see the same man put whiskey into his stomach which stops his reasoning faculties from working they pronounce him as being sane for doing it.
 “Now, in the sight of Nature, any man who wrecks his own body and mind through the use of false materials is an unnatural idiot, whether everybody else is addicted to such degraded vices or not.
 “There is a reason why human beings become idiots. It is because their minds are not strong enough to control the different functions of their bodies.
 “The dilapidating DISORGS will get possession of a function of the mental system through the weakness of the mind. Then, one by one, they will take possession of other functions until the mind has lost all control over them and the body staggers about like a ship without a pilot.
 “A bit of wisdom has made man the most ludicrous of all animals.
 “One may hunt the world over but can find no other animal strutting around with a lighted pipe or cigarette stuck in its face and using its mouth to suck in and blow out smoke, using at times the nostrils as human smoke-stacks during the operation.
 “Minute particles from smoke sucked in at the mouth are drawn into the lungs and get into the blood streams and finally saturate every cell and tissue of the body. The poison overpowers the Menorgs who cannot do their work properly and the entire mental system breaks down. Thus not only has the WILL of man been weakened but in time he becomes a nervous wreck that is pitiful in the sight of GOD.
 “It is worse for women to ‘smoke’ than men because a mother must feed the mental system of her offspring from her own blood as it grows from a microscopic seed to the new born infant.
 “A child born from a mother that ‘smokes’ has very little chance to survive and grow up strong and able to compete successfully in life with children from parents without vices. Therefore, to a very large extent, mothers are responsible for the weaknesses of their children.
 “Perhaps the most terrible and far reaching of all of man’s vices is the gambling habit.
 “The foundation of gambling is the weakening desire to get something for nothing.
 “Unnatural man-made economic conditions that have existed for thousands of years have bred in man the belief that the world owes him a living whether he earns it or not.
 “The world owes nobody a living as nature has decreed that everybody must give effort for whatever they receive. In fact everybody owes nature a huge debt for bringing to life the human race and giving to it the most responsible work given to any other species of animalism. So to be honest everybody must work to pay that debt in full.
 “The human race has a long, hard struggle before it to produce the gigantic results that nature expects it to accomplish in time to

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