Drugs and Character

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1900

Drugs and Character

In an article on “Drugs and Character,” in the Independent for May 3, David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University, well says:—

“All that drugs can do for the most part is to change the stress in the process of life. They can create nothing. They can not bring health. Health is not a change of stress. It is not a matter of appearances. Health is to the physical body what happiness is to the mind. No drug can take the place of exercise, and no hysteria of the imagination is a substitute for the sanity of health. The drug habit arises from the desire to make a short cut to health, and thus to happiness. It is a sign as well as a cause of personal degeneration.”