Alcohol and Human Deterioration
A LEADING surgeon in the British army, Sir Charles Crawford, declares that on account of alcoholic drinks the size and endurance of British soldiers is materially diminished, and the human race, as determined by the English, is greatly deteriorating by the same cause. Alcohol ruins men for everything, work or war, mentality or morality. The most serious part of it is the morality. There is naught so debasing in this world as the whole drink business and its associations from the worm, the still, to the drunkard in the gutter, or the debauchee in the brothel. With the rapid increase in drink, the corresponding deterioration in the race, how long will it be ere man will fall so low that his reform will be hopeless? And yet we are told that we are rapidly nearing the world's conversion.