A proverb says: "Milk is the wine of the young and wine is the milk of the aged." An intellectual use of alcohol leads to health and happiness, while its abuse naturally is detrimental; but this book is written for thinking people.

Statistics, as well as personal experience, tell us that people enjoying the use of liquors in a reasonable manner, reach a higher age and enjoy a better health than those that are totally abstinent; still worse off are those who want to make others believe that they drink nothing, but are abusive behind their screens.

All countries and states, where prohibition is not sanctioned by law, are on a higher moral level than those where liquors can be secured only under violation of the law.

In numberless cases of sickness physicians do not hesitate one moment to prescribe to the patient medicines containing alcoholic stimulants - especially when it is required to strengthen the body. Why should be detrimental to the strong, what is useful for the weak always provided that the strong be of sound intellect and morality?

The present times, nerve-weakening and exciting as they are, require stimulants; and if people cannot get harmless ones they will seek, and, in most cases, find others, the effect of which is highly detrimental for body and mind.