Note 191 — Chapter VI · DIONYSUS THE MAN

The reason why a national movement for the purification of intoxicating liquors could never succeed in countries like England, France and America under present-day values, is obviously because it would by its very nature be tantamount to an anti-commercial or anti-profiteering agitation. And since the governing classes of these countries have for many generations consisted largely of the chiefs of commerce and industry, such a movement would never be allowed to effect any useful reforms.