Note 14 — Chapter V · DRUNKENNESS MODIFIED BY THE INEBRIATING AGENT.
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“The law of Mahomet, which prohibits the drinking of wine, is a law fitted to the climate of Arabia; and, indeed, before Mahomet’s time, water was the common drink of the Arabs. The law which forbade the Carthagenians to drink wine, was also a law of the climate.”—Montesquieu, Book xiv., Chap. x.