Note C — Chapter VI · —SUBJECTIVE REMEDIES.

“Education is the cure of ignorance,” says Judge Pitman, “but ignorance is not the cause of intemperance. Men who drink generally know better than others that the practice is foolish and hurtful.” “It is not the most earnest and intelligent workers in the sphere of public education that make their overestimate of it as a specific for intemperance. While they are fully sensible of that measure of indirect aid which intellectual culture brings to all moral reforms, they feel how weak is this agency alone to measure its strength against the powerful appetite for drink.”