Excerpt from Melinda Maxwell: An Interesting Story of Scotland in the Olden Days The ale-house was as bad asnake in the Highlands of Scotland as it is, and was, the world over. There were laws, excise laws, rigorous laws for the suppresion of the trade and habit. There were earnest men and officers to enforce those laws, as many a skulking moonshiner found to his cost. Nevertheless, all such laws, like similar laws elsewhere, were, and are, pathetic in their failure. Judging from results for a cycle of centuries, it does ...
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Excerpt from Melinda Maxwell: An Interesting Story of Scotland in the Olden Days The ale-house was as bad asnake in the Highlands of Scotland as it is, and was, the world over. There were laws, excise laws, rigorous laws for the suppresion of the trade and habit. There were earnest men and officers to enforce those laws, as many a skulking moonshiner found to his cost. Nevertheless, all such laws, like similar laws elsewhere, were, and are, pathetic in their failure. Judging from results for a cycle of centuries, it does really seem that man-made law is a poor and futile in strument to save the weak brother. Take, for in stance, the unfortunate dope fiend. You can re move one poison from him by law, but he will readily get another, and perhaps a worse one; or he, will find means to defeat the law. This has been the sad ex perience of mankind in all times and countries. It is not surprising that such discouraging experience should give rise to a hopeless school of philosophy which holds, that the unfit shall eliminate themselves by means of their pleasant vices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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