Excerpt from The Link: Something to Build On The foregoing paragraph is one of the most illuminating ever penned about alcohol in relation to modern life. The apologist for liquor in Life seems to be saying that the man of today can avoid responsibilities, heedfulness, and the voice of conscience whenever any of the results of his activities begin to disturb him, by resorting to a drink or two with alcoholic content. Human character is in no lofty and dignified position, as com pared to the lower animals the Life writer mentions, when faced with this frank admiration for the animal's ability to escape consequences for its acts or failures to act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.