. The school physiology journal . into other business or cut intwo every glass of beer they sell. Blackstone says, Law is embodied senti-ment. Prohibitory law is embodied sentimentagainst alcohol. Such sentiment must be madeby education, before it can be embodied intostatutes, and when once secured must be main-tained by teaching each succeeding generationthat alcohol is by nature an outlaw which mustbe driven out. Only thus can prohibitory stat-utes be perpetuated. A stream will not risehigher than its source. The chief source ofanti-alcohol sentiment in the twentieth centuryis the schoolhous
. The school physiology journal . into other business or cut intwo every glass of beer they sell. Blackstone says, Law is embodied senti-ment. Prohibitory law is embodied sentimentagainst alcohol. Such sentiment must be madeby education, before it can be embodied intostatutes, and when once secured must be main-tained by teaching each succeeding generationthat alcohol is by nature an outlaw which mustbe driven out. Only thus can prohibitory stat-utes be perpetuated. A stream will not risehigher than its source. The chief source ofanti-alcohol sentiment in the twentieth centuryis the schoolhouse. The states that year afteryear teach, as a progressive study, all their chil-dren, especially in the lower grades where alonethe largest possible numbers can be reached,the physiological reasons for obeying the lawsof health, including those that teach total absti-nence from alcoholic drinks and other narcotics,are the nearest to the overthrow of the awfuldominion of alcohol within their borders. 142 SCHOOL PHYSIOLOGY JOURNAL. ORGANS OF THE BODY LORD Kelvins summary of the progress ofinventions applies equally well to almostevery other field of intellectual attain-ment. He said : What yesterday I shouldhave declared impossible I have today seenrealized. Man is able to achieve ever greater results,because his health and physical capacity forwork have kept pace with his mental year more attention is paid to hygieneand sanitation in the schoolroom, the home andthe community, and, in consequence, epidemicsare disappearing and the death rate is continu-ally being lowered. Increased knowledge of the dangers inherentin alcoholic drinks, tobacco, and other forms ofnarcotics, and of their power to lessen humanendeavor, will as surely lead to total abstinenceas another of the pre-requisites to health. Thesuccessful man of the future can not afford todrink, because he must have a sound body, andeven moderate drinking weakens nearly everyorgan; he must have mental vigor, an
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