Tell him, on the contrary,
that not one man in fifty, not one woman in a hundred, can
overcome the drink habit.
He will wink his tired eyes at you and say: "I want you
distinctly to understand that I'm one in a hundred." Tell him
how difficult it is--not how easy--and thus stir up his ambition.
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Above all, when you start out to admonish or despise the victim
of bad habits, just remember that you have no notion whatever of
what you criticise. Not one drunkard in a hundred has will power
to cure himself. Not one "virtuous" man in a thousand has
imagination enough to realize the drunkard's temptation and
suffering. We offer to your consideration this other extract
from Lecky's book, quoted above:
"The great majority of uncharitable judgments in the world may be
traced to a deficiency of imagination. * * * To realize with any
adequacy the force of a passion we have never experienced, to
conceive a type of character radically different from our own, *
* * requires a power of imagination which is among the rarest of
human endowments."
WHAT ARE THE TEN BEST BOOKS?
An interesting discussion progresses in Chicago. Mr. Sam T.
Clover has asked this startling question:
"If you were bound for a desert island, and could take with
you only ten books, which ten books would you select?"
Whoever is refined and well read in Chicago seems to have
answered Mr.
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