...friends : "Your remarks are just ; they are, indeed, too true, but I can no longer resist temptation. If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit...hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took a glass, I could not refrain. You are very kind, good friends,...

...craving is that of a madman, and all but absolutely irresistible. An inebriate with this craving said: " If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and if I were convinced that I would be pushed in as soon as I took one drink, I could not refrain." Many...

...between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get the ruin ;" " If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit...glass, I could not refrain :" such statements abound iu dipsomaniacs' mouths. Dr. Mussey of Cincinnati relates this case : '*' A few years ago a tippler...

...act by the exclamation, " Now I am satisfied." Another dipsomaniac made the following statement: " If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit...other, and I were convinced that I should be pushed in so surely as I took one glass, I could not refrain." Similar statements are frequently heard by those...

...a bottle of brandy stood on one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass...case. " A few years ago a tippler was put into an almhouse in this State. Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but had...

...a bottle of brandy stood on one hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as sure as I took one glass,...refrain." Such statements abound in dipsomaniacs' mouths." * 351. It is evident that we can in no way account for the difference between races with respect to...

...the act by the exclamation, "Now I am satisfied." Another dipsomaniac made the following statement: "If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand and the pit...other, and I were convinced that I should be pushed in so surely as I took one glass, I could not refrain." Similar statements are frequently heard by those...

...hand, and the pit of hell yawned on the other, and I were convinced I should be pushed in as surely as I took one glass, I could not refrain.' Such statements abound in dipsomaniacs' mouths." Between this extreme, and the other of the man who is sickened by a single glass of beer, there are...

...physical barriers can prevent a man from getting what he craves. "The craving for drink," says James, "in real dipsomaniacs, or for opium or chloral in...refrain'; such statements abound in dipsomaniacs' mouths." 20 Suicide shows inability or unwillingness to adjust one's self to the environment. It is the result...

...beliefs. This is the picture of addiction so eloquently expressed by William James: The craving for a drink in real dipsomaniacs, or for opium or chloral...refrain:' such statements abound in dipsomaniacs' mouths. (James 1890: 543) James wrote more than a century ago, but the view he espoused is still common. It...