The Cure of Alcoholism (Classic Reprint)

The reason for the existence of this book is to call attention to the fact that the efforts commonly made in opposition to alcoholism are too specialized: they try to plant sobriety in a soil not fitted for it. Sobriety is only a part of temperance, and temperance itself is but one indivisible phase of that spiritual unity called the cardinal virtues. The drunkard must aim at the acquisition in the natural order of all the cardinal virtues, or their reception in the supernatural order, since he is lacking in each of these almost as much as he fails in temperance, and temperance will never come to any one unaccompanied by the other virtues. When the drunkard, striving toward a new life, acquires these virtues, sobriety is added as a matter of course.

Again, it is impossible, short of a miracle of grace, to cure a drunkard whilst the physical effects of the drug he is taking are present, therefore before applying moral treatment, physical elimination of the poison must be accomplished.

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