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Show How Temptation Comes. Unhappy victims of what are called the minor vices, who try lo brcik off smoking, and spend a lifetime In ever-varying ever-varying struggle, or who desire alcoholic alco-holic stimulation when the) need It not may, te nlded In a philosophical contemplation of the cross the) bear I') rending what William De Witt H)de sa) In the November Atlantic. "In the language of phvslologltnl psy- cnology a present appetite piesents Its clilms on great billows of nerve commotion com-motion which come rolling In with nil the tung and pugnnty which Is the characteristic mark of Immediate perl-Phcial perl-Phcial excitation " This is not per haps, the language In which the man who wants to take n drink would ex press himself, but after reidlng It throiiRh carefully two or three times he will nnd that It fully covers the case There is nothing more convincing, there could be nothing more convincing convinc-ing Having the "Immediate peripheral excltotlon," nnd nn Immediate perl pheral Invitation who but a saint eould teslst A present appetite presents It self on Breat billows of nerve commotion commo-tion nnd where nre we' full) twent) feet from the lifeline nnd no getting to It, with billows still coming Hereto-fore Hereto-fore many have truthfully said "We don't know why we do It but we do" This state of unenlightenment ns to first causes can no longer continue after af-ter William De Witt II)de has made It clear In the language of ph)slologlcal ps) etiology. |