strings: But if it be true, as I have insisted, that those who have suffered by intemperance personally, and have reformed, are the most powerful and effcient instruments to push the reformation to ultimate success, it does not follow that those who have not suffered have no part left them to   perform. Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total and final banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems to me not now an open question. Three fourths of mankind confess the affrmative with their tongues, and, I believe, all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.