Dickens, Charles – The Uncommercial Traveller

dispute whatever. Manifestly, in strict accordance with teetotal

doctrines, THEY must come in too, and take the total abstinence

from horseflesh pledge. It is not pretended that those members of

the procession misused certain auxiliaries which in most countries

and all ages have been bestowed upon man for his use, but it is

undeniable that other members of the procession did. Teetotal

mathematics demonstrate that the less includes the greater; that

the guilty include the innocent, the blind the seeing, the deaf the

hearing, the dumb the speaking, the drunken the sober. If any of

the moderate users of draught-cattle in question should deem that

there is any gentle violence done to their reason by these elements

of logic, they are invited to come out of the procession next

Whitsuntide, and look at it from my window.

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