Excerpt from The Foundation of Death: A Study of the Drink-Question In researches which covered the examination of some three thousand works, dealing more or less directly with the alcohol question, I found excellent matter on special aspects of it, but no single work which attempted to treat of it in a comprehensive manner. The world-literature on alcohol is enormous, largely consisting of conflicting or dubious statements records of experiments made by different authorities reaching divergent conclusions; cogent reasoning threaded by disintegrating fallacies and contradictory promulgations by one and the same author in various works, and not infrequently in different parts of the same work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.