Présentation de l'éditeur
My Shakespeare! Thou art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read and praise to give. Ben Jon son. Alcohol is on its trial. It has been arraigned before the bar of public opinion on at least a dozen counts. It stands accused of murder in the first degree and of every other crime. Many are the witnesses who bear testimony every day to its evil deeds; on the other hand there are those who argue in its defense. Let us hear from a few of these as they speak to us from the pages of the immortal Shakespeare, giving faithful testimony to their innermost thoughts and feelings on this important subject. They are as much alive as they ever were. We pass them on the street, and we live with them in the home, for human nature remains ever the same, and as for Shakespeare it has well been said of him, He was not for an age but for all time. It is true we cannot call these witnesses into any court of law. Did we attempt to detain them they would vanish into air, into thin air, and like the baseless fabric of a vision leave not a rack behind. They are such stuff as dreams are made of, but they are none the less real for that. Nothing is more real than thought; it remains as strong and vital as ever when the brain that gave it birth has been moldering for centuries in the dust. In order to secure the testimony of these people we must catch them unawares. We must wait our opportunity and listen to their speech as they talk among themselves of their joys and sorrows, the mingled yarn that forms the warp and woof of life. Let us take five witnesses for the defense and five for the prosecution and listen to them with an open mind, considering carefully, not only each individual testimony but also the character of the witness. If we have learned the priceless lesson to delight no less in truth than life, let us weigh the evidence pro and con as fairly and
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
Présentation de l'éditeur
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