Propensity for stealing.

Next, I will give a case of propensity for stealing . I knew, numerous years back, an exceptionally smart, productive and skilled young fellow, who disclosed to me that at whatever point he had been drinking, he could scarcely withstand, the allurement of taking anything that came in his direction; yet that these emotions never disturbed him at different circumstances. One evening, after he had been reveling with his kindred laborers in drink, his will, sadly, was overwhelmed, and he took from the manor where he was working a few articles of worth, for which he was blamed, and a while later sentenced to a term of detainment. At the point when set at freedom he had the favorable luck to be set among some kind-hearted people, indecently called teetotallers ; and, from upright thought processes, marked the PLEDGE, now over a quarter century. From that opportunity to the present minute he has never encountered the overmastering want which so frequently assail him in his drinking days to take what was not his own. In addition, no appearance on earth could now allure him to taste of any alcohol containing liquor, feeling that, under its impact, he may again fall its casualty. He holds a powerful position in the town where he lives.

I have known a few women of good position in the public arena, who, after a supper or dinner party, and in the wake of having taken sundry glasses of wine, couldn’t withstand the enticement of bringing home any little article not their own, when the open door offered; and who, in their calm minutes, have returned them, as though taken by mix-up. We have many cases recorded in our police reports of noble men of position, affected by drink, submitting robberies of the most negligible articles, a while later came back to the proprietors by their companions, which must be represented, mentally, by the way that the will had been for the time totally overwhelmed by the inconspicuous impact of liquor.