Ｐｏｒｔｒａｉｔ ｏｆ ａｎ Ｉｄｅａｌ Ｗｏｒｌｄ（Ｅｘｃｅｒｐｔ）

魯 余 譯

That alcohol in dilute aqueous solution，when taken into the human organism，acts as a depressant，not as a stimulant，is now so much a commonplace of knowledge that even the more advanced varieties of physiologists are beginning to be aware of it.The intelligent layman no longer resorts to the jug when he has important business before him，whether intellectual or manual; he resorts to it after his business is done，and he desires to release his taut nerves and reduce the steam-pressure in his spleen.Alcohol，so to speak，unwinds us.