Alcohol is a poison
"Alcohol for inebriates acts as a mental-nerve poison in a manner that it does not for the normal drinker, regardless of the comparative conditions of the two in the early stages of what is to be an evening's dissipation for one and a debauch for the other."
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This book was a major influence for Bill Wilson, co-founder of AA. The author was an alcoholic himself who understood ISM’s center in the mind as an obsessive idea one must carry out DESPITE the unfortunate consequences already proven by such ideas being carried to their fruition. Alcoholism is the most extreme example and this book, while only discussing the mental twist of the alcohol idea, can be applied to any idea which has turned destructive in its fruits. This book only deals with the mental twist of alcohol.
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