Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition men have at all times and in all countries called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine beer opium brandy or tobacco.
An American monkey after getting drunk on brandy would never touch it again and thus is much wiser than most men.
What breadth what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades all the fences within which she is held captive!