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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 68

Section XIII. Of Temperance

Section XIII. Of Temperance.

133. Q. What is temperance?

A. Temperance may he defined as that habitual self-control which prevents our going to excess in pleasure or any other self-gratification.

139. Q. Is self-control a duty?

A. We should at all times control our actions and desires within the limits of duty to our better self and to others.

140. Q. For what reasons?

A. Because our better self is alone capable of the truest joys and happiness, and distinguishes us from the remainder of the animal creation.

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141. Q. What then should guide us?

A. We should regulate our gratification of self by the dictates of temperance and self-control.

142. Q. What should be specially avoided?

A. We should avoid excess in eating or drinking, especially the hateful and degrading vice of drunkenness, and all other actions which will take away our self-respect and cause us to feel ashamed.

143. Q. How may this be done?

A. By occupying the mind with useful and ennobling studies, by healthy recreations, by shunning bad company, and by recognising that true manliness implies the knowledge and mastery of ourselves.