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The Australian temperance magazine

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N 178 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : Committee of the New South Wales Temperance Society, 1837-1840
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 4 (October 1, 1838)
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AUSTRALIAN  

TEMPERANCE MAGAZINE.  

No. 4.  

OCT 3SSII 1333.  

Vol. XI.  

Temperance is moderation in things innocent, and abstinence from things hurtful.  

CIVILIZATION.  

Australia, Colony of civilized  

Europe, daughter of civilized Britain  

is to retain and extend the blessings  

she has received. She meets with  

the rude savage of the Austral wilds  

she is destined to trade with the half  

civilized nations of Polynesia and  

she must yet receive into her bosom  

many of the children of the Indian  

Islands, the sons of China, and the  

diversified population of British India.  

If correct notion of civilization be  

important to any nation, it is doubly  

so to Australia; if truly civilized, she  

may run career so bright that the  

glory of modern empires will fade be-  

fore her, but if unmindful of her duty  

or erroneous in her judgment she may  

bear for many ages, and perhaps for  

ever, the obloquy which has been cast  

upon her.  

It is not within the scope of this  

magazine to point out the geogra-  

phical position of the territory and the  

political features of Colonial society,  

nor to call the ministers of religion  

and the friends of social order to an  

unflinching advocacy of every noble  

and beneficent design which may be  

proposed to the public in the present  

day. The humble aim of this peri-  

odical is to fix upon one impediment to  

national greatness, and, if possible,  

to cast the stumbling block out of the  

way.  

Sons of Australia Help Your  

country can be neither great nor good  

while you allow vice which has long  

been stigma to your name to remain  

as distinctive feature in your history.  

We need not whisper the word drunk-  

enness. You have felt the blush of  

OCTOBER 1, 1838.  

shame while travellers and historio-  

graphers have written down your  

country as land of drunkenness,  

and it will be to your indelible dis-  

grace if you warrant the depth of the  

libel by affording it the sanction of  

truth. Say not that the matter lies  

beyond your contro and affect not  

to despise efforts made for subjecting  

the national vice and crime as founded  

on visionary basis you have the  

power, oh inhabitants of the land to  

accomplish this, and what another  

portion of the human race has effected  

you may surely attempt.  

We may appear to be bearing hard  

upon the native youth, but we asso-  

ciate with them all the established  

Colonists, those who have an interest  

in the land, in her glory, and her  

weal and addressing the collective  

wealth and virtue of the Colony, we  

repeat, that you can accomplish this  

mighty reformation, for the embodied  

power which built the pyramids of  

Egypt, or carried away the very dust  

of Tyre, can wipe away this foul dis-  

grace from Australia, and erect an im-  

perishable monument of national  

greatness. Numbers accomplished  

these ancient wonders—numbers—*  

your numbers can perform the noble  

work proposed for as the stream  

turned through the Augean stable  

cleansed it of its defilement, each liquid  

spherule bearing away with it single  

particle of filth, so your united efforts  

can extract the very stains of drunk-  

enness, and leave purified founda-  

tion for sacred and magnificent  

structure. In the suppression of  

drunkenness no natural impossibility  

presents itself; there is no hindrance  

from the Decrees of Providence, fheS'Q  

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