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...than under the water diet. This was an expenditure of extra energy on the alcohol days sufficient to raise 15.8 tons one foot. After all trace of alcohol had disappeared from the system in the subject of this experiment, the action of the heart was found to be much feebler than usual. A fatty heart is one which is over laid with masses of fat as the external muscles may be in a man who is soft, or out of condition, or one in which the fibres of the muscle itself have been broken down and replaced by fat; this...
...seem likely to advance in poetical achievement as fast as the other country is giving way. The danger is that the work of our first century of national life will be undone by Anglomania and dilletantism; but, so far as we now can see, that danger threatens only those feebler singers whose voice could under no circumstances be heard very far. - Yale...