In other cases, tobacco dulls and deadens the nerves controlling the heart, as it does the rest of the nervous system and the brain, so that the smoker feels as if nothing were worth while doing very hard, and it becomes difficult for him to fix his mind upon a subject.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Just as alcohol deadens the body and the senses, especially the higher ones-so it has a terrible effect upon the mental and moral sides of our natures.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
Slaveholding is wrong under all circumstances, because it either darkens the minds, brutalizes the souls, and deadens the affections of the slaves, or, without any necessity, renders such spiritual death not merely possible, but almost inevitable.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch