{"id":5953,"date":"2025-01-17T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:00:00","slug":"the-human-species-managed-without-this-filthy-narcotic-before-its-discovery-was-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5953","title":{"rendered":"THE HUMAN SPECIES MANAGED WITHOUT THIS FILTHY NARCOTIC BEFORE ITS DISCOVERY WAS MADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this snippet from Eugene\u2019s letter to the novice master in England.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>Keep firm control lest the abuse of tobacco be introduced into your novitiate. Be quite sure that it is only a mania. The human species managed without this filthy narcotic before its discovery was made. How can anyone wish to be persuaded that he cannot live without it? I speak seriously. One could feed a missionary with what this absurdity costs&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>To Fr. Charles Bellon, in England, 13 June 1849, EO III n 28<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cGiving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I&#8217;ve done it thousands of times.\u201d (Mark Twain)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t resist sharing this snippet from Eugene\u2019s letter to the novice master in England. Keep firm control lest the abuse of tobacco be introduced into your novitiate. Be quite sure that it is only a mania. The human species &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5953\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}