I never took enough of stimulants to tell whether it is good or ill
for "thinking and working." Tobacco is only good when you have a habit
of working too much, as it makes you lazy-minded.
G. J. HOLYOAKE.
April 3, 1882.
SIR J. D. HOOKER, F. R. S.
I have had no experience on the subject of the use of tobacco and
alcohol that is of any value, or you should be welcome to it.
Jos. D. HOOKER.
Feb. 13, 1882.
MR. W. D. HOWELLS.
If you will allow me to count myself out of the list of "great
thinkers "and _very_ "popular authors," I will gladly contribute
my experience in the points you publish. I never use tobacco, except
in a very rare, self-defensive cigarette, where a great many other
people are smoking; and I commonly drink water at dinner. When I take
wine, I think it weakens my work, and my working force the next
morning.
W. D. HOWELLS.
March 2, 1882.
DR. J. P. JOULE.
I am afraid that my experience can be of little use to you, because I
have lived a very uniform life; and am therefore unable to compare the
consequences from following various _regimes_.. I use alcoholic
beverages moderately. I do not think they ever assisted or retarded my
mental work. As for tobacco, it is the object of my aversion, as it
must be to all non-smokers to whom the habits of the consumers of the
weed must always appear more or less as an impertinence.
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