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He was born in Lund, Sweden, about 1847. His father was a clergyman, and Axel was educated in his native town.
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Excerpt from The Foundation of Death: A Study of the Drink-Question In researches which covered the examination of some three thousand works, dealing more or less directly with the alcohol question, I found excellent matter on special aspects of it, but no single work which attempted to treat of it in a comprehensive manner. The world-literature on alcohol is enormous, largely consisting of conflicting or dubious statements; records of experiments made by different authorities reaching divergent conclusions; cogent reasoning threaded by disintegrating fallacies; and contradictory promulgations by one and the same author in various works, and not infrequently in different parts of the same work. Though the task of distinguishing, from among the traces along such a shore, between the flotsam and jetsam of the fluctuating tides of popular prejudices and notions, and the actual deposit marking the gradual progress of Truth's laborious but certain advance, might fitly engage far greater powers than mine, I have not felt deterred from making this earnest attempt. The general difficulty in selecting from superabundance of material is well understood, but when the aim is to make a sound and suitable garment, three times the quantity of cloth needed does not make up for its being blemished and perforated in every yard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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He was born in Lund, Sweden, about 1847. His father was a clergyman, and Axel was educated in his native town.
At the age of twenty-one he came to the United States, was naturalized, and began to write for the press Becoming interested in the temperance movement, he contributed to a Boston journal an article on the Gottenburg system of granting licenses, which led to an investigation of the different licensing systems of the world. He also became a contributor to several of the leading periodicals.
Soon after coming to the United States, Gustafson married Zadel Barnes Buddington, who greatly assisted him in his literary work.
Going to England, Mr. and Mistress Gustafson met Samuel Morley, the philanthropist, who induced the former to change his intention of writing a work on the abuse of tobacco, and discuss the liquor question instead.
The Foundation of Death (London, 1884) was the outcome of this change of plan. This work discusses the use of liquor among the ancients, the history of the discovery of distillation, liquor adulterations, the effects of alcohol on the physical organs and functions, the social and moral results arising from the drinking habit, heredity, the use of alcohol as a medicine, and includes an inquiry into the methods of reformation.
lieutenant passed through three editions, and has been translated into Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Malagasy, Burmese, and Mahratta.
In 1887, Gustafson founded the National Prohibition Party to further his views.
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