The stomach, overloaded, performs its work imperfectly, and thus imposes on all the organs an extra amount of work, which breaks them down prematurely, causing diseases of every kind, such as nervous headache, sick headache, rush of blood to the head, apoplexy, sore eyes, deafness, erysipelas, neuralgia of the face, decayed teeth, catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, nausea, common colic, congestion of the liver, and a host of other diseases too unpleasant to mention. In some cases there is a disposition of too much fatty matter in the system; and many people suppose that fatness is a sign of healthfulness, which is false. No one needs any more fat on his body than is essential to form cushions for his tendons and muscles; if too much, there is a depletion of strength. The crowded and overloaded condition of the system makes the body take on very many false manifestations. The irritation produced in an overcharged system manifests itself in different forms in different individuals. In some it produces nervousness, making them rack the flesh off their bones and keeping them poor; and in others it produces sluggishness, retaining defunct matter in the system, making them corpulent. As I have said, our highly-seasoned foods create morbid and abnormal appetites. As a consequence we eat too much and too often, the system being borne down by overwork in its digestive department, there comes a demand for stimulating drinks and medicines to take off the depression and to keep up tone; and to make ourselves feel good, after having made ourselves feel bad, by improper eating, some of us resort to tea and coffee, and others to alcohol, and then the excitement produced demands a sedative, and some of us smoke and others chew a poisonous weed called tobacco. Thus the poor body, subject to these revulsions of unnatural action in overwork and stimulation and sedation, is goaded to abnormities and unnatural action, sending up to the soul no other influences but those which drive it to moral madness and vicious deeds. Now, vice is a morbid exhibition of the will. The will is represented through the physical organ, the brain, and the brain is straightway affected by the condition of the body and the state of the blood. The will is that power of the mind by which we put forth volitions and perform actions. If the pressure of bad blood is on the brain, that same pressure is on the will; hence a sick man or a diseased man will do a great many bad things through the power of bad blood on the will. Vice, then, is both the result and cause of physical derangement. Hence that vice of vices, drunkenness.