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The Law is for All
speed.”1 Any one who is doing his true Will is drunk with the 
delight of Life.
1 [A paraphrase of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound ii, 4.]
2 [William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935), baseball player turned 
Revivalist preacher, noted for his flamboyant style and crusading zeal.]
Wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing 
their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with Origi­
nal Sin. In Latin countries, where Sin is not taken seriously, and 
sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a 
rare accident. It is only in Puritan countries, where self-analysis, 
under the whip of a coarse bully like Billy Sunday,1 2 brings the 
hearer to “conviction of sin,” that he hits first the “trail” and then 
the “booze.” Can you imagine an evangelist in Taormina? It is to 
laugh.
This is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced 
no conversions whatever, save among the lowest types of negro, 
who resemble the Anglo-Saxon in this possession of the “fear-of- 
God” and “Sin” psychopathies.
Truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity 
that the thought of self is a realization of hell. Therefore they fly 
to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of 
introspection.
The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery 
which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, 
you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. There is no bet­
ter rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. If a man is sim­
ple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. If he 
is afraid, he is already a slave. Let the whole world take opium, 
hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them were 
better dead.
For it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to 
reveal a man to himself. If this revelation declare a Star, then it 
shines brighter ever after. If it declare a Christian—a thing nor 
man nor beast, but a muddle of mind—he craves the drug, no 
more for its analytical but for its numbing effect. Lytton has a