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Notes about this image:Benjamin Rush, "Moral and Physical Thermometer" of Temperance and Intemperance, 1789
Citation:"An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors on the Human Body and the Mind." Boston: Thomas and Andrews. In The Columbian Magazine, January 1789. Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, the State University, 607 Allison Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8001. In W.J. Rorabaugh, "The Alcoholic Republic," 1979, p. 44
Standard:8.1-1.00 the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor

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