gain and the factor of sudden loss come to one and the same result. You see the gambler perplexed, fearful, waiting — now smiling and now scowling, now winning and now losing. The human brain cannot endure these fluctuations, and the end is either madness or early death.
3 — His aversion to the family atmosphere and his hatred of his family: the gambler fancies that his losses are caused by some ill omen in his house, and so family happiness withers away, and nothing is seen or heard but quarreling and fighting. And since the family is the foundation of religion, when family happiness vanishes religion vanishes with it — and oh, the calamity of that house, and its loss!
4 — The destruction of the gambler's spirit: he has no personality and no religion; no respect for him and none from him; no family and no friends; no immunity against disease. Constant fluctuation and perpetual quarreling — what use, then, is he?
As for the ways of guarding against this malignant disease: among them is what governments do by legislating to forbid gambling, closing its clubs, and punishing those who practice it; and among them are preaching and guidance in the houses of God and in the halls of discipline and instruction. But souls hardened in corruption are moved by neither promise nor threat, and their reform is to be hoped for only in rare cases. And nature herself may be the best deterrent to a man from the vices in which he is sunk: the sickness and misery that befall the drunkard, for instance, may bar him from tippling wine, and the bankruptcy, sickness, and misery that befall the gambler may bar him from continuing to gamble.
Therefore the evil must be forestalled before it falls: that is, the utmost care must be given to the affairs of the young, warding dangers off them and forestalling whatever might lure them down into the pits of corruption, by directing their wayward inclinations toward what will profit them and make their condition happy. This is done by giving them a sound upbringing at home and at school; by training their characters to aspire toward the high ideals in which shine forth the lofty morals
and excellent qualities that alone can keep a man far from every vice; and by establishing athletic and educative clubs containing every kind of sport and of bodily and mental recreation. For in such institutions the young man finds what his soul longs for; he grows up in a wholesome atmosphere of sport and morals, and goes out into the world strong in body, mind, and character. It is hard for
such a youth to be swayed by the temptations and corruptions of the age that he meets in his life, for in him there is a great store of moral immunity.
And what is said of the man is said also of the woman, for this baneful disease has spread among most of the ladies — until it is even said that the lady who does not play is still backward in civilization and refinement!
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