[207] Holst, op. cit., p. 530.

[Note to the American Edition: Cf. further upon alcoholism among the Jews, Dr. L. Cheinisse, “Die Rassenpathologie und der Alkoholismus bei den Juden.”] [↑]

[208] Vandervelde, “Die ökonomischen Faktoren des Alkoholismus”, pp. 742, 743. [↑]

[209] See Zerboglio, op. cit., pp. 125–127; Grotjahn, op. cit., pp. 149–155; Verhaeghe, op. cit., pp. 187–189. [↑]

[210] This has actually happened, certain distilleries in the whisky trust being closed to increase the profits. [↑]

[211] See Vandervelde, “Het alcoholisme en de arbeidsvoorwaarden in België”, p. 268. [↑]

[212] See Grotjahn, op. cit., pp. 219–221. [↑]

[213] See Grotjahn, op. cit., pp. 5–12. [↑]

[214] Grotjahn, op. cit., p. 9. See also: Hirschfeld, “Die historische Entwicklung des Alkoholmissbrauchs” (VIII Intern. Cong. gegen den Alkoholismus). [↑]

[215] The assertion that the Germans were addicted to alcohol before the invasion is erroneous. Agriculture was not sufficiently developed among these peoples for a regular consumption of alcohol. See Kautsky, op. cit., pp. 46, 47, and Grotjahn, op. cit., pp. 13–15. [↑]