England's Greatest National Sin: Being Selections and Reflections on Our Asiatic Opium Policy and Traffic:

Indian opium trade is a subject which as yet it seems impossible to discuss with fairness and moderation. But the remedy for this undoubtedly lies, not in silence, but in increased discussion. That millions of human beings have been and are being ruined by opium is a fact that cannot be denied, nor is it palliated by the equally certain fact that millions who have never tasted the drug are daily ruined by other forms of self-indulgence. If it can be proved that the English nation, as a body...