text:  that the opium of twenty-five years was a thing easily to be forsworn ) where a child could know that he was wrong was he even altogether right secondly in believing that his own life root and branch had been withered by opium? For it will not follow because with a relation to happiness and tranquillity a man may have found opium his curse that therefore as a creature of energies and great purposes he must have been the wreck which he seems to suppose