It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised." in the context of "Charles Buxton; reported to be in his pamphlet How to Stop Drunkenness in Grappling with the Monsterhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/13509/13509.txt by T. S. Arthur." to mean that wisdom is timeless.