Altered States, but French!

"Among the drugs most efficient in creating what I call the artificial ideal, leaving on one side liquors which rapidly excite gross frenzy and lay flat all spiritual force, and the perfumes whose excessive use, while rendering more subtle man's imagination, wear out gradually his physical forces; the two most energetic substances, the most convenient and the most handy, are hashish and opium. 

"The analysis of the mysterious effect and the diseased pleasures which these drugs beget, of the inevitable chastisement which results from their prolonged use, and finally the immortality necessarily employed in this pursuit of a false ideal, constitutes the subject of this study."






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