The New Christianity Author:John Ellis Subtitle: An Appeal to the Clergy and to All Men in Behalf of Its Life of Charity; Pertaining to Diseases, Their Origin and Cure; the Use of Intoxicants as Beverages ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: published by the author Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / General Religio... more »n / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE CAUSE AND LAWS OF FERMENTATION -- ARE THERE ANY IMPURITIES IN MUST OR UNFERMENTED WINE ? It is supposed by many who are not acquainted with comparatively recent scientific discoveries, that the fermentation of grape- juice is a natural and orderly process of purification, and. that the agent which causes fermentation is developed in the grape itself, instead of coming into the juice from without. Now, careful experiments have shown that these views are entirely erroneous; and that the fermentation of wine is no more an orderly step in purifying the juice of grapes, than putrefaction is an orderly process in purifying meats; for in both instances the germs come from without, and if they are carefully excluded or destroyed the wine will never ferment and the meat will not putrefy. We have had occasion repeatedly in our works on " The Wine Question," to speak of the change that ferment makes in the juice of the grape, or new wine, changing or destroying the sugar, albumen and other nutritious substances that are so pleasant to the taste and so healthful to the body of man, and substituting in their place the intoxicating and poisonous spirit, alcohol. As the correctness of our representation has been questioned, we think it well to furnish the reader in this volume with such information...« less