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The latter days are but a repetition of the former. `As it was ... so shall it be also. They did eat, they drank.'
Social life is intimately connected with the social or festive board; in short, with eating and drinking, because these are a necessity of nature. Other customs and habits may be fleeting, but men must eat, men must drink. Food ministers not only to the principle of life, but to that of brain force also. Thought is stimulated, activity is excited, man becomes communicable. He then seeks society and enjoys it. Thus has social intercourse gathered round the social board. Eating and drinking are two indispensable factors in dealing with the history of a nation's social life. Adopting the adage by way of accommodation, `In vino veritas,' truth is out when wine is in, once know the entire history of a nation's drinking, and you have important materials for gauging that nation's social life.
So does Richard Valpy French continue in his introduction to Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England.
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