Conscience and alcohol

Posted by Peter Jenkins on April 01, 2003

I have been asked about a saying attributed to a Thomas Blackburn to the effect that: We do not know much about concscience except that it is soluble in alchol.

Does anyone know the origin of this and who was Blackburn?

• Conscience and alcohol ESC 04/02/03
  • Conscience and alcohol S. 04/02/03