In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
Horace Mann (1852). “Two Lectures on Intemperance: The effects of intemperance on the poor and ignorant. The effects of intemperance on the rich and educated. I.. II.”, p.74
