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The story of wine is the story of human culture. From the dim, legendary days when Osiris, reigning on earth as a king, taught the ancient Egyptians to cultivate wheat and barley, to train the vine, and to tread the purple grapes in the wine press, we find in the use of intoxicants one of the distinguishing marks of the higher types and races of humanity. Throughout the world corn and wine have gone together as at once the agents and the symbols of civilization, and their mystic significance is still recognized today in the most solemn and sacred rite of the Christian religion.
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