A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham].

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1838
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ I have long hesitated ;—not, however, because I doubted the intrinsic propriety of publishing it, but because I doubted whether the world had sufficient virtue to receive it, without attempting to crucify me for the benefaction. But the more I have considered the subject, and the more extensively I have become acquainted with the existence of the evils which it is the object of the Lecture to remedy and prevent, the stronger has become my moral courage to “ dare do all that would become a man.” The unanimous expression of the opinion, in the American Lyceum at New York, in May last, that such a work was wanted, more than any other, and the urgent appeal which has more recently been made to me, from a highly respected source, have contributed to bring my mind to the full conclusion to publish this volume—with the most entire conviction that it will be the means of immeasurable good to my fellow creatures, and that it cannot possibly be the means of evil to any one. There are already several works on this subject, in English print;—hut many of them 2
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