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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    greatly prefer to have the husband of each lady present; for I am confident that every virtuous husband and father in the world would highly approve of all I say ; and it would he far less embarrassing and painful to me, to address an audience of husbands and wives, than of females only. The exclusion, therefore, of all males from those Lectures, is not a measure of my own ; but of the ladies who attend them. And certainly, when ladies can justly place a proper degree of confidence in the Lecturer, there can be no well grounded objection to their attending Lectures on sub- jects particularly appropriate to females, and especially to mothers. “ To the pure,” says St. Paul, “ all things are pure: ” and it may be added with equal truth, that to the impure, all things are impure. It seems that most people are incapable of conceiving the possibility, that others, should possess those virtues of which they are desti- tute themselves ; and hence they always set about finding some extraordinarily bad motive for every extraordinary action in others. But ignorance and prejudice are the principal
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