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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    gies, and finally lie down and fall asleep in death, without an agony—without a pain. Young friends, I am not fanciful; I only assert the constitutional capabilities of your nature. God made you to be happy. He gave you all your power’s and faculties for good ; and if you suffer evil, depend upon it, it comes not from the legitimate and undis- turbed economy of your original constitution. Whatever, therefore, increases your know- ledge of ycur constitutional nature, and makes you better acquainted with those laws of life upon which your health and happiness depend, cannot be otherwise than interesting to you. Constituted as man is, two grand functions of his system are necessary for his existence as an individual and as a species. The first is Nutrition; the second is Reproduction. Nutrition is the general function by which the body is nourished and sustained; and includes, in its detail, digestion, absorption,
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