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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    therefore its final cause, or constitutional pur- pose, does not require its constant exercise ; and accordingly, the organs constituting the apparatus necessary for this function, are not all complete in their development and func- tional powers, until many years after birth. In the lower orders of animals, both of these important functions are under the control of instinct; and therefore the range of their exercise is more strongly defined and limited. They have no artificial means of rendering their food pernicious, and therefore do not impair their organs of nutrition. They are— in a pure state of nature—instinctively peri- odical in their sexual desires, and therefore do not suffer from an excessive exercise of the function of reproduction. But in man, these important functions—and especially that of reproduction—are, as to their exercise, placed under the control of the rational powers. I do not, however, mean to say, that there- fore man may indulge his sexual appetite 4
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