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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    proud, rational man is the only one who has degraded his nature, and, by his voluntary depravity, rendered this life a pilgrimage of pain, and the world one vast lazar-bouse for his species, and the earth a mighty sepulchre, for those who prematurely fall the victims of the innumerable diseases which result from the violation of the laws of life. How important, then, is it, that man should understand his nature and relations, that he may know and perform his duties consistently with the con- stitutional laws of his life. I The functions of nutrition and reproduction depend on the vital properties of the tissues which form the organs of the system—particu- larly the muscular and nervous tissues, and more especially the nervous. The nerves belonging to the human body are divided into two classes. First, the Brain and Spinal Marrow, with their various cords, branches, fibres and
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