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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    respects, completely developed, and their functional faculties are perfected, the voice, ordinarily, begins to assume more of the manly tone, and perhaps the beard begins to put forth with increased vigor:—and we know, also, that if the male be castrated in early childhood, the voice always remains small and feminine,—the beard does not grow,—and the development of the features, the confor- mation of parts, and the general aspect, air and bearing of the individual, are soft, delicate and effeminate. But if the male attains to the thirtieth year of his age, and all his organs are fully developed and established in their functional powers, before castration is per- formed, the voice undergoes no perceptible change, and the beard continues to grow as before ; nor is there any considerable diminu- tion of muscular strength nor mental power. Many other facts might also be adduced, to demonstrate that it is not the secretion and re-absorption of the semen which causes the
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