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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    The following is an extract from a letter written by the chaplain of one of our New England State Prisons to a brother clergyman in a neighboring state : “ My Dear Sir :—For the letter and copy of Gra- ham’s Lecture to Young Men which you were so good as to send me, please to accept my sincere thanks. A better service you could scarcely have done me. 1 have obeyed you. I have read the book three times, and derived more benefit from the last, than from either of the other readings. I like this book. Why is it not in the market? Why is it not in the hands of every young man, especially in cities, to counteract the influ- ence of indecent pictures and corrupting books? A young man here in prison from one of the most respect- able families in one of the principal cities of New England, gives me a painful account of the ease and frequency with which books of most corrupting char- acter are circulated among the youth of both sexes in high and low life in that city. One excellence in Graham’s Lecture, as it strikes me, is, that it is so purely philosophical.' Even an atheist might see force in his statements. A man must deny many of the best established principles of science, before he can deny most of the conclusions, to which the lecturer comes. May 7,1836.”