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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    amorous reveries, in which young people too> generally—and especially the idle,, and the voluptuous, and the sedentaiy, and the ner- vous—are exceedingly apt to indulge, are often the sources of general debility, effemi- nacy, disordered functions, and permanent disease, and even premature death, without the actual exercise of the genital organs 1 Indeed, this unchastity of thought—this adul- tery of the mind—is the beginning of immea- surable evil to the human family:—and while children are regularly, though unintentionally trained to it, by all the mistaken fondness of parents, and all the circumstances of civic life, it is but mockery in the ear of Heaven to deprecate the evil consequences ; and folly, little short of fatuity, to attempt to arrest the current of crime that flows from it. If we will train our offspring into the early and free use of flesh-meat, and accustom them to high-seasoned food, and richly prepared dishes, and learn them to drink tea, and coffee,
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