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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    and wine, and to indulge in various other stimulants, with which civic life is universally cursed, and effeminate their bodies with feather beds and enervating dress,—in short, if we will sedulously educate them to all the degen- erating habits of luxury, indolence, voluptu- ousness and sensuality, we shall be more indebted to their want of opportunity to sin, than to any other cause, for the preservation of their bodily chastity,—if, indeed, we escape the heart-rending anguish of seeing them the early victims of passions, which we have been instrumental in developing to an irresistible power ! For these lascivious, and exceedingly pernicious day-dreams'of the young, are but the first buddings of a depraved instinct, which will not be satisfied with *tbe passive reveries of the mind and affections of the body. The delicate susceptibilities of youth being constantly tortured, and their young blood continually heated, by a stimulating and de- praving diet, their animal propensities are
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