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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    much more rapidly developed than are their rational and moral powers; and a preter- natural excitability of the nerves of organic life is inevitably induced ; while other habits of luxury and effeminacy serve to increase the general debility of their system, and assist in throwing a common anarchical depravity over the whole domain of instinct. The genital organs partake of the common condi- tion of the nervous system, and very early in life—long before their perfect development and final cause, justify and demand their func- tional exercise—acquire an increased sensi- bility, and what may be called a morbid prurience, which continually appeals to the brain, and throws its influence over the opera- tions of the intellectual and moral faculties; controlling the decision of the understanding, and, at times, even forcing the will against the remonstrance of the moral sense. There are some other auxiliary causes con- cerned in this evil, of so much importance that
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