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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    this momentous evil of depraved instinct is once originated, and every habit and circum- stance and influence contribute to perpetuate and increase it, that young concupiscence should kindle into a passion of despotic power, and compel the unwary youth, either to break through the restraints of civil and moral law, to find indulgence in illicit commerce,—or more clandestinely to yield to the more de- grading and destructive vice of self-pollu- tion ? To what avail, then, are moral laws, and civil legislation, and philanthropic efforts, in the cause of chastity, while all the elements combine to give invincible efficiency to the work of ruin ? As well might we attempt to prevent the eruption of volcanic mountains, when the internal fires were kindled, and the molten entrails were boilincr and heaving like the exasperated ocean ! As well might we think to stand before the gushing mouth of a crater, and roll back the burning tide, and
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