I02 MAN, THE ANIMAL 



nually recruited. The boys of high school age 

 are the source of supply and it is the business of 

 prostitutes to secure as many as possible. 



All prostitutes sooner or later become diseased. 

 Science has made us just as familiar with the two 

 forms of venereal disease, gonorrhea and syphilis, 

 as we are with diphtheria and pneumonia. It has 

 proved conclusively that both of these diseases 

 are communicable by contact and that their devas- 

 tation is most serious. 



With all of the elaborate care that nature has 

 taken to produce normal germ cells, it is a sad 

 pity that intelligent human beings should be the 

 only forms of life that wilfully destroy them. 

 When man descends to prostitution he becomes 

 lower than animals, for through the diseases con- 

 tracted, he may render his germ cells incapable 

 of carrying on their work — the formation of a 

 new human being. 



Venereal disease, which is absent from animals, 

 is the chief cause of sterility and the cause of more 

 than 60 per cent, of all the operations upon the 

 reproductive organs of women. The results of 

 these diseases may be transmitted through several 

 generations. The fathers have eaten sour grapes 

 and the children's teeth are set on edge, is a figura- 

 tive description of what happens. There is only 

 one form of insanity for which a definite physical 

 cause is certainly known, and this form of insanity 



