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structural degenerations of various sorts. Largely 

 through the influence of impurity, a vast multitude of 

 persons who might properly be termed "the disin- 

 herited," are to be found in our modern communities. 

 This great mass of unfortunates is augmented annually 

 by a numberless host of recruits. 



Prevention the Only Cure. —Those who have 

 once entered upon a career of sensuality, are generally 

 so completely lost to all sense of purity and right that 

 there is little chance for reforming them. They have 

 no principle to which to appeal. The gratification of 

 lust so degrades the soul and benumbs the higher sen- 

 sibilities that a votary of voluptuousness is a most un- 

 promising subject for reformatory efforts. The old 

 adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound 

 of cure is strikingly exemplified in this case. The 

 remedy must be applied before the depths have been 

 reached. It was well said by a celebrated physician to 

 a young man beginning a life of vice, "You are enter- 

 ing upon a career from which you will never turn 

 back." 



Early Training.— The remedy, to be effective, 

 must be applied early, the earlier the better. Lessons 

 on chastity may be given in early infancy. The remedy 

 may be applied even farther back than this; children 

 must be virtuously generated. 



Children should be early taught to reverence virtue, 

 to abhor lust ; and boys should be so trained that they 

 will associate with the name of woman only pure, 

 chaste, and noble thoughts. Few things are more deeply 

 injurious to the character of woman, and more con- 

 ducive to the production of foul imaginations in chil- 

 dren, than the free discussion of such subjects as the 

 latest scandal and like topics. The inquisitive minds 

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