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women, such use never occurs, or is suspended through long 

 years, with no bad effects upon body or mind, but rather with 

 a notable increase of bodily and mental vigour and spiritual 

 life. The assertion, therefore, that such a theory of morals, or 

 of immorality, is natural is the result either of very gross ignor- 

 ance or of great impudence. It is, however, the shameful fact 

 that the book from which I quote professes to have been writ- 

 ten by " a graduate of medicine," and that its principles have 

 been adopted by not a few of the more ignorant or unprincipled 

 members of the medical profession. This work prescribes for 

 most of the diseases of men and women, and most of the evils 

 of society, unrestrained sexual indulgence in both sexes, of all 

 persons, in all conditions, from the age of puberty to the de- 

 cline of the bodily powers. 



Abhorrent as this theory is, it is yet. consistent. Based upon 

 a fallacy, it is yet more reputable than the partial and absurd 

 conventional morality of society, which has one law for men 

 and another for women, and sacrifices thousands of women to 

 provide for the vices of one sex and protect the virtue of the 

 other. 



The Christian law of marriage, as set down in the Holy 

 Scriptures, and defined by the best writers on moral theology, is 

 in harmony with nature in consonance with the higher nature 

 of man. "God hath set the earth in tammes." Adultery is a 

 sin, because it disorders that divine arrangement. Selfish lust 

 is a sin, because it mars it. Fornication is a sin, because it 

 prevents pure marriages. Prostitution is a sin, because it is a 

 sacrifice of women, who might be wives and mothers, to the 

 selfish lusts of men. All useless indulgence is a waste of life, 

 and a kind of suicide. In a pure marriage union men and 

 women unite themselves with God in acts of creative power. 



The progress of humanity depends upon individual develop- 

 ment, and the conditions of generation and gestation. With 

 culture, and a harmonised development, we acquire a higher 



