Human Physiology. 



purity of women ? How can you get men with strong ama- 

 tive propensities to live like anchorites?" 



How can you get men to do any right thing or refrain from 

 any wrong thing? There are three motives fear of punish- 

 ment, hope of reward, and sense of right, or the principle of 

 duty. The first of these is the lowest, but often the most 

 effectual; the second is higher, and appeals to hope and the 

 love of happiness ; the third, the highest of all motives, pure 

 and unselfish as the love of truth, as in mathematics, acts on 

 noble minds with great power. Men of real conscientiousness 

 love the right for its own sake. They are just from love of 

 justice pure from a sense and love of purity. They love 

 good, and God as the source of all good; and do right, not 

 from fear or hope, but from pure love. 



We must appeal to all motives. Men refrain from theft and 

 other dishonest conduct from the dread of disgrace and punish- 

 ment ; because they see that " honesty is the best policy," and 

 from a sense of justice and regard to the rights of property, or 

 a sense of honour which makes a mean action impossible. By 

 similar motives great numbers are restrained from drunkenness 

 and other vices. Children are to be restrained from impurity 

 by the fear of the terrible consequences of unnatural indulgence 

 in causing disease and pain, by the hope of a pure, healthy, 

 and happy life of love in manhood and womanhood, and by a 

 sense of the beauty and holiness of chastity, and the sacredness 

 of the functions by which the race is re-created and preserved. 

 The religious feeling that our bodies are to be kept pure, healthy, 

 and holy in every way as "the temples of the Holy Ghost," 

 cannot be too early instilled into the infant mind, which is open 

 to the highest sentiments of veneration, devotion, and heroic 

 religion. In youth there are the same motives. Indulgence in 

 solitary vice is self-destructive of all that youth most values a 

 profanation of his own body. Seduction is a desecration of what 

 he should hold in the most tender reverence. To the young man 



