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Rescued," says: "There are specimens of man- 



hood whom we cannot pass on the street without 



admiration ; we involuntarily turn round and look 



at them as they move on with the tread of a giant. X**? its own 



There are kings of the stage, the platform, the 



pulpit, the bar and the senate, who need but to 



speak and stand erect, when all eyes are riveted 



and all hearts are carried away into a sweet cap- 



tivity. These men inherited noble forms and high 



intellectual faculties and have lived in obedience 



to natural law." 



The indications of degeneracy observable in 

 most families in all civilized countries is generally 

 conceded to be due largely to the misdirection and * mc Cause 



dissipation of the sex attribute. A volume the 



size of this might be filled easily with quotations 



from the best authorities of Europe and Amer- 



ica showing the effects of these abuses upon the 



physical, mental and moral lifqpof the race. There Few Know 



are thousands of men and women in every busi-^ 61 * oss " 3 ^ t 



ness vocation and calling in life, who will never 



know the heights to which they might have risen 



nor the soul growth they could have enjoyed had 



they wisely directed their forces to the develop- 



ment of their higher natures. 



The ancient Egyptians taught that the sex prin- 

 ciple was the essence of eternal life, that so long 

 as it was wisely directed, converted into brain and 

 brawn, man enjoyed the blessed privilege of per- Serpent. 

 petual youth. Finally, through the seductive 

 power of some evil spirit, presumably "the old 

 Serpent," man became unchaste. As a result of 

 this sin and the dissipation of the essence of life, 

 men began to grow old and the penalty of death 



