ye f We a Declining Race? 



who suffer from spermatorrhoea either are, or 

 have been masturbators. Either they have 

 abandoned themselves to this vice alone, or they 

 have indulged in it after giving way to ordinary 

 sexual excess." (Curschman : " Ziemsson's," 

 Vol. VIII.) 



General Failure. " L'abus des plaisirs sexuels, 

 dit Burdach, entraine non pas tant par la perte du 

 sperme que par 1'ebranlement du systeme nerveux, 

 1'atonic des organes genitaux, le flux de semence, 

 la paralysie, la faiblesse de la vessie, 1'atrophie 

 de la moelle epiniere, le tremblement, les con- 

 vulsions, 1'hebetement des traits du visage, la 

 surdite, les vertiges, 1'affaiblissement de la 

 memoire, 1'impossibilite de suivre les travaux 

 qui demandent de la contention d'esprit, la perte 

 des sentiments purement humains, 1'idiotisme et 

 la demence." 



Now, I think I have quoted a sufficient number 

 of authorities to show that almost all diseases 

 are traceable, directly or indirectly, to sexual 

 abuses. By abuses I mean not only the practice 

 of masturbation, but also of ordinary sexual inter- 

 course, so far as it is practised for mere pleasure ; 

 the pathological effect on the system is identical 

 in each case, the only difference being that the 

 first is a solitary process, which can be indulged 

 in at any time, and is therefore indulged in more 

 frequently, and it is also practised at a much 

 earlier age, long before ordinary intercourse is 

 possible. 



Nature is no respecter of legal documents, and 

 the fact of persons getting married by law does 

 not absolve them from the penalties inflicted by 



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