A Solemn Appeal - James White

vigorous life to offspring; while from impoverished
and impure blood are supplied the elements of
disease; and the child begotten from such blood
must of necessity be born with a constitution
wanting in vitality, weakened in those very parts
upon whose strength and vigor depends the vital
stamina; and he either dies young, or falls early
into the degrading habits he has inherited, and
becomes a victim of the vices of his progenitors."
Self-abuse
"Self-abuse is, probably, the most flagrant
violation of the sexual law; the grossest abuse of
the sexual function; and it is a practice fraught with
the most disastrous consequences to the health,
happiness, and even life of the race. It is an evil
even more damning than any other to which
mankind is subject! Language supplies to words
sufficiently strong to express the horrors which
result from it! And surely if the evil one, in
tempting our first parents, had foreseen that this
practice would have been the result of the passions
he aroused, he must have been more than satisfied
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