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A Solemn Appeal - James White

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Chapter 4<br />

The Marriage Relation<br />

Men and women, by indulging the appetite<br />

with rich and highly-seasoned foods, especially<br />

flesh-meats and rich gravies, and by using<br />

stimulating drinks, as tea and coffee, create<br />

unnatural appetites. The system becomes fevered,<br />

the organs of digestion become injured, the mental<br />

faculties are be clouded, while the baser passions<br />

are excited, and predominate. The appetite<br />

becomes more unnatural, and more difficult of<br />

restraint. The circulation is not equalized, and the<br />

blood becomes impure. The whole system is<br />

deranged, and the demands of appetite become<br />

more unreasonable, craving exciting, hurtful<br />

things, until it is thoroughly depraved.<br />

With many, the appetite clamors for the<br />

disgusting weed, tobacco, and ale, made powerful<br />

by poisonous, health-destroying mixtures. Many do<br />

not stop even here. Their debased appetites call for<br />

stronger drink, which has a still more benumbing<br />

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