A Solemn Appeal - James White

So that, every way, the conclusion forces itself
upon us, that comparatively very little of the
mischief of solitary vice is known. Indeed, very
little of it is known to the victims themselves;
much less, then, to the community. This will
appear still more evident in the fact that it is only
quite recently that many discoveries calculated to
excite any general alarm and inquiry have been
made--and also in the fact that the more general
effects of the vice, being only a sort of general
debility, are not among the ignorant masses
calculated to excite much careful inquiry into their
causes. Upon the whole, it must plainly appear that
what are known of the consequences of solitary
vice, can, at most, be regarded only as indices to
what actually exist.
This evil is confined to neither sex. Its ravages,
though not as extensive, are, however, most
dreadful among the females. We have before us
numerous published cases of the horrible nature,
taken from the history of both sexes.
The foregoing are among the causes which at
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