A Solemn Appeal - James White

debilitate the body, and by consequence, as we
have above seen, the mind also. But to be a little
more particular:
1. By unchastity, especially by solitary vice, the
mind suffers lassitude. By lassitude, we mean that
dozy indifference which the victims of venereal
excesses often feel.
To be sure, sensation and conscious energy
may be, for a time and at intervals, exalted, under
the influence of this unnaturalness. But unless they
be exalted to the point of insanity, the system soon
relapses, and sinks into the condition above
mentioned. This condition is the perfectly-natural
result of the exhaustion of the nervous energy upon
the venereal passion. It is indicted by a general
feeling of irresolution, and this more especially in
the morning. Students, as many of them as are
vicious, are the sorest sufferers from it. And, in
general, persons of sedentary habits are most liable
to it, although no victim of solitary vice is safe
from it. Says Dr. Deslandes, "Young men who
previously showed considerable vivacity of mind
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