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A Solemn Appeal - James White

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and aptitude for study, become, after being<br />

addicted to this habit [solitary vice], stupid and<br />

incapable of applying themselves. It is evident that<br />

this transitory state which immediately succeeds<br />

the act of venery, becomes continued when this act<br />

is frequently repeated, because time is not allowed<br />

for the effects of it to pass off." But if unchastity--<br />

more especially solitary vice--unfits students for<br />

their work, so does it young farmers, mechanics,<br />

seamstresses, etc., for theirs. It is always and every<br />

where, "evil, only evil, and that continually."<br />

2. By unchastity, especially by solitary vice, the<br />

mind suffers permanent debility. Dr. Woodward<br />

says that loss of memory and power of application<br />

shows the devastating effects of solitary vice upon<br />

the mind. Says Todd in his "Student's Manual,"<br />

"Remember that the fruits of this habit (solitary<br />

vice) are, (1) great debility of the memory, (2)<br />

great prostration of foolish imbecility of the mind."<br />

But while the memory suffers so much from<br />

this vice that it has been marked by all who have<br />

written upon this subject, still it does not suffer<br />

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