A Solemn Appeal - James White

uneducated state. They know absolutely nothing
until they learn something. Now, by education, we
mean the conveying of knowledge to the mind in
any and every possible way. Thus, if the mind be
compared to an unsoiled, white sheet, then the
writing and impressing of ideas thereon we call
education. Well has the poet said:
" 'Tis education forms the common mind;" and
certainly it has much to do in forming the moral
character. By bad education we mean the filling of
the mind with bad ideas. And it is this that we are
now to consider as a cause of the prevalence of
unchastity, as discussed in former chapters.
Paul says that "evil communications corrupt
good manners." No sooner is it said, "A child is
born," than an infant is subjected to "evil
communications," i.e., put in communication with
an evil, sensual world. And that manners are
thereby corrupted, has been often proved while the
child has been yet in the nurse's arms, and this, too,
in a most serious manner. Nurses, by manipulating
infants to cure their crying, have been known to
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