A Solemn Appeal - James White

Effects
"Happiness is the one constitutional product of
every function of our being. Yet every function is
capable of painful action. Nor are these two forms
or products of the action of our respective
functions, chance comers and goers, but all are
governed by inflexible law. That function is
necessarily pleasurable which harmonizes with the
primitive constitution, and fulfills the legitimate
designs, of the faculty exercised, and is called
normal or natural. That action of any function is
painful which violates or departs from its normal
primitive institution or end, and is called abnormal,
which means unnatural.
"Of course, these natural axioms apply with
significant emphasis to the element before us. To
fulfill the legitimate ends for which this was
ordained, is to be happy in its exercise; not to fulfill
it, and especially to depart from it, is to suffer in
and by its exercise. Now excessive promiscuous,
and matrimonial, and solitary, indulgence, violate
this function and cause pain. We come now to
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