A Solemn Appeal - James White

indulgence injures the health, and in a pre-eminent
degree, appears from the following, among its
other effects:
It exhausts the body
"Those at all acquainted, experimentally, with
the nature of this function, need not be told that
few things are equally exhausting. This function
was instituted to transmit the entire mentality and
physiology of parents to offspring; and since the
latter take on the existing conditions of the former,
and these only, it becomes absolutely necessary
that this function should call forth, in a powerful
degree of action, all the mental, all the physical,
functions of parents, as the means of their
transmission to offspring. Now this intense and
simultaneous action of all the functions of our
nature in this indulgence, of course proportionally
exhausts. A hard day's work does not equally
prostrate and fatigue.
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