A Solemn Appeal - James White

Again, children are ever associating with their
superiors in age, in a series, extending from earliest
childhood, up through youth, to manhood and
womanhood. And this association is so intimate
that generally what one knows all know, and what
one does all are tempted to do. Now, through this
series of associations, every licentious adult
necessarily throws a licentious influence back
down to the borders of the nursery. Thus, while one
instructed child becomes himself an instructor, and
indeed, while every child is both pupil and teacher-
-receiving lessons from the older, and handing
them down to the younger--it is by no means
wonderful that the process of education goes on so
rapidly. And when this education is of a sensual
character, why should it be thought remarkable that
some of the forms of unchastity should be found in
very early childhood. The writer knows a large
family, one of the boys of which (perhaps five
years old) has been repeatedly caught practicing
fornication with his little sister, and also trying to
seduce other little girls. He knows another little
boy who will practice upon little girls, what in
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