A Solemn Appeal - James White

longer the horse proper, but lowered, mutilated,
and the mere shadow of that noble animal.
Compare the bull with the stag. You find results
every way similar; as also by comparing the ram
with the wether. What but the perfection of his
sexual nature gives the bull his force and power of
endurance over the ox, even enabling him to
endure what would kill to oxen? Why can the
former be easily tamed and subdued, but the latter
never? Why a small bull whip a large ox? Why can
the stud perform twice the labor of the gelding?
The perfection of the sexual apparatus alone makes
the difference. This principle applies throughout
the animal kingdom, and is equally true of man. I
once knew a eunuch, rendered so by his own
hands. His voice, effeminate and hackled. His
tones, pining, and whining, and complaining. The
base, strong voice of manhood merged into the
most diminutive manner of speaking imaginable.
His look, sorrowful and hapless. His motions, slow
and feeble. His very existence, a burden. And all
because his sexuality, mental, as well as physical,
was gone. No more the man! A mere thing!
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