A Solemn Appeal - James White

older persons would be pronounced the hight of
immodesty and imposition. But in all this there is
nothing singular, when the educational influences
of society are considered.
Children at school are sometimes educated
more in wickedness by bad associates, than they
are in righteousness by their proper teachers. But
even the education proper of the schools has
sometimes been very unfavorable to chastity. The
mind has, even there, sometimes lost its balance by
constant efforts to strain upon the intellect to the
neglect and expense of the moral sentiments. The
animal propensities left to a constant revel, man
grows sensual and brutish.
We notice ignorance as one of the causes of
unchastity. Ignorance of the extent of the claims of
the law of chastity is a negative cause of sad
mischief. That this law demands a chaste mind, as
well as chaste words and actions, is to many a new
idea. That it forbids solitary vice, is unknown to
very many of the oldest men of our day. And many
who deem solitary vice wrong, see nothing wrong
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