A Solemn Appeal - James White

prevent this vice, and thereby all other forms of
human depravity and woe.
It perpetuates and re-augments itself
"We have seen that excess begets
inflammation, and that inflammation creates desire.
Hence every new indulgence only reaugments the
cravings of this propensity. As an inflammation of
the stomach causes a morbid hankering after food,
the gratification of which still further increases
both the disease and the craving, so excessive
sexual indulgence fevers these organs so that they
call still more loudly for gratification, every new
indulgence of which re-augments the inflammation
and consequently the power of passion, till, like the
letting out of waters, it rises and rushes till life
itself is emptied out thereat, and both body and
mind swept on to remediless destruction and woe!
Indulgence is fuel to these already consuming fires
of perdition. This propensity being to the sexual
apparatus precisely what appetite is to the stomach,
since as eating, so far from satisfying the ravenous
cravings of the dyspeptic, only increases them, by
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