A Solemn Appeal - James White

e-inflaming the stomach; so sensual indulgence
first inflames the sexual apparatus, and this reincreases
both disease and desire till the entire
system is drained of energy, and its victim dies.
"This passion, inflames by indulgence,
becomes the horseleech of life and happiness,
crying perpetually, louder and louder, 'Give, give,
Give, GIVE,' but never enough; or the gluttonous
tape-worm, the more it is fed, the more insatiate its
ravages, till, after having devoured all the other
powers and faculties of its miserable victim, it ends
only in a death of all deaths the most horrible. Like
the falling, perhaps, of an icicle on Mount Blanc,
which gathers size and force as it descends, and
now rolls heavily and rapidly down the steep sides
of yonder towering cliff, anon bounds from peak to
peak, sweeping their snowy sides and tearing up
huge trees and rocks in its resistless course, till,
leaping yonder yawning precipice, it plunges into
the deep abyss, dashing to atoms both itself and all
its prey, scattering ruin and death in all its course.
"Nor does this principle govern one form of
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