A Solemn Appeal - James White

more doubtful, tedious, and desperate. Any other
fire burning in the system will augment this. Tea,
Coffee, and tobacco, the last two in particular, are
powerful narcotics, and, like opium, though
soothing at first, ultimately only re-inflame, and are
of themselves sufficient to keep up both the disease
and the desire, and the inflammation you would
conquer. They even often induce them, by causing
an irritated, craving state of the nervous system,
which aggravates desire from the first, by
inflaming the nervous system, and of course the
base of the brain. It is a settled physiological fact,
that whatever stimulates the body, thereby
proportionally irritates the base of the brain,
Amativeness in particular, and thus causes lust, as
well as sinful propensity in general. By this means
it is that all intoxicating drinks cause both lust and
depravity. It is their stimulating property which
does this, and whatever stimulates the body,
thereby stimulates the whole base of the brain, in
consequence of that most intimate relation existing
between the two, and therefore excites this passion,
and more, probably, than any other. Now, tea,
coffee, and tobacco, all stimulate, and of course
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