A Solemn Appeal - James White

through its million channels. The blood being thus
imperfect, the glandular secretions from the blood
are imperfect also. The liver secretes crude and
acrid bile, while the acrid secretions of the kidneys
go scalding along the ureters, inducing stranguary
and every species of disease about the urinary
system.
Now, not to be too tedious, we affirm that any
person of common sense and common reflection,
must see that this general mechanical irritation of
the system must seriously affect the passions
generally, and the venereal passion in particular.
The location of the genital system is right in the
way of this irritation, and necessarily participates
largely in it.
Now, in view of the connection between the
stomach and the passions, who can wonder that
unchastity so much prevails in this land of
gluttony? Who, in view of this, can wonder that
venereal propensities are so early and strongly
developed in children? Weaned of pork, and
brought up to eat all they can of the most exciting
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