A Solemn Appeal - James White

articles of food--all they can at regular hours, and
all they can between meals--who is surprised that
they should be early drunk with amative passion?
especially when it is considered, as has been
already remarked, that the acting organs of this
passion are so located as to feel the full force of
these dietetic abuses. Say the author of "Facts and
Important Information," "If children are brought up
in an idle, effeminate, and luxurious manner, the
passions are, like tinder, ignited by the first spark
that falls upon them. If the laws of physiology were
obeyed, and external excitements removed, the
sexual appetite would sleep on, as nature designed,
till the transition from boyhood to manhood,
instead of being forced into action at from five to
ten years of age, as we have often seen."
Says O.S. Fowler, as quoted by the same, "The
diet or food of the young prematurely develops
amativeness. There unquestionably exists a
reciprocal relation between the body and the
animal propensities. We have no room to introduce
the proof of this principle, although it is
indispensable in order to enforce the inference that
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