A Solemn Appeal - James White

tea, coffee, snuff, tobacco, candies, flesh, etc.,
stimulate the animal propensities and excite
amativeness. The position, however, is undeniable,
that whatever artificially excites the body, thereby
stimulates the animal propensities more than the
intellectual and moral faculties. Tea, coffee, flesh,
spice, etc., are unquestionably highly stimulating,
much more so than cold water, breadstuffs,
vegetables, etc., and therefore kindle the animal
propensities; and as the relation between the body--
and especially the stomach and amativeness--is
more direct and powerful than between the other
parts, the evidence is inevitable that they
proportionably kindle impure desires."
Says Graham, "This [the sexual] propensity is
more or less powerful and imperious, according as
the dietetic and other habits are more or less
correct."
Dr. Woodward, of the Massachusetts State
Lunatic Hospital, expresses the same sentiment.
And, indeed, to this sentiment all dietetic writers
which we have seen, agree. And who does not?
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