A Solemn Appeal - James White

The sentiment is almost as plain as a geometrical
axiom.
Sedentary habits, unrelieved by sufficient
exercise, increase the liabilities to unchastity.
Exercise is the law of the human constitution. It is
penal in its claims. Sedentariness ever brings
suffering, while virtuous activity is health, strength,
and peace. This is as evident in philosophy as it is
in fact. One might as well look for limpid and pure
cold waters in the stagnant marsh, as for the
freshness and vigor of health, whether of body or
mind, in the victim of unrelieved sedentariness! By
it the circulation is rendered irregular, the fluids of
the system gravitate to a point, while the body
lacks the elasticity necessary to restore the
equilibrium. The lower abdominal region stagnates
and becomes irritable and uneasy, inducing
costiveness, urinary difficulties, etc. But, from this
Sedentariness the genital system is perhaps the
greatest sufferer. Excited in common with the
bowels, etc., almost, and often quite, to
inflammation, its secretions become profuse, and
its peculiar excitement often nearly constant. This
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