A Solemn Appeal - James White

God, mankind.
"The cities of the dead outnumber far the cities
of the living; emblems of mourning and sadness
are met on every hand; death is constantly claiming
its victims amongst the young and the middle-aged
as well as the old. Babes die by thousands before
they are born, and one fifth of those born alive are
laid away in their tiny graves before they reach the
age of seven." Abuse of the sexual function a
prime cause of derangements
"From the blood the elements of a new life are
formed; and it has been ascertained that the
material--called semen--which goes to generate a
new being, is so refined, so intensified in its
vitalizing power, that 'one ounce of it is equal to
forty ounces of blood in any other part of the body.'
Then, too, the nervous force expended is amazing;
for 'in the sexual organs we find a union of the
three great systems of nerves--the vegetative, or
nerves of organic life; the emotional, or nerves of
animal life; and the intellectual, or nerves of
spiritual life; for the last two sacral nerves, which
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