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Excerpt from Onanism, Spermatorrhoea: Porneio-Kalogynomia-Pathology; Boyhood's Perils and Manhood's Curse; An Earnest Appeal to the Young of America
The subjects which embrace the theme of this volume, I am free to confess, are of a highly delicate and peculiar nature. Accordingly, it has been my constant study to clothe my thoughts in language that cannot possibly offend the feelings of the most pure and fastidious of those moral ists and humanitarians, who would save their fellow-beings from terrors more insidious than the serpent's coil - who would snatch them from utter despair and a most revolting degradation of soul and body, even as brands are rescued from the terrible burnings. A true morality a morality that will produce its goodly fruit in generations of virtuous and healthy men and women, does not consist in any attempt to con ceal the sacred laws of Nature, but rather should lie in efforts to in struct the youth of America, in all those noble truths which will tend to the improvement of their physical capacities, and that elevation of soul, without which no one can ever become really virtuous, happy, wise, and proudly great. The great Haller well remarked, that there are no secrets in Physiology. Surely, pristine Nature will never be found ashamed of herself! There is nothing whatever of the prurient and revolting in her simple laws! Indeed, there is a world of philo sophy in the maxim, that it is only the evil who evil think - honi soit qui mal y penee.
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