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Man, the king of all animals, still grovels in the dust and mire of ignorance, and even his own boasted knowledge often turns and bites, and stings and enervates, and at times even destroys him. Knowledge of evil without the antidote of knowing its vile and destructive influence, is a condition where knowledge becomes a curse. Knowledge of the momentary pleasures which can be obtained by sexual indulgences, without the knowledge of their terrible deleterious influence under certain unnatural conditions, is one of the greatest causes of physical weakness, and the pain, unhappiness and disease that accompany this abnormal condition.

The sexual power of a man indicates with marvelous accuracy his general physical and mental condition. It is the barometer of the physical and nervous organism.