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The fiery ardor of a patriot, the intense ambition of an enthusiast, the inspiration that influences noble deeds of valor, the sacrificial spirit that has time and time again caused the world to ring with praises of some hero, all spring from the same nervous energy which supplies the power of sex, the power of manhood.

Name any man famous in the world of literature, of art, or of science, and in nearly every instance he will be found to possess evidence of strong virility. The nervous energy, so necessary to the enormous labor which brought his success, was the same power that controlled his sexual instinct.

"Sexuality has been strongly marked in all the great men who have risen to eminence in all departments of life; without it man would be mean, selfish, sordid and ungracious to his fellowmen and uncivil to womankind. Were it not for this nature which God has implanted in our being, no man would desire to provide for the support of another individual, or enter into a relation which would