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The causes are various, but unquestionably the great primary causes are ignorance and the prudishness which it engenders.

Ignorance of the facts in reference to the sexual instinct that should be as plain as the noonday sun to every human being, this, together with lack of knowledge of the great laws of health, so necessary in order to build vigor and symmetry of body, have resulted in filling civilized countries with a host of pigmy men. Immediately after birth they come in contact with abnormal influences. They are encumbered with clothing that discourages rather than encourages muscular movements, they are compelled to breathe foul air when the weather is cold; they are always overfed; the bottle often does duty for the female breast, and they come in contact with all sorts of conditions that tend to