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Rh of innocents that results from this most base, this most criminal neglect.

What would you think of a man who would unfeelingly stand by a blind child and see it walk to the brink of a precipice and fall into the depth below? Where is the difference between this inhuman creature and a parent or guardian who will stand by and see his child innocently, blindly falling into the abyss of masturbation, which, though it may not mean death, in every case means that the victim will be maimed mentally, morally and physically for life? Of course he often recovers and becomes a good and useful citizen, but he would have been better and stronger and nobler if not tainted and wrecked by such vile influences.

There is no name too harsh with which one could designate such unfeeling, despicable, prudish parents. The lowest animals of the earth protect their own progeny from destructive influences, but these creatures, dressed in clothes that hide their filthy bodies and depraved brains, allow their