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34 the weakness brought about through sexual excess.

"In nature, sexual intercourse has but one aim, and that is procreation. This act, which is one of the greatest mysteries of life, and should be reverenced as a sacrament, should be performed only for the purpose of securing offspring. Every other such act, or sexual excitement, constitutes vice, undermines health, and is a sacrilege against Nature's laws ordained by God Almighty. For the purpose of procreation, one act may suffice; then, while the fruit is developing, and also during the time of nursing, the mother should abstain. This state of affairs we find with all wild animals."—''A. F. Reinhold, Ph. D., M. D.''

Excess in this way seems to destroy the energies, takes away the ambition. Some physiologists claim that one drop of the semen is equal to sixty drops of blood. Although it would unquestionably be difficult to determine accurately the relative