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44 unmistakable indications of coming imbecility, the statement is both preposterous and absurd. Such a statement is wholly unreliable and misleading. After years of acquaintance with men in all periods of life, and after having spoken freely with many upon the subject, the writer is frank to confess that he has yet to meet the first male of the human race, who has passed the period of puberty and who has attained to early manhood, who has not at some time had such emissions, and from whom an undue accumulation of sexual fluid has not passed during hours of sleep in a dream of a more or less amorous nature.

We have also carefully examined medical authorities upon this subject, and find that all reliable writers are agreed that such loss of semen, if not occurring at too frequent intervals, is not only quite general, but seemingly natural." — Sylvanus Stall, D. D.

This idea that these losses are always injurious, and that they never occur under any circumstances when enjoying prefectly