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Some men—usually for the lack of physical training—never grow to complete manhood. They practically remain children all their lives—children in mind and in body: weak and wavering in their desires and in their mental and physical individuality. Can we say that one's brain is mature merely because it has existed a certain number of years? Is it not rather the training which the brain receives that speeds it on to maturity? It is the same with the body, which must be trained, strengthened, developed, or it will remain childish in its immaturity, and will lack to an extreme degree that hardy vigor which could easily have been acquired through proper physical culture.

Unquestionably, where a boy grows into manhood without the contaminating thoughts and deteriorating physical and mental influences that result from masturbation, he can go through life and remain continent without suffering any particularly noticeable inconvenience, and if mentally