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Rh and previous environments. It would arrive sooner in a man who had awakened his sexual nature to life by abnormal habits, or in a man who had come in contact with one of the opposite sex who had strongly aroused a desire for the marital relation. The sexual appetite is entirely under mental control. It will sleep on for years if the brain would not call it into life. No reasoner along these lines can claim that a normal man, in possession of a strongly sexed nature, can be absolutely continent during his entire life and still acquire all the energy of body and power of mind and intensity of emotions that might have been his had he provided proper legitimate means of following the natural desire of his sexual instinct.

This Biblical maxim is unquestionably true in nearly every case, and when its truth is disregarded in the life of a normal man, he fails to reach his highest degree of attainable physical and mental excellence.

A prominent writer along sexual lines, who strenuously maintains that extreme