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80 carries with it no evil effects, states that "the purest, noblest and most unselfish aspirations and purposes derive their strength and being from the sweet influences which have their beginning and their continuance in this power which draws men and women in happy and holy wedlock.

"Where life has been untarnished by the social evil, the sexual impulse marches like a mighty conqueror, arousing and marshaling the mightiest human powers in every department of man's nature. It formulates his purpose, quickens his imagination, and calls into exercise his united powers in the attainment of the world's greatest and grandest achievements in art, in letters, in inventions, in philosophy. It strengthens every faculty, quickens every power."

If you are not a man; if though fully grown, you are still a child and always expect to remain one; you can be continent all through life without suffering to any appreciable extent. But if you are a man in every