ich have issued from the medical press contain much that
is calculated to excite, rather than to repress, the propensity; and
the advice sometimes given by practitioners to their patients is
immoral as well as unscientific."

EVERY MAN AND EVERY WOMAN,

living simply, purely, and temperately--respecting the laws of health
in regard to air, food, dress, exercise, and habits of life--not only
can live in the continence of a pure virgin life when single, and in
the chastity which should be observed by all married partners, but be
stronger, happier, and in every way better by so living.

Chastity is the conservation of life, and the consecration of its
forces to the highest use. Sensuality is the waste of life, and the
degradation of its forces to pleasure divorced from use. Chastity is
life; sensuality is death.

FROM THE AGE OF PUBERTY TO MARRIAGE

the law, is the same for both sexes--full employment of mind and body,
temperance, purity, and perfect chastity in thought, word, and deed.
The law is one of perfect equality. There is no license for the male
which is not equally the right of the female. There is no
physiological ground for any indulgence in one case more than in the
other. No man has any more right to require or expect purity in the
woman who is to be his wife than the woman has to require and expect
purity in her husband. It is a simple matter of justice and right. No
man can enter upon an amative relation with a woman, except in
marriage, without manifest injustice to his future wife, unless he
allow her the same liberty; and also without a great wrong to the
woman, and to her possible husband.

It is contended that the sins of men against chastity are more venial
than those of women, because of the liability of women to have
children. But men are also liable to be the fathers of children, who
are deeply wronged by the absence of paternal care. The child has its
rights, and every child has the right to be born in honest,
respectable wedlock, of parents able to give it a sound constitution
and the nurture and education it requires. The child who lacks these
conditions is grievously wronged by both father and mother.

THE LAW OF MARRIAGE

is, that a mature man and woman, with sound health, pure lives, and a
reasonable prospect of comfortably educating a family, when drawn to
each other by the attraction of mutual love, should chas