rdered amativeness, hereditary from a diseased
and lustful parentage, they must be perverted and corrupted before
they can act immodestly and impurely.

WOMEN ARE PROTECTED

by a strong public sentiment around them. They have the dread of
disgrace. For them to yield to their own affectionate desires, or the
solicitations of a lover, is a fall, is ruin. They have the hope of a
loving husband, a happy home, and the respect of society. And in woman
passion has commonly less force, and the sentiment of modesty and
purity more power. Women are weak in yielding to solicitation, giving

EVERYTHING FOR LOVE;

but we see how protective of female virtue are these motives to vast
numbers.

Men can perfectly restrain the sensual part of their natures whenever
they have a strong motive to do so. A child would be simply mad who
was not controlled by the presence of father, mother, and persons he
respected or feared. Young men have no difficulty when they are in the
company of pure women. They are in no trouble when their lives are
full of mental and muscular activity, and particularly if their habits
of eating simply and temperately, of refraining from heating and
exciting stimulants, and sleeping in cold beds and fresh air, are such
as health requires. There needs but the strong will to live purely in
any one, and at any age, the will that comes from the high motives of
conscience and religion, or all motives combined. A strong sense of
what is just and right controls even the motions of our bodies and
actions which seem to be involuntary. A man who has a vivid sense of
the right and duty of refraining from sensuality, and preserving his
own purity of mind and body and the chastity of all women, will do so
even in his dreams. When the will is right, all things are soon
brought into its subjection. The mind controls the organization, and
the life forces are directed into other channels. A strong man, full
of

LIFE AND LOVE,

can safely hold a virgin in his arms, and respect her virginity, if he
have but the motives and the will to do so. If he be pure in his
will, how can he commit impurity? If a woman be sacred in his eyes,
how can he profane her? It is not that men have not the power of
restraint, the power to do right; it is that they lack the motive.
They have lost the sense of right; they are even impelled to do wrong
by the pressure of