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adjacency of disease or death
Of the issues & misery which exist in the world
the irregularities of the sexual passions are among the most
pregnant. Guerry in his Statistique Morale de la France
states that one thirty third of the attacks on the lives
of men take place in houses of ill fame – one fourteenth
of the cases of incendiarism – a great part of the duels –
a large proportion of cases of insanity – all the cases of
infanticide – & almost all the instances of suicide among
young women grow out of sexual immorality. The weakened
of the obligation moral lives & public opinion in this part of the field of moral conduct demands
prompt consideration – & M. Guerry most properly draws
the conclusion that whatever opinions we may form of the innocence
or guilt of the aberrations from chastity – those consequences
have been men have but too much neglected to train their physical consequences –
"for" he continues "when deeply examined views of true utility
"& moral duty will ever to inseparable & indentical" p.36
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