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Excerpt from Hints for the Young in Relation to the Health of Body and Mind
It is a vice which excites, to the greatest activity, the strongest and most incontrollable propensities of animal nature; and these are rendered more active by indulgence, while the power of resistance and restraint is lessened by it in a tenfold degree. The moral sensibility becomes so blunted as to retain no ascendency in the character, to control and regulate the conduct. Under such circumstances, the best resolutions to reform, and the firmest determi nation to abandon the habit, fail of accomplish ment. In spite of himself, the victim sinks deeper and deeper in pollution, till he is over whelmed at last in irretrievable ruin and dis grace.
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