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Dr. Charlotte Krause : Her Life & Literature
[ 84 ] As the firmness of a house depends on the firmness of the foundation, just so the firmness of thy life depends on the absolute preservation of thy virility.
[ 85 ) The destruction of chastity in childhood and early youth is not only the breach of a natural law, but it is fighting against Nature itself.
[86] As rotten seeds can never yield a good crop, just so immature virility cannot produce valuable progeny.
[ 87 ] Bear in mind that erotical scenes and words, seen and heard in early childhood, infect the mind of the child with the poison of sensuality.
[ 88 ] He whom a very wicked and ruinous vice has once subdued, must surely perish before long.
[ 89 ) He who, transgressing the limits drawn in the Sacred Writings, indulges in sexual enjoyment in a way discordant with Ethics, does not accomplish one of the aims of human life, but commits a crime.
[ 90 ] The hope of fully gratifying sensual desire by indulging in it for a time, is vain : has one ever calmed down fire by feeding it with melted butter ?
( 91 ) Old age can indeed be a treasury of wisdom and an embodiment of empirical knowledge, provided it has been preceded by a period of strictly observed sexual abstinence.
[92] The procreation of too numerous progeny contributes to the material pauperization of a country.
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