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CHAPTER
I.
EQUIPMENT
FOR LIFE. |
| This is the grandest period of the world in
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departments of life open to young men of brain and brawn
-- Capacity and power indispensable requisites. -- The
world has always worshiped strength. --
Physical development increasingly cultivated.
-- The weak man goes down in life's fierce struggle.
-- The man without health is handicapped. --
The physical the indispensable foundation. -- Man's
physical powers surpassed by the animals. --
Intellectual and moral natures elevate man above the
animals. -- Highest culture in the development of
our three-fold nature. -- Injury to any one impairs
the other two. -- Moral nature first to suffer from
vice. -- The intellect suffers next.
-- No treatise complete that ignores the moral or
intellectual. -- God made the higher to rule
over the lower. -- The lower nature must be
made subordinate. -- The moral and
intellectual must be made to dominate. -- Dr.
Parker's illustration of the castle. -- Not
the scavengers, but eh man in the citadel to rule.
-- The physicians test of idiocy. -- The
intellectual and the moral natures assigned to their
proper places. -- Enthronement of the moral and
intellectual saves and redeems from solitary and social
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CHAPTER
II.
PERSONAL
PURITY. |
| "Keep thyself pure." -- God has
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| us a strong sexual
nature. -- Sexuality strongly marked in all great
men. -- The mastering of a strong sexuality
develops the best there is in human nature. --
Your struggle no more fierce than that of other men.
-- Thousands slaves to lust. -- Evil thoughts will
enter the purest mind. -- The sin is in
harboring them. -- Pollution practiced in the
mind. -- Novels appeal to the amative and
sexual. -- The best books for the formative
years. -- Works of art. -- Nude
pictures pollute the imagination. -- Purity of
speech. -- A vile story may cling to you through
life. -- Importance of pure blood. --
Wholesome food. -- God made the hog to serve as a
scavenger, and not as food. -- Moral purity
depends upon a pure heart. -- Christ's explanation of
the new birth. -- The spiritual nature reaches out
after God. -- The helpful influence of a pure-minded
woman. -- One standard of virtue for both men and
women. -- Intelligence and virtue safer than
innocence with ignorance. -- Charlatans who
prey upon the vicious and unfortunate. -- No
right-minded man will desire to degrade his body or that
of another. -- The true man will protect and enthrone
the virtue of women. -- Personal purity of
greatest importance. -- Effect of conduct upon
character. -- If you demand purity in your
bride she has an equal right to demand it in you. --
Your conduct will determine the character of your children
that come after you. >>
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