c agencies, have upon digestion, circulation,
and respiration; and we find that they exert a not less potent influence
upon the health of the generative organs. Excessive stimulation excites
the sexual passions. For this reason, children should not be
immoderately indulged in highly seasoned foods. Those persons who have
great muscular vigor are endowed with violent passions, and unless
restrained by moral considerations, are very likely to be overcome by
their animal propensities.

_Alcoholic stimulants_ have a debasing influence upon the whole system,
and especially upon the sexual organs; they excite the animal and debase
the moral nature; they exhaust the vitality, and, after the excitement,
which they temporarily induce, has passed away, the body is left in a
prostrated condition.

PHYSICAL LABOR MODIFIES THE PASSIONS. Labor consumes the surplus
vitality which a person may possess, and no better protective can be
found against the gratification of the passions, unless it be high moral
training, than daily toil extended to such a degree as to produce
fatigue. Labor determines the blood to the surface and to other parts of
the body, and prevents excitement and congestion of the sexual centers.
If, by education or association, the passions of children be excited,
they will be increased. If, on the contrary, they be taught to avoid
these social or solitary evils, they will be abated. Let them be
educated to work and the intellectual faculties will assert their sway,
the moral powers will be strengthened, and the body better developed,
for purity of mind is the result of the perfect development of man.

INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE. Individuals possess distinguishing peculiarities
characteristic of the nation to which they belong. Climate exerts a
powerful influence upon mankind. In tropical regions the inhabitants are
enervated, effeminate, and sensual. The rich live in luxury and ease,
vice is unrestrained and license unbridled. When the animal propensities
are allowed to predominate, the mental faculties are kept in subjection.
Hence races that inhabit those latitudes rarely produce scholars or
philosophers. A warm climate hastens the development of the reproductive
organs. Men and women become mature at a much earlier age in those
regions, than in countries where the temperature is lower. In like
manner there is a tendency to premature enfeeblement, for the earlier
the system matures, the sooner it deteriorates.

MAN I