GOOD.--The desire of good for its own sake--this is Love.
The desire of good for bodily pleasure--this is Lust. Man is a moral being,
and as such should always act in the animal sphere according to the
spiritual law. Hence, to break the law of the highest creative action for
the mere gratification of animal instinct is to perform the act of sin and
to produce the corruption of nature.

17. CAUSE OF PROSTITUTION.--Dr. Dio Lewis says: "Occasionally we meet a
diseased female with excessive animal passion, but such a case is very
rare. The average woman has so little sexual desire that if licentiousness
depended upon her, uninfluenced by her desire to please man or secure his
support, there would be very little sexual excess. Man is strong--he has
all the money and all the facilities for business and pleasure; and woman
is not long in learning the road to his favor. Many prostitutes who take no
pleasure in their unclean intimacies not only endure a disgusting life for
the favor and means thus gained, but affect intense passion in their sexual
contacts because they have learned that such exhibitions gratify men."

18. HUSBAND'S BRUTALITY.--Husbands! It is your licentiousness that drives
your wives to a deed so abhorrent to their every wifely, womanly and
maternal instinct--a deed which ruins the health of their bodies,
prostitutes their souls, and makes marriage, maternity and womanhood itself
degrading and loathsome. No terms can sufficiently characterize the
cruelty, meanness and disgusting selfishness of your conduct when you
impose on them a maternity so detested as to drive them to the desperation
of killing their unborn children and often themselves.

19. WHAT DRUNKARDS BEQUEATH TO THEIR OFFSPRING.--Organic imperfections
unfit the brain for sane action, and habit confirms the insane condition;
the man's brain has become unsound. Then comes in the law of hereditary
descent, by which the brain of a man's children is fashioned after his
own--not as it was originally, but as it has become, in consequence of
frequent functional disturbance. Hence, of all appetites, the inherited
appetite for drunkenness is {413} the most direful. Natural laws
contemplate no exceptions, and sins against them are never pardoned.

20. THE REPORTS OF HOSPITALS.--The reports of hospitals for lunatics almost
universally assign intemperance as one of the causes which predispose a
man's offspring to insanity. This is even more strikingly manifest