The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-15 00:00:00

CELIBACY.—Singleness is not always the con..
sequence of disinclination, disappointed affection, or a difTl.
cully in meeting with a fit helpmate. Thousands of the unmarried
would with joy embrace the sacred conditions of Matrimony, did
they feel themselves equal to its obligations; and the chequered
page of life reveals innumerable instanc• s where, under that
Slighting consciousness, man has permitted the most ardent affec-
tion to consume him to the grave, rather than consign its object to
that life of unmitigable anguish and fettered solitariness Into which
his affianced would be plunged if lie married. Some are, however,
wilful enough to gain the affectiOns of the other sex under these
circumstances; and, though not so vtllanous as to proceed to the
altar, will make such excuses for procrastination as contribute to his
selfish desire of exclusively enjoying her society, by precluding her
fr,m accepting other offers. There is scarcely a street where this
history is not enacted ; and yet with the exercise of common
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disease ; and, lastly, men are prevented from marrying by the effects
of disease—which, when 111-cured, leaves traces that forbid all line
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ON IPlllulTstSralCte.disLbyD2l6S QAUna.kt°LmlCicAaTl CIO°
CITY, iND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
sloz GENERATIVEedEngra ISNteceALFA_
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
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human
;oars high above
?reaVst.EMiosre leadingexalted than mere passion, it
e.,.rronger than avarice,
and business, feeling of the
man is exempt from
eLvery other impulse of nature, and is not only
, pleasure, philo-
leatrl the enthralling
soens in intensity
but more engrossing even than ambitio,...
scwonas7e ;neglectedsi"l
its influence, or cart avoid its.,
ossaot,ti, this
sophy, and divinity itself h,
,itwhicl:.. unlike most things,
receives the sacred consummation pwoi Nt,,hTrt
ionf,
untilO \'
When union does not take place, however, this oafs marriage.
this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes
it before breiag(hilj.
Pfe(7,llT:'in the heart, which now darkens, as
Cued, all (hints upon earth. How is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind?
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has beets
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of important
ends. The wretched condition of such a tv.lng mast subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable ! Loving and beloved, he entails the
most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and apon
himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of
natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both a life of
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SELF-PRESERVATION,
illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observa-
tions on the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting from
solitary habits, excesses, o:• infection.
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical society, &c.
This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and
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ment of these diseases.

REVITW OF THD WORK.
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Conscience ; and of these the result is ever o'- apeotatOr I)tit
mortal who meets with a timely men.
~..asteonit-, it:lir ho
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into which such scenes must -' .., to Ilat'et±. Mtn il'orn t e.gulf
such a monitor is to bp ' ~mturt ‘ll4l-1 lln the bObk berore Ili
erring, without 1.- _ .011.1; Zliieliiated 'to VfAin AO jß'StruSt the
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ready tut,
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of r -
..asterly pretitiOn and I,lWila,4i the profoundest 40115 Of
philosophy ti 0 ,oyb.f4 ;km tile loftiest precepts of morality. It is a
' prodtlictlion rttlallated to con.er a vital benefit, physically and morally,
'0 11t ail who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and
propriety. A father may trust it in the hands of his boy. By un-
taught innocence the hook is not, of course, needed ; but wherever
laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing, in these
pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a hnmil' blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
—United Kingdom Magazine.
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