4.  PROPER INFLUENCE.—­Every boy and girl should be carefully trained to look with disgust on everything that is indecent in word or action.  Let them be taught a sense of shame in doing shameful things, and teach them that modesty is honorable, and that immodesty is indecent and dishonorable.  Careful training at the proper age may save many a boy or girl from ruin.

5.  SEXUAL PASSIONS.—­The sexual passions may be a fire from heaven, or a subtle flame from hell.  It depends upon the government and proper control.  The noblest and most unselfish emotions take their arise in the passion of sex.  Its sweet influence, its elevating ties, its vibrations and harmony, all combine to make up the noble and courageous traits of man.

6.  WHEN PASSIONS BEGIN.—­It is thought by some that passions begin at the age of puberty, but the passions may be produced as early as five or ten years.  All depends upon the training or the want of it.  Self-abuse is not an uncommon evil at the age of eight or ten.  A company of bad boys often teach an innocent child that which will develop his ruin.  A boy may feel a sense of pleasure at eight and produce a slight discharge, but not of semen.  Thus it is seen that parents may by neglect do their child the greatest injury.

7.  FALSE MODESTY.—­Let there be no false modesty on part of the parents.  Give the child the necessary advice and instructions as soon as necessary.

8.  THE MAN UNSEXED, by Mutilation or Masturbation.  Eunuchs are proverbial for tenor cruelty and crafty and unsympathizing dispositions.  Their mental powers are feeble and their physical strength is inferior.  They lack courage and physical endurance.  When a child is operated upon before the age of puberty, the voice retains its childish treble, the limbs their soft and rounded outlines, and the neck acquires a feminine fulness; no beard makes its appearance.  In ancient times and up to this time in Oriental nations eunuchs are found.  They are generally slaves who have suffered mutilation at a tender age.  It is a scientific fact that where boys have been taught the practice of masturbation in their early years, say from eight to fourteen years of age, if they survive at all they often have their powers reduced to a similar condition of a eunuch.  They generally however suffer a greater disadvantage.  Their health will be more or less injured.  In the eunuch the power of sexual intercourse is not entirely lost, but of course there is sterility, and little if any satisfaction, and the same thing may be true of the victim of self-abuse.