The Elements of Moral Science Theoretical And Practical

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They may misapply the resources of art, and the attractions of manners, and the amenities of liter- ature, and the excitements of song, to palliate, to stimulate, and to conceal the grossness and cruelty of animal indulgences. The higher the culture, the more various the resources, and the more refined the tastes, of the man who yields himself deliber- §171. ] THE BODILY LIFE. 335 ately or habitually to intemperate excess or sexual vice, the more defiuite is his own sense of the loss of self-co...ntrol and consequently of self-respect ; and, the more exasperated is his anger against his fellow-men who reprove or repel him, the more complete is his devotion to the appetite for which he has parted with so much that he may well desire to retain. Sexual vice takes many forms, from that of the weakling youth to that of the cultivated and accomplished seducer, who endeavors to reconcile the refinements vice and of aesthetic sensibility with a devotion to lust, to gallantry, or seduction. Should we say nothing here of the murderous quality of seduction when it is considered as an offence against a confiding victim, we should only emphasize the quality of self-murder which belongs to it as a sin against one's self.

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