human
There is one important matter which young men need specially to be taught, viz. that at no time of life is any man ... exempt from the essential duty of curbing animal impulses.... Nothing so paralyzes his force of Will as to be told that some men have from God the gift of continence, and _others have it not_. This doctrine is disastrously prominent in the Anglican marriage service, and is borrowed from St. Paul. But that great and deep-hearted apostle was unmarried and without personal experience. He writes, not as one revealing supernatural communications, _but as imparting his best wisdom_.... A general and just inference is, that a firm self-restraint is necessary and salutary for every man.
gpt
We shan't be worried any more by _him_ now about the righting of social abuses.