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lornicatiott. ]-97
.,.,ho infest populous cities; the whole of which is a
general consequence of fornication, and to the increase
and conrinuance of which, every act and instance of
fornication contributes.
3. Fornication produces habits of ungovernable
lewdness, which introduce the more aggravated
crimes of seduction, aduitery, violation, &c.· Like­
\\:ise, however it be accounted for, the criminal commerce
of the sexes corrupts and depraves ~he mind
and moral character more than any single s,'lecies ot
vice whatsoever. That l'eady peI'cpption of guilt,
that prompr and decisive resolution against it j \vhich
constitutes a virtuous character, is seldom found in
persons addicted to the:;e indulgences. They prepart:
an easy ~dmi~sion for every sin that seeks it ; are, in
lew life, usually the first stage in men's progre~ to
the most desperate \rillanies; and, in high life, to that
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