Solar Biology

PRELIMINARY PHILOSOPHY. 15
licentious in their habits, and in delineating character,
the most important thing to be noticed is their habit
sexually ; for if persons are inclined to be indulgent,
and waste their life forces and elements, so will they
lack mental and physical power, and in proportion
as they conserve these potencies and life fluids, will they
have mental and physical ability. Many times, however,
persons of unrestrained habits draw their physical
power from others ; but, while they may thus be possessed
of physical strength, they will lack mental
clearness, accuracy, and the disposition
pursuits.
There is no such thing as a lazy person in
to intellectual
the usual
sense of the word ;
life is activity itself, and, according
to the quantity of life, will be the degree of the disposition
to act. If the life is concentrated in the sexual
function, and used up or wasted there, then the activity
will be nearly all in that direction, and there will be
lack of power in other channels, in proportion as it is
overactive there. Young persons are often thought
to be lazy, when the activity is centred in that function.
Children addicted to self-abuse, being abnormally
active in that respect, are indolent in other directions,
and this waste of vital force produces an excessive desire
to sleep. Sleep
is the condition most conducive to
recuperation and generation of new life in the body
In early morning there is the greatest danger, with
children, of acquiring the habit of self-abuse ;
therefore
parents should have their children form the habit of
rising as soon as they waken in the morning. The
waste of this force in childhood is one of the main
causes of the dwarfed condition of the many persons
who are physically and mentally undeveloped.