The Devil demonstrated / by a physiologist.

Date:
1878
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Credit: The Devil demonstrated / by a physiologist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    combihed with the flesh, exciting desires in the brain; that some of these desires, if gratified at the expense of others, or even given way to to excess, are inimical to the individual, and therefore evil. But there is hardly a lust or sensual desire gratified that does not leave a stain behind, injurious to the individual or his progeny ; for how remarkably has that law been carried out, laid down in the Commandment—“ For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers on the children unto the third and fourth genera- tion of them that hate me, and show mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.’’ If my subject allowed me—but it does not—I should here show you what I believe hell to be. But I have said enough, at any rate for the present. J. OGDEN AND CO., PRINTERS, I72, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.