And in Page 19. says this Author, if Children were strictly forbid never to touch their Eyes or Nose, but with their Handkerchiefs, and that only upon very urgent Necessities; if likewise they saw every Body comply with this Custom, and it was counted abominable to touch them with their naked Hands, I can’t see why this might not be as shocking to them when grown up, as now the most guilty Denudations are to well bred People. Now this curious Observation upon the efficacy of Custom being introduc’d in a Paragraph treating of Modesty and Chastity, I appeal to all Persons of any sense or discernment, whether it does not imply, that all Modesty and Virtue is establish’d only by Custom, and whether it does not entirely destroy the notion of an innate Principle. This concludes his first Chapter, and I take it to be very evident, that under a Cloak of Divinity, this Author slily propagates Doctrines fatal to Religion, and highly reflecting on the Reputations of the Virtuous. Chap. II. Page 25. In Women, he says, Self-pollution, if frequently practis’d, relaxes and spoils the retentive Faculty, occasions the _Fluor Albus_, an obnoxious, as well as perplexing illness attending that Sex, which upon account of the Womb, may draw on a whole Legion of Diseases; among other disorders, it makes them look pale, and those who are not of a good Complexion, swarthy and hagged. It frequently is the cause of Hysterick Fits, and sometimes by draining away all the radical Moisture causes Consumptions. But what it more often produces than either, is Barrenness, a misfortune very afflictive to them, because seldom to be redress’d; He seems to make very little difference between the fatal Consequences of Self-pollution in either of the Sexes, when it must be allow’d to be great, on duly considering the situation of the parts; the Male can with abundantly more ease effect a titillation on his external Testicles, than the Female facilitate the least pleasure in her Womb; and as the difficulty is greater, it must deter a constant practice, and consequently not be attended with Symptoms, equally direful. And I doubt not, but this Author would much rather see a Legion of Gallants waiting upon a Female, than one single act of Self-pollution, his Interest being more nearly concern’d in the vending of his Venereal Medicines.