George Lansing Raymond On Chastity

George Lansing Raymond, Ethics and Natural Law

(New York: The Knickerbocker Press; 1920), p. 214.

‘In the degree in which higher desire the desire for that which is in accordance with a rational regard for the best interests of the individual and of the community is uppermost in one’s nature, chastity promotes continence and prevents intercourse not legalized by marriage.

If a man were an animal only, and not a human being, he would not feel obligated to manifest these traits.

They are all developments of a desire to do nothing unworthy of one possessing a mind by which he ought to be controlled.

It is largely the consciousness of possessing this mind, and of not having used it as he should, that accounts for the sense of shame that almost invariably comes to those who have not been able to conceal from the general public the fact of their own unchastity.’

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