Very much depends upon the parents. It lies with them whether they will bring into the world children who will prove a blessing or a curse. In past generations if mothers had informed themselves in regard to the laws of their being, they would have understood that their constitutional strength as well as the tone of their morals and their mental faculties, would in a great measure be represented in their offspring. He should not have committed so great a crime as to bring into being children that reason must teach him would be diseased, because they must receive a miserable legacy from their parents. Licentiousness, disease, and imbecility are transmitted as an inheritance of woe from father to son and from generation to generation, and this brings anguish and suffering into the world.
Thousands are devoid of principle.
These very ones are transmitting to their offspring their own miserable, corrupt passions. Thousands drag out their unprincipled lives, tainting their associates, and perpetuating their debased passions by transmitting them to their children. Parents sin not only against themselves in swallowing drug poisons, but they sin against their children. The vitiated state of the blood, the poison distributed throughout the system, the broken constitution, and various diseases, as the result of drug poisons, are transmitted to their offspring, and left to them a wretched inheritance which is another great cause of the degeneracy of the race. Tobacco and liquor stupefy and defile the user.