, 1876-08-12

transmitted to II curses instead of bless
ings
Every child who is the result ul the
mutual love uud desire Ut It's parents
under favorable prenatal Cnnulnuns IN
hrrlts all th better characteristics Ol its
parents in increased strength and then
worse ones in II mildrr and modified
form. Then how Important i, II tnnt
men and woman sluuld list tn, ir utmost
endeavOrs to transmit as lar us IN lhrm
lies their better qunIimns in Increased
strength and rs iilte of ihvir worse ones
MS possible
It H. higher attractions exist between
parents than the mere qualification of
lust, their children ure only miserable
victims of their false lives, hsing out OF
harmony, and out uf lamnce, and inle.
rior creature, VINO ought never To iinve
been bonn. Allow he to say to mothers
III the language of II tOrciDle wri'er---
Medical scientists tell you tnat you
can mark your children, und thousands
OF examples stand before your eyes to
tell you that 1t Is true; hut it is all OF
Ill, OF which they speak AMI testify.
No word is ever heard that marks Of
0ood Us well as i'll are possible. But we
tell you mo'hrrs, that you may mark
your children with all the good you may
desire them to POSSESS Then what u
responsibility rest upon all mothers who
understand these principles and yet lail
TO carry them out.
II anybody has right tn complain md
protest against the tlse and p,rverse
practices und their results in community
they are the victims OF this iasrness
and perversion-t the criminals, the dis
eaSeo, the uniformed, the idlOtic, the i'm
hrcilr, the liar, the tibet, the perjurer,
the swindlrr, the scduccr, the debuurhee,
The hypocrl,c, the consuuiptiye, the scrnf-
ulous, the deaf, the blind, the short
sighted, the born cripple, the bullet
headed, the chestrd, the crooked
legged, the stump looted, the hump.
backed, the shallow minded, the coward,
the crlnger, the tool, the incomplete in
any sense. Their united wall should
muudthrough the world in thunder tones.
" How has this bitter heritage descended
to usl How have we been cursed in
stead of blessed Alas that W. should
ever have been born" They cali pvrti-
nently ask their pr0genitOrs--why did
you make US thus They Gun pertinent
ly ask society. Why should we---the
pool victims OF bitter heritage OF evil,
be tormented in prisons, and bounded
with bitterness and hule aud suffering,
being unfortunate victims, the legitimate
and appropriate effects OF parental and
post natal causes iVr which We cannot
he justly held responsible. We are hut
tue victims OF Ignorance and perversion,
and should be objects OF pity anti com
miseraton instead OF objects ot hate and
vengeance. Now then IN our post natal
state we should be surrounded with the
1T conditions that our Gases demand us
We are cursed with the results Oi unit
prenatal conditions.
In this view Di the case then, which
claim ID the scientific view. our prisons,
in justice to the poor miserable crime
bent victims OF our false social anti sexu-
al practices, should he converted into
asyIunls Tor the morally diseased; tor
CrIme.bent tendencies, are rs much
disease, or abnormal condition, as is
mental insanity; aud tue individual Is
no more Responsible to community in the
one case than IN the other.
This is the charitable, the benevolent,
and the scientiH; view OF the case. The
world will be peopled with better men
aud women, when better men and wo-
men are made; but never before. Bet
ter men and women will be made when
children are generated ant, gestated un'
der higher conditions than they have
been heretofore never before. Here.
lhen is the only foundations for hope OF
reform and Improvements OF the race
And this hoped tor reform can proceed
~, t,st.r th,,n ,ha clouu of ipuulunce