, 1876-08-12

should reign; the order Oi nature IS r..
vcrscd, and man has usurprd the natur.
NJ svvrr,ignty of women in the domain
III sex, and enforced lust and unwilling
maternity is the rule; in the language of
u talented author.
" 1t is during the period Of CESSATION
that the future chatacter of children is
formed. Mothers make their children
just what they are, sare what they dc.
rive from the father by he law OF herrd
ity. The world knows little about the
influence that mothers have upon their un-
bora children. Thousands 0i cases might
be- cltcd to prove that mothers not only
mskr their children VIII they are phys.
icnlly, hut, in more potent sense, ment-
ally and morally. Every person who ever
murdered, stole, he'd, cheated, deiraudcd,
"r committed perjury, WAS born with
the capacity to do the deed. The rras
IN that one docs and another doe, not,
do any of these cs under the same cir
Gums ances, is because the latter md not
inherit the capacity to be reused TO the
deed by the circumstances that had the
rtlcct upon the tormer."
AS an illustration OF the workings OF
The law OF hercdity will give few cas-
~. The first is that of nau who from
"is very birth had the habit OF making
queer and repulsiyc grimaces OF the lace,
and contortiOrs OF the face and body;
when able to walk and talk he staggered
ike drunken man, and in his talk inii.
taied the inarticulate speech Of one, and
always kept up those queer grimaces OF
the face. His mother says: Towards
the close Of tue gestatve period Of that
child, 1 was suddenly surprised and
shocked by the appearance before mt OF
n drunken man who acted just as the
child does. The shock 80 effected me us
10 transmit to my unborn babe u nervous
affection which caused him almost con-
s,antly to initiate TINT drunken man
while awake" Another case related to
me by tue father OF the child, occurred
IN Oregon. The mother, during the pc
riud OF CESSATION, spent considerable of
her time in taking care of sick neigh
bor woman, who was very cross, pevish
and Ill natured. The result upon her child
when born was, that in character and
disposition it was complete type of the
character of that sick woman as exhibit.
I'd in sickness, while the mother wis
tending her; and which was entirely un
like either ito father, mother, brother or
sister. In this case the emotional char.
meter as exhibited BY this sick woman,
was transmitted to the unborn babe Oi
the other woman, through action upon
the nervous System of the latter through
sympathy.
Another case that occurred ia the same
neighborhood was this: A man had
his arm bsdly torn and lacerated in
threshing machine, and with the arm
',are aud covered with blood he went to
the nearest house tn have il dressed, and
happened t" go into the presence OF a
pregnant woman, who was shocked at
the sight, and the result to her uoborn
labe was--that it was marked with
blood red stripe extending down One
-itle Of the face, neck and body.
There was u,an Ia the State of Verss
mont, though able to talk freely with
every body else, was never able to speak
to his father at all till after he was thirty
years OF age. and theu only when his
back was turned towards him. Two
months befoie No was born his father
came into the ho Sc behind his mother,
and addressed her In very severe and op
probious language II very much excit-
I'd her resistance aud looking round she
made an attempt to reply, hut was liter
ally eholed with indignation The impree-
4ion which her mind made upon the
nervous system ot that tGtus, demon.
s,rates tho truth of the doctrine am here
attempting to oinculcats. Whatever oc.
cupies the mind Of the mother with a
rertain degree of intensity at particular
lines during tho period OF CESSATION, will
C sure to make 10 impression upon the
,hysical, mental and moral systems of
The child.