, 1876-08-12

hr expected tn he visrious.
Nlscious and dirtctic habits in par
cnts will ~ surely transmit viCinted con,
sttutuns 10 their children rs effect fol
lows cause. The tendency to drunken
ness and nurCotizing are both transmits.
sihlr
And 0s n sound physical. mental and
moral organization depends on IT virtu
ousIy produced body, it follows that 80
far as IN individual falls short of possess
ing sound mental and neral organiza
tion, so far he falls short of being able to
claim mn unhroken line of truly reputable
parrntagr.
If mothers and fathers understood and
would net in accordance with this most
important hw, they might become the
artisans instead OF the hotchers of the
human race they could bless the world
with beautiful specimens of physical,
mental and moral men and women, in
stead Of the botched and slop work
which so many of US at present represent.
Here is where most of our teachers, or
thinkers rather, of the present day mike
n great failure. They tell us thnt educa-
ton will make and save the man, after
he is horn; that iG will matter little in
what mental or moral deformiy the
child may come into the world, eaucati0a
will remedy il all it will make strong
NIL mental weaknesses, will straighten all
moral crookedness and squirting; in fact
it will finish up and make good job
out of an abortion OF nature.
We are, all OF US, nhortions in so far
ns we fall short of sound body, mind,
or moral organism, hya rightful inher.
itance. Very few of ms ought ever to
have been born under the prenatura con.
ditions in which we were born. Onr
own physical, mental and moral inferior.
ity is sufficient evidence OF the truth OF
this proposition.
The emotional, passioral, moral, men.
tai and physical prepense and power in
the child ut birth, depend on the condi-
tion and exercise of those faculties in
the mother during the period of grstt.
tinn, save what il derives from the tnther
by the law OF heredity. And in one
sense the education of a child may he
snid to commence even before concep
ton; for if that does NOT take place
under proper and 6t conditions, there is
lost to that child all the advantages tn
he derived from proper and fit condi-
tions of conception, every affection of
health, every painful or plrasurablp
emotion, every violent or proper passion
every proper or improper mental exer
else, every moral or immoral exercise,
every shock or improper impulse, all
proper or improper wishes, desires Ur
longln9s, all go to impress and give
character and direction to the flcuti-s
inherent in the unconscious embryo
Thus is the mother constantly educating
in u physical, mental, moral, pussiona,
and emotional sense her yet unborn child.
Or IN Other words she is building up
and unalterably fixing the character, ten
dcncies and possibilities of her unborn
| chill. And 50 lar as shu does this work
well or Ill, does she fix the standard Of
her chllds future character. attainmrnts
or possibilities above which it cannot pOs.
slbIy rise any more than stream can
risi above its tountain.
How important then is it. that every
child should be the result OF the mutual
love attraction and desire of its parents
under the highest possible conditions OF
health, and surroundings of the mother.
During the period of gestation she .houl
be cheerful, happy and joyous, with
beautiful and attractive surroundings.
The Lacedemonians we've accustomed to
place beautiful statues in the rooms with
their pregnant wives, and the same law
governs animals, if we may credit the
Bible account OF Jacob.
Children inherit the tendency to un
natural food aud drinks--to unnatural
and deleterious stimuIsnts which besoi,
degrade, yiciate und deterioratc the race.