The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-23
SCIENTIFIC WEDLOCK.
TIE PHYSICAL AND MORAL EFFECTS
OF UNWISE MARRIAGES.
Mating Among savaces-A Law iu Brazil.
Deterioration of Royal Blood In Eu-
rope -Gcrmany's Peril Physical Culture
should DC Looked After-Rcsults.


study the people ana races Of the earth a
their methods Of contracting marriages in
fluence their deterioration or advancement
Among the Esquimaux, who rank very low
on the scale Of hupnnity, marriage is a ner,
matter Of convenience The sentiment OF
love seems almost unknown The woman
simply needs to be feel, and the man REQUIRE.
some one TO make his clothes and 10 take care
Of his hut while he is hulting or fishing The
contract Is made waen the parties are in IN
fancy The boys father selects little Girl
for his sons wife, and pays her father for her
perhaps pair Of snow shoes ora dozen
percussion caps. The two are then consid-
cred engaged, and when they become old
enough live together 1t is at once evident
that no attention can here b. given 70 those
points which should govern "a WIS., aud scien-
nfc marriage The prospective bride and
groom are too young, al the tim, when they
are atiianced, FOR any one 10 know into what
SOFT Of representatives of their race they viii
deveiop Perhaps the question of cheapnes.
is the main one Their method II contract.
ins marriage alliance goes far 10 show Why
1t Is the Esquimaux have remained 50 long
at their present los level
In various parts OF South America there is
ttlA NAAfiAf ltNIiA ~ NAANF inc NlIfI'Ir OF llUl.
cious alliances There exists there almost
every variety Of cross between the native In
dlans, The resident and indolent Spanaris,
and other more active. vigorous and intel
lectual Europeans The alliances are hardly
formed with a view 10 the laws Of scientific
parcniase, though they clearly show tue
working Of these when they have been OBJ
served, as well ms the opposite effect when
they have been disregardod There Is re-
maj kabc and seliimpoSe1 family law which
popularity prevails, We are told, throughout
brazil IN relation 10 matumony. 1t Is recog-
nlzed among all the higher classes Themau
VINO IS about II marry Is required 10 furnish
certificate from one or more physicians
that he Is free from diseases Of a certain char.
acter, and that he is free also from ali sicus
OF any Of the diseases which sc liable 10 be
transmitted 10 the offspring. Not only that.
bat the physicians consulted must testify
that, as far rs they can learn, there exists no
reason to believe that the union Will be other
than IN accord with the laws Of sanitation
Tho ruling families of many of the small
European states have their range in marriage
selection 50 restricted by their social code MS
10 furnish noteworthy examples Of the dis.
obedience Of the laws of scientific wedlock.
Inc Consequence Is the members are often
feeble minded, weak bodied, bigoted aud dis. |
eased. Francis Gallon speaks of the disap- |
pearance-largely due 20 marriage selection |
IN England of the once famous and thorough. |
bred looking Norman type When found |
now 1t generally exists, not among celebri |
ties, but in incOnspicuOus members Of aristo- |
cratic lanilies-snch as undistinCuished army |
officers and the like He notes, too. the very
evident superiority in highbred appearance
Of the otherwise less noteworthy Austrians |
over the modern Prussians Yet the
Prussans-well in the worlds front as |
they have placed themselves-are run
ming q race danger in their constant
employment in the army Of their best men.
These are exposed TO early death, are often
tempted into vice, and are prevented from
marrying during the prime of life The
shorter and weaker men, with fcebler consti-
tltlOns. arc left at home to raise the families; |
and thus danger is threatened to the con
tinued superiority Of the population.
In many countries the poorer classes marry |
early and have large families. They are too
ignorant to know anything Of the scientific
laws which should govern marriages and pa
fentage Not only are they poor and il. |
norant, but often vicious. Says Greg: The
careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman multi.
plies like rabbits; the frugal, farseeing, self |
respecting Scot, stern in his morality spirit.
ual IN his faith, sagacious and disciplined in |
intelligence, passes his best years III struggle |
and ceibacy, marrics late, and leaves few
behind him Given a land originally peopled |
by thousand Saxons and a thousand CeltS !
and III dozen generations nve-Slxths Of the
population would be Cells; but fivesixthS of
the property, of the power, Of the intellect,
would belong TO the one-sixth of the Saxons
that remained" Says another writer: 1T |
S one of the laws OF life that each individual q
shall 10 a great extent take the benefits and | {
evils of its own nature, no matter whether
-hesc come from ancestors by inheritance or 2
ire self produced from habit. n child is en- (
ltled a to birth with as few defects OF char Il
tcter and constitution as IL is possible to give C
t. Parents are bound by honor and by their D
'wn self interest, if they bring children into $
he world, to do it under such circumstances C
md conditions that their offspring may live
lealthy, happy, useful lives. To bring chill
lren into the world which will be incapable.
riminal or so diseased that their whole lives | h
will be miserable. is wrong, if not a crime" f
The day when true sanitary marriage will m
~~SA-Ae Vac uAS 10 ~ ipbS way hV Attd |
must be made moro plainly evident In this 81
ountry we are developing, from the ANAL b,
amation of many strains, race wholly new W
D the world. Our immigrants, as they inter IL
larry with those that have preceded them, ia
roduce descendants Of a quicker aud more az
ggressive mental type than their own, and III
Is noted by Darwin that the bodies and ca
mbs Of these descendants are very noticea- IN
ly longer than those of their ancestors. Dur. ri
Is our civil war the uniforms manufactured e.,
} fit the average American soldier, including c,
hose OF foreign descent, though born here, of
ere found, rs a rule TO be much too long
" foreigners just arrived. When we shall tn
ave learned and learned TO apply, the laws
proper selection in marriage our race an
light TO DO second to none in health and Lie
lysical development, and that means, also, /,
telicctual advancement. A wide step to- an
ard the needed reform has beer taken by so
? as a people, for far more than ever before to
o we interested in physical culture, upon ma
hich health SO clearly depends There is Oh
'ornise that it will yet have the high place Oh,
the curriculum OF education which II Ge- s.a