Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-07

ancestors is no longer matter OF theory.
No doctrine is more thoroughly cs'ab'
lishcd than the doctrine Df Incredibly"
thanks to the efforts OF great thinkers
and observers like that bold scientist
and splendid Englishman who, TO our
sorrow, has Just passed away Habits,
repeated aud persisted in for genera.
tons. become instincts, and faculties OF
body and mind, cultivated for a length
ened period, become more or less trans.
missible. There may be occasional
breaks In the ohain-the natural vati'
ants and flaws OF continuity also
frequent symptoms OF stavism, but the
mysterious forces that influence form
aud vitality, when once fixed IN the
blood, become apparently ineradcable,
Thus the vices OF the fathers are visited
upon the children, and their virtues re-
produced for ages. Like bcgeS Ike,
even to our feelings, thoughts and act
ions, this consideration should alone be
a sufficient bar to vice and powerful
incentive to virtue.
But the character OF the individual Is
also largely determined by maternal
impressions between t. conception aud
birth. Many remarkable instances have
been recorded, and prove how strong Is
the reaction OF the mothers thoughts
and feelings upon her unborn child. a
sudden flight or a disgusting spectacle,
an unpleasant Imagination VI an impul'
siye and unsatishrd desire, may become
the cause Of much evil and OF bitter
disappointment. An infant for instance,
was born with all it, limbs bfuken,owing
to the shock ocCasioned to It's mother
during severe thunderstorm. Ana
many a deilfmcd or detective Guild,
born OF healthy and welcomed par
ents, owes its misfortune TO the uueN'
pecied appearance Of some wandering
monsttosity IN our streets, On the other
side, II Is believed that some Of the
noblest characters had their itst I'M
pulse to greatness bestowed upon them
by their mothers care to avoid u1Nious
impressions aud to receive only aumulat'
ing and salutafy ones.
Perehxc tells Us IN lis history OF Henry
the Great oil France, that Henry d'Al'
bert, his grandfather, made his daughter
promise to sing a song to him, IN ofitI,
said he, that YOU may bring me child
who will neither weep nor make WY
faces. The princess had iofilude
enough, IN the midst Of her pains, 10
keep her word, and sang song IN Bear
noise, her own county language Is
soon as Henry entered the chamDertlc
child came into the world without cry,
ing, his grandfather Immediately carried
him to his own apartment, anu there
rubbed hts little lips with a Glove OF gar
lie, aud made him suck some vine Out
oil gold cup to make his constitution
strong and vigorous. MY eve,
said Henry d'Albert, has brought lof'h
a lion. This child will revenge me on
Spain for the injuries have received
from her. 80 lie was brought up
In the castle OF Coafasse In Bearn, silua-
ted amidst rocks and mountains. Henry
d'AlbeTt his grandfather, wuull nave
him clothed and fed like other children
IN that country. They even accustomed
him TO run up and down the rocks II
is said that his ordinary food was brown
bread, beei, cheese and garlic; and lhat
they often made him walk barefoot aud
bafeheaded." Can Il be doubted that
much heruism to make her child worthy
had communicated to him before his
olrth. as well as alter, those patriotic and
lofty impulses which dominated her and
which made him the victor OF lyry, and
the noblest prince aud brayest warrior
OF Europe2 The memoirs Of his great
Minister, Sully, show that Lord Macau'
lay used no eNaggeratiOn when he made
the HuguenOIs sing Of him;
OH was there ever such knight In rsni.hIp
A, our Sovereign Lori. King Henry. the
soldier OF Navarro,
IL was not the psychologists, but the
poets. who first suggested the mysterious
power which mothers impressions
have upon her child as well as the subtle
influence OF the mind upon the body.
From Plato's time downwards, they
have not ceased to teach that the form
reflects the soul and has been moulded
by IL, and to urge upon mothers the
duty OF Cultivatlng all vltiuous and
noble sentiments, and Of sedulausly
stunning whatever would contamlnate
or lessen the mental, moral, and bodily
yigour OF their Offspring. They were to
fare simply, to feed their souls with
beauty, to mediate upon all that was
glorious, and TO habtuate their thoughts
aud actions to moral greatness and true
nobility. Even In the matter OF reading,
they we're to choose only the best and
purest authors, were 10 make their com.
mon recrrations eleyaling, and In all
circumstances to preserve a gentle
equanimity. And they were taught that
In SO FAT as they adhered TO all this, so
far. In all probability would be their
success as moulders Of excellent child.
rem. History tells US OF many mothers
who adopted these methods with inylu.
ably good fortune, Il would Seem,
therefore, that the character VI child
greatly depends upon that OF the mother.
that the germs OF lis proClivlics may be
sown by her before It's birth, and that il
lies within her power not only to give a
bent to its faculties, but also 10 divert
them from hereditary and evil tenden.
cies.
The poet Spencer said.
Every sp.riasi, is mos, pure,
Aud hath no u rH more Ul heavenly lght
Sot'he hlrgr body doth pnoauJe
10 habtin.
Fer Of me SOU. hc body form doth take
For sou. Do form sad doth ihr body make.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote,
The soul which grows Within a ,.ld makes
the child grow.
Charles Kingsley, in THE Water
Babies TO put il within the comprc-
bengi0n Of "a rDiI# slygs-uE.u t7,v.t