Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-05
SCIENTIFIC LOVE-MAKING

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SCIENTIFIC LOVE-MAKING
"Eugenics' is the title of a newly
evolved science-that Of love-making.
Its founder was DR.. Francis Galban,
and it has been brought into promi-
nence of late by Havelock Ellis, great
English authority on matters of sex.
The gist of the science, now represented
at the London university by a special
| lecturer is that ordinary love-ma king,
| by natural selection, is all wrong; it
should be so revolutionized that only
the physically and morally perfect
should perpetuate the human race.
That propagation of the species would
be improved, at least physically, by
scientific mating of the sexes seems
undeniable. The results of marriages
between physical weaklings, those dis
eased or tainted, are visible everywhere
and are certainly deporable If-it is
| by no means certain, but if-regulated
wedlock would achieve an improve
ment that is one argument in its
favor.
But so far as the moral aspect is
concerned, that an improvement would
result is by no means certain. In the
first place, there is no fixed, admitted
STANDARD of morals. What one person
people or race esteems as such, another
repudiates with scorn. Who shall be
the judge, to say what is and what
is not scientific morality?
Again, it has been demonstrated over
and over again that the moral condi-
tions of parents are by no means trans
mitted to their offspring. We're the
contrary true, the human race must
long ere this have perished from sheer
overwhelming weight of sin, accumu-
lated through past ages from ancestors
addicted to one or several evils, each
transmitting his own to his descend
ants. AS a matter of fact, while evils
are inherited to an extent they do not
become inherent in a mans soul until
he makes them his own by adoption.
The vast majority of the human fam
lily rise superior to birth-tendency TO
evil; some of the greatest men of the
world came from a fearfully bad line
of ancestry and were literally "con-
ceived in sin and born in iniquity"
Sin undoubtedly was given us to con-
quer, that we might achieve good there
by; no one can overcome evil and thus
gain good unless he has that evil pre-
scented to him. Were there no evil, we
would no longer be men.
Hence, even if it were possible, it is
by no means certain that it would be
wise to breed a race of automatons
who would know no evil, and thus, by
contrary, could perceive no good.
Yet, for the sake of argument, sup
pose "Eugenics" possible, would such
marriages, prearranged on scientific
lines, be attra enough to induce
men and women to enter into them?
1t is admitted that one of the greatest
joys of life is the engagement period,
with its sweet uncertainty, its coyness,
its charming innocence. "Eugenics"
would Danish all this, and make the
preliminaries to marriage a mere case
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doctors certificate. The very healthy,
moral-developing and character-build-
ing period of adjustment just after
marriage-the honeymoon-would be
eliminated-none would be needful. The
two persons would be merely so many
cog-wheels, perfectly adapted to run
together without jar or friction-and
with just about as much joy and pleas
ure
No; "Eugenics" is very fine in theory,
but in real life it won't do. The good
old method, pursued Since Adam awoke
in the Garden of Eden, found Eve by
his side and set out to win her. has
been the rule ever since. Every man
claims the inherent right to seek his
own bride and win her in his own way,
because in all the world hie heart tells
him She is the one that God made for
him. and every woman demands that
= she be let alone till He shall come and
WOO her whom her soul says is her
own true love.
And all the "Eugenics" in the world
can't change this, nor never will.