Special hygienic and medical information for parents . the barbed arrows of love which Cupid isselecting from his quiver and hurling at yourheart, so influence your judgment that you willnot appeal to science for counsel before thematrimonial knot is tied. INTERMARRIAGE. So far as there is no hereditary taint, so far asthere are no particular hereditary eccentricities,so far it is proper for distant relatives to laws of Kentucky prohibit marriage between 144 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. cousins, yet marriage between cousins has beenattended many times with the most completeconjugal happiness
Special hygienic and medical information for parents . the barbed arrows of love which Cupid isselecting from his quiver and hurling at yourheart, so influence your judgment that you willnot appeal to science for counsel before thematrimonial knot is tied. INTERMARRIAGE. So far as there is no hereditary taint, so far asthere are no particular hereditary eccentricities,so far it is proper for distant relatives to laws of Kentucky prohibit marriage between 144 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. cousins, yet marriage between cousins has beenattended many times with the most completeconjugal happiness, and the offspring resultingfrom such unions have been perfect specimens ofhealth. It is claimed that marriage between cousinsgenerally results in sterility, and statistics wouldshow that the majority of the offspring resultingfrom such marriages are diseased physically, ordemented. The predispositions to disease, both physicaland mental, that is lurking in many familieswould be intensified by intermarriage; hence, asa rule, they should be CHAPTER XII. WOMANS SEXUAL RIGHTS. HOWSOEVER we may differ in regard towomans political rights, whether en-franchising her will lower her moral standing,cause her to neglect her social and maternalduties, which view is both indorsed and opposedby many sound logicians in moral ethics, yet, itseems to me, every unbiased mind will grant towoman the exclusive right to her own person insexual matters. There may be some doubting Thomas in re-gard to this subject. Therefore I will give afew reasons why she should be endowed withthis God given, if not man given, privilege. MOTHERS RELATION TO CHILD. Woman is more intimately related to the off-spring than man. Man is physiologically relatedto the offspring only by the transient moment ofsexual intercourse. Woman furnishes the ovum,man the sperm, and so far they are entitled toequal credit. All through gestation the mother 146 PHENOMENA OF HEALTH. and foetus are connected soul and body, but
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