Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . has is teaches husband and wife to know eachother; it teaches parents to understand their children,and how to suppress all vicious or evil propensities,and how to cultivate such qualities as are deficient; itteaches us how to detect the vicious and dangerous,the hypocrite and the thief. Every young man and young girl should investigatethis science, and thus be enabled to read characterfrom the book of nature. If such information werepossessed by all, the courts wou
Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females .. . has is teaches husband and wife to know eachother; it teaches parents to understand their children,and how to suppress all vicious or evil propensities,and how to cultivate such qualities as are deficient; itteaches us how to detect the vicious and dangerous,the hypocrite and the thief. Every young man and young girl should investigatethis science, and thus be enabled to read characterfrom the book of nature. If such information werepossessed by all, the courts would no longer be crowdedwith divorces, murder and arson would be less fre-quent, and Christianity and virtue would not have tobattle so strenuously against vice and crime. When the laws of nature are more fully understoodand obeyed, with reference to procreation; when, in 64 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF fact, the masses of humanity fully realize that thehuman animal is subject to certain fixed laws, as wellas the lower animals, and that, by understanding andobeying certain laws, their progeny may be bettered,. or deteriorated by the acts of the parents, we shall seethe race improved. I would impress it upon you thatwhen the time arrives when man shall be educatedfully in those fundamental principles in our natures,the dawn of mans intellectual existence will have ar-rived ; that period, of which we read in holy writ, willhave been born—that period in the cycle of time calledthe millennium will then be present. Yes, ladies and LIFE AXD HYGIENE. 65 gentlemen, when that time arrives it will be not onlyimpolitic but considered a crime also for children tobe born into the world with vicious or immoral traitswhose parents are not vicious themselves. The bookof nature, Gods handiwork, says : Procreate yourrace in accordance with my laws, both mentally,morally and physically, and your children shall de-velop into men and women of great physical strengthand beauty, and mental and moral ab
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