No one is in a better position to explain and prove the Law of Transmission, usually termed Heredity, than the experienced breeder of pedigreed stock. With him there is no such thing as chance. Every animal has its history and none are afforded the opportunity to breed indiscriminately.

When he mates "Gypsy" or "Beverly" to "Bonita, the third," he has detailed information before him covering both the weak and strong points possessed by each, and confidently expects certain characteristics to dominate in the young of the pair. If these should be missing, if weakness or other defects are present, he must seek for the cause in the care of the female during the period of gestation, or attribute it to a "throwback" of several generations.

In considering the law of transmission with relation to its influence on the human species, we must recognize that heredity governs only in part, being modified by so many factors that the Law itself hardly ever has the opportunity to work out fully or naturally. The every-day life, behavior and mental influence of the mother all having profound effects on her offspring.

In animal husbandry we have no such influences to consider. The animal has no "mental attitude," It is not given to moods, tantrums, violent hatreds, resentments, emotional upsets, or what not, all of which have a powerful influence upon the physical self of the mother-to-be, her spiritual self and, indirectly, upon the child in gestation. The animal is mated as wisely as humanly possible. At the correct time, after the female conceives, the male is non-existent to her and Heredity or the Law of Mendel governs from then on until the young are born.

Mating and the bearing of young in the animal kingdom are governed by natural law; the owner merely selects mates best suited to each other and to offset or eliminate weaknesses.

We learn most readily by illustration, and to serve the purpose of illustration here, we draw on our past experience. For more than ten years we experimented in the breeding of fancy poultry, and five years were devoted to raising pedigreed Collies.

For a female short in head and weak in coat, we selected for service a male lengthy of head with heavy coat. By this process we expected the male to transmit to the young his heaviness of coat as well as greater length of head. However, admittedly, we were confronted with the great unknown: which of the mating pair possessed the greater transmitability?

If the female happens to be more virile than the male, then it is altogether possible for her to transmit to the young her own characteristics and this would naturally cause her young to be much like herself. At the same time, despite the potency of her greater vitality, we still expect heavier coats for the young than she possesses, because vitality is one of the factors needed to produce a heavy coat.

If the male possessed the greater vitality, then we confidently looked forward to puppies with long heads; but even here unknown laws often govern, and some characteristics of a former generation may manifest.

This law can be even more clearly illustrated. There are several distinct types of Collies. The one most commonly known is the Sable and White; next the Tricolor, usually black, sable and white - being black of body, with white markings and sable around the eyes and possibly the mouth; lastly, the Blue Merle.

By mating a pair of Sable and White we would naturally look for young of the same color, with perhaps some modification of the tint. But there is no certainty; it is altogether possible that out of a litter of six healthy pups, five will be Sable and White, while the sixth may be a Tricolor, or even a black. What is the explanation for such an occurrence?

It merely indicates that, several generations back, one of the ancestors, either of the male or female, was a Tricolor, and that in the blood of one of the present parents there still remain some of the blood cells of this fore-parent.

Thus we have a "throw-back" or reversion of type. This impregnation of a cell of a former generation is identical to the transmission from parent to child of a disease, such as syphilis; though the transmitter is apparently not in the least afflicted with it. Of this we will speak later.

If a pair of fairly evenly matched Collies are mated, let us say of the desired length of head, heaviness of coat, and strength of bone; not too closely related; if the care and the food of the female is as it should be, we may confidently expect the young to possess the features of the parents; healthy and strong, and of like color.

Such a rule does not always govern the human family. If the parents are too much alike in features, temperaments and other characteristics, even though not at all related, the children resulting from the union, if any, may be the direct opposite of parents.

In the human family, the rule generally governing is: " Like produces like." If the parents are equal, in vitality, or nearly so, the likeness is more frequently after the mother rather than the father. This is for the reason that, while the father supplies the seed of life, and all of the future human monad is contained in this Spermatozoon, including the basis for health or the inoculation of an inherited disease, as the case may be, it is the mother who, during the period of gestation, fashions the new being by her mental attitude and mode of life in general. The thoughts of her mind, the passions of her entire being, and the emotions of her heart, profoundly impress the being in the process of creation.

If the mother-to-be is fully enlightened in the Creative Law, she is enabled to bring forth a god-man, a superior being, even though the father is practically a nonentity. Her work can extend to giving the child a healthy body and powerful virility, though the father is a weakling, provided, of course, that his blood is not filled with germs of syphilis or other transmittable disease, and his nerves and brain untainted with insanity.

We modify this last statement and claim that even these - cancer and syphilis - can be eliminated by the mother during the time of gestation.

Although we have made the statement that most frequently the child favored the mother, we do not wish to be understood as maintaining that this is always so. A superior man wedded to an honest, lovable, but inferior woman is enabled to father a genius by obedience to the law following.

The period during which man possesses the greatest creative potency is while he most desires the marital embrace; is filled with and manifests affection and love. It is at such moments that he concentrates every force within his being, and if the marital Rite is consummated at this time, he is, at the moment of the climax, thoroughly positive in every department of his little world.

If the woman granted his request after being thoroughly awakened to desire through endearments, giving him her love, and if he, during the entire embrace, especially at the moment of highest bliss, concentrates his mind on the one object of calling into existence a healthy, normal, and superior child, he is enabled to draw the potential forces from Heaven itself. This longing, hurled into space, will become a part of the child to be.

He is enabled to still further influence the health, strength and character of the coming child, by at each embrace concentrating all this energies toward that objective, thereby charging the vital fluids given to, and absorbed by, the mother-to-be; helping her to build body, nerve and brain into the new creation.

When both man and woman understand this one secret of Race REgeneration, the propagation of healthy, normal, natural and God-like offspring will be much more certain. We venture to say that ten wedded couples who truly love and have full comprehension of the law, faithfully practicing its tenets, could completely revolutionize this old world; their progeny would be so positive, so virile and influential, as to enable them to beneficially rule the races.

While the mother's influence is naturally much greater in fashioning the character and features of the child than is the father's she cannot so readily inoculate it with such a disease as syphilis. When diseases are transmitted by the father the transmission occurs through the life germ in the seminal fluid. When this takes place it is not always an indication that he is diseased, because it is entirely possible that his father, or grandfather, or even great-grandfather, may have been the sufferer and the germs, transmitted from generation to generation, have been dormant up to the time they become part of the new creation.

While various diseases are usually inherited from the father, mental conditions, especially insanity and neurotic tendencies, are most frequently impressed or absorbed from the mother, every state of her mind having a pronounced influence upon that of the unborn; it therefore behooves her to be extremely careful of her mental attitude while enceinte.

Another reason children most frequently favor the mother, all other things being equal, is, that while procreation is a passing fancy or an accident on the part of the father, it absorbs all life of the mother; her energies, thoughts and desires are concentrated on the task before her; consequently she continually impresses her personality, with its likes and dislikes, upon the creation being formed within her bosom.

When we leave the boundary of the physical and enter the realms of the purely mental, we meet with apparently serious contradictions relative to the Law of Heredity. For instance, it is generally known that most of the sons of great men are seldom an honor to their fathers; while those of financial giants are hardly ever successful. At a first superficial glance this would indicate a contradiction of the law; actually it is not.

A man may once have been a physical giant and, while the possessor of such strength, could undoubtedly have fathered an equally potent progeny. Gradually, through abuse or negligence, he deteriorates into a weakling, yet remaining capable of procreation. His offspring at this period would hardly be comparable to those fathered in his former virile condition.

For an almost similar reason the great philosopher, victorious general, or powerful magnate, seldom becomes the father of sons and daughters comparable to him; because his whole mind and all his energies are utilized in the special labor in which he is engaged, and there remains little strength or potency for procreation; in fact, these are generally no more than "by-products." As a fact, he may be hardly aware of his indulgence, embracing his partner possibly because he considers it his duty; at her instigation; or at the urge of a temporary sensual desire; very seldom, if ever because he longs to call into being one like unto himself. Procreation, with great or successful men, is usually an accident, one for which both they and their progeny suffer deeply.

Let the man who has achieved honor and distinction by reason of his talents set aside his vocation or avocation for a time, husband all his forces and energies, both mental and physical, and then concentrate them all in one Holy Act of Creation, governed by deep affection and a thorough preparation of his mate, and the world will be astonished at the result, while he and the Great Creator will be glorified.

Although Heredity undoubtedly underlies our strength and our weakness, it should not serve as an excuse for any undesirable inheritance we possess. Any one not physically or mentally all he should be, or would like to be, should be too much of a man or woman to place the blame on being thus born.

The inheritance of a weak body does not give man the slightest excuse for remaining weak during all of a lifetime; experience daily indicates that many of the really great statesmen, athletes, and philosophers, as well as others who have won world renown, were not born with any great physical strength, mental power, or financial backing, but obtained all of these through a refusal to bow the knee to fate, and by personal effort on their part, removed every obstacle and undesirable quality.

Similarly, because a man inherits syphilis from, or through one of his parents, is no legitimate excuse for him to remain a victim of this filthy, degrading and degenerating disease throughout his entire life and to die from it while still in youth. He is able, through force of Will, cleanliness and saneness of life and proper treatment, to eradicate it from his system; becoming as undefiled as if neither his parents nor he himself had ever been contaminated with it.

We should fully recognize the force of the Law of Transmission; but it is likewise our indisputable duty to seek understanding of the greater Law: That we are what we make of ourselves. That we are a combination of how we live, the food we eat, the thoughts we think, the desires we harbor, and our efforts to overcome or succeed.

Unquestionably, a powerful mental effort is required to enable those born weak to gain strength and then begin a life potential for accomplishment. The Law of Heredity should not greatly concern those already born; these should search themselves and find their weakness or incompetency, then overcome it. Rather, we should seriously give our consideration to the Law of Transmission.

This law concerns the unborn, and we should recognize and accept our duty to enlighten the world of its power to influence the physical, mental and spiritual welfare of those yet to be born; that these may not be burdened with the weaknesses and vices that cures the multitudes.

Humanity should be taught, as the sacred duty of our present civilization, not to indulge in the marital rite during periods when conception may take place, unless this is desired and they themselves are physically and mentally fit. To reason by analogy: the wise man will not attempt the construction of a house until he has prepared a sound foundation and is prepared to furnish all the material, so that when finished, it may be the "mansion of his dreams." On this same basis, conception should not be made possible until full preparation has been make for the purpose.

After conception does occur, the parents have definite duties to preform. Self-government on the part of each is of the greatest importance. The marital embrace should be undertaken only in its highest aspect, love and affection, not with mere passion as the incentive. The husband should never attempt to force his attention on the wife, but should arouse her to desire by fondling and caressing. She on her part should respond unless there are good reasons for her not to do so.

When the embrace is undertaken it must not be discontinued until her conjugal love is fully requited. The frequency of the embrace must depend altogether on the mother-to-be, though it is well for her to prevent frigidity or too great passion in her-self. It is equally important for the husband to understand that if the mother-to-be courts the embrace and is refused, the child may be born love hungry, a Magdalene, through no fault of her own.

These are a few of the important considerations in the procreation of a new entity. Admittedly, under present conditions the average husband has no understanding of the law; is governed by his carnal desires; disgusts his mate by his inconsideration, and thus forever impresses the child with like aversion; damning it through all the days of its life; creating in its nature desires ending in perversions, or frigidity and utter absence of feeling.

On the contrary, if the father labors under the erroneous belief that it is wrong to have sexual congress with the mother while enceinte, and she suffers from love hunger during this period, the child is almost certain to be impressed with this craving all its life, manifesting it by being unhappy in the companionship of one man or one woman; forever seeking, but never satisfied.

The mother-to-be has equally a duty to the unborn. She must govern her mental attitude to avoid impressing the child with impatience, hysteria, or the many other emotions resulting from an unsettled mind. She must build up the body by proper food, bathing and exercise, elevating her mental forces by right thinking, cheerfulness, chaste thoughts, and reading of good books, listening to good music, and the indulgence in healthful and wholesome recreations. A mother's duty is tremendous. If she fulfills it, however, she will be compensated a thousand-fold; the love she harbors in her heart and mind for the unborn will be the connecting link binding the child to her and to God in the years to come.

Many women develop a strange and apparently unreasonable appetite during the period of gestation. If this is for something which is in itself harmful, it should not be satisfied, but something of benefit substituted. If the appetite or desire is not harmful to her health and well-being, it should be supplied as quickly as possible to avoid unpleasant or undesirable physical disturbances.

Irrespective of the opinions of the mother-to-be on the subject of morality, she should not read salacious literature. Under no circumstances should she engage in conversation that is unchaste, because of the impressions on her mind and emotions; nor should she associate with individuals of questionable character. She should make every effort to elevate her thoughts, desires and inclinations toward all that is good and constructive. Irrespective of opinions to the contrary, every passion, appetite, desire and emotion of the mother-to-be is impressed upon the spiritual nature of the child during gestation. These are felt by the mother-to-be and all feelings are impressed upon the Soul. This is the Law underlying Race Regeneration.

Recommendations: Conception should be planned; never the result of an "accident" in the satisfaction of gross passions. Prior thereto, both husband and wife, and especially the wife, should consult the family physician for a thorough physical check-up, including blood count, blood pressure, urinary analysis and examination of the heart. If any defect is present, it should first be corrected. If all is well, pregnancy may take place.

Regular examinations after pregnancy are of value, but before pregnancy it is a must if undue sickness, sorrow and expense is to be avoided. Perfect manhood and womanhood is not the result of one or two things, but of many things in proper combination.
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