We have been philosophizing; trying to teach vital, arcane and natural Laws governing reproduction, in pleasant doses, but there are vitally important pre-conceptive requirements that should not be neglected if a normal, healthy child is desired.

FIRST: The husband should have his physician make a through examination, or direct him to someone capable of doing this, to make certain he is not suffering from any infectious or inheritable form of disease, or from any condition, mental or physical, which would indicate that he should not father a child.

SECOND: The wife should follow suit. It is highly important that she does not suffer from any inheritable disease; that there be no anemic conditions of the blood; neither high nor low blood pressure; heart, lungs and kidneys in good condition and, equally important, no form of Neurosis.

THIRD: A period of waiting and thorough preparation so that the vitality of both be at the zenith.

FORTH: Thorough discussion, with full understanding and agreement that the child is really desired; that there is a willingness on the part of both to meet sympathetically the moods resulting from a state of pregnancy and that each will help the other in every way possible to overcome such moods; not by weak sympathy, but by seeking the cause and removing it. BOTH SHOULD FULLY COMPREHEND THAT THEY ARE ENGAGING IN A WORK SECOND ONLY IN IMPORTANCE TO THAT OF THEIR CREATOR WHEN HE FIRST CALLED MAN INTO BEING AND SAW THAT HIS WORK WAS GOOD AND WELL DONE.
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Let us suppose now that the preparatory period has progressed to within a month of the time arranged for pregnancy to take place. If the mother-to-be has a full consciousness of what she desires the future of her child to be and the father equally realizes the grandeur of the act that is to take place, they will also realize that just as the farmer carefully selects the seed he is about to sow, so must the seed of new life also have proper and most careful consideration. This is accomplished by abstaining from the marital embrace for a short period before impregnation takes place.

If the expectant father is naturally strong, affectionate and of pure mind, then the spermatozoon being generated will be filled with a vivifying force, vitally strong, incorporating the manhood and character of the father. "Like produces like," and whatever is the nature of the father will be impressed or be the nature of the seed germs.

The mother-to-be, in desire, purity and with expectation, consecrates herself to that which is to be; and will do nothing that might have an adverse influence, or impression mentally, physically or spiritually upon the ovum to be deposited in the uterus and impregnated.

Both father and mother-to-be during the pre-conception period, should arrange to obtain plenty of sleep, good, plain food, fresh air, exercise, pleasant recreation and desirable companionship.

This will provide the foundation for both mental and physical health of the child to be conceived. The marital embrace, hence impregnation of the ovum, should take place as soon as possible after the menses cease and purification has taken place. The egg or ovum, is then held in the womb ready for its fecundation. The longer the egg remains there before impregnation occurs, the less its vitality, hence the desirability for impregnation while the ovum is at its highest state of fertility; when the woman's desire is strongest, and she is able to return the deepest degree of affection.

The great majority of women wait for from six to ten days or longer before they permit the marital embrace and allow the semen, a natural magnetic force, to enter. The greatest number of children are conceived at this time; generally undesired and unprepared for, and when the ovum has lost much of its elasticity and firmness; with fear of pregnancy still present. The result, in all too many instances, is a puny child; weak, with an inborn liability to all manner of illness on the least provocation.
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Women, married in love, or what they believe to be love, uninformed of the Laws governing love and its natural termination, permit what we now recognize as false modesty and shame that has no basis in fact, to interfere with their full, or even partial realization, of the vital importance of normal, natural passion.

They have never been taught, hence do not fully realize, that it is PHYSICAL LOVE WHICH BRINGS ABOUT CONCEPTION; the means to creation of the child. This passion, BASED IN LOVE AND AFFECTION, should be strong, vital, alive with intensity. The father, if in reality a man, is normally and naturally strongly impassioned, though unfortunately, he may permit his passion to overshadow his love or affection.

The woman who permits conception to take place while sexually passive, fulfills but a small portion of her maternal duty; irrespective of how well and carefully she takes care of the child after its birth. Her first, greatest and most important duty, consists in being sexually and affectionally fully awakened when the seed of a new being is received by the laboratory that is to fashion it and bring it forth into life. Only in this manner can strong, healthy, vitally robust children be brought into life; children fit to meet the battle cry of the strong, and even the vicious.

All too many of those we know as "good" women deny passion's natural sway; hence are suppressed and depressed. They are, because of false teachings, or some other cause, ashamed of the Divinely-inherited, God-given power and potency which at first belonged to Him alone, and then was graciously transferred by Him to his creation.

It is undoubtedly true that more of the safely married "good" women are in dire need of the cultivation of normal passion, than there are of those in need of subduing it. Potentially, all except those wholly wrongly conceived and ignorantly born, possess passion. It is latent in nearly all, waiting only to be aroused and fanned into a flame; a flame which, if rightly directed, will save and glorify the individual. Conversely, if abused, it will react negatively and ultimately destroy the individual. Like all things both high and low, its nature is dual.

The instinct for love and affection, the feeling of passion, is not omitted in any normal creature. Unless based on pure selfishness, the desire of woman for marriage, for tenderness, compliments of the opposite sex, are all phases of love-passion, in their various ramifications.

Words are worse than wasted in trying to prove the universal existence of passion. Passion is necessary to normal life and constructive existence. Even in religion, it is the basis of the feeling which we know as devotion. The passionless creature has neither love, affection nor devotion.
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The final decision in the matter of marital relationship should unquestionably belong to the woman. She is the arbiter of destiny. The male human, in common with all animals, should be subject to her desire, even when she is arbitrary, unjust or unfair. Where is the moral, self-respecting, Manly man who would force his attentions on any woman? The desires of the female govern even in the jungle; even in insect life this is true. In the design of life as now obtaining, only the human male ever forces himself upon an unwilling or unprepared female.

True, general lack of passion in so many of our "good" wives is deplorable, and the disappointed, unhappy husbands, plus the haggard, flabby appearance of so many wives while still in the middle years of life when both should be in their glory fully attests to this unhappy state. To this situation, largely growing out of ignorance and misconception, are due all too many of the premature deaths of puny children and the almost unbelievable number of women who suffer from what is generally termed "female trouble" on the one side, and the hell of prostatitis and attendant ills of man, on the other.

When a woman does not respond to the marital embrace with an aroused passion, the results are, necessarily, injurious to her generative organism. Passion prepares the way by the extension and enlargement of the sexual organism and properly lubricates it in preparation for the creative act. Passivity in a woman renders her taut, unprepared, unlubricated, inert, hence the act almost automatically disrupts the equanimity of her delicate organism created expressly and most exquisitely for this purpose, and which has the ability when correctly aroused of adjusting itself, with all its minute blood vessels, to respond freely and joyously to every amatory desire and movement. We must never forget that in woman, at least, thought and desire are the great arousing forces. Man unless he has feelings of positive dislike, responds almost automatically.

The weakly-sexed and the self-righteous woman who disapproves, BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT LOVE, actually brings about an inertia and a shriveling of that portion of her being which would, if permitted to respond, prove her salvation in more ways than one. Awakened desire call it passion, if you will enlivens these delicate organs and permits them to receive life's magnetic forces from the contact; adding health and longevity to her who wisely follows Nature's laws. Those who foolishly or unwisely refuse, pay the penalty all too frequently in some form of prolapsis, lacerations and other so-called "female" ailments caused by suppression or abuse.
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The woman who is married, and no longer free to act as she otherwise might, should learn to co-operate with her wedded husband unless he is in fact an unfeeling brute. Though such cooperation, she will bring happiness to the home and family and avoid much suffering. If there are children, as there usually are, it will help to give them a desirable, even if not an altogether correct, heritage.

The deeper the passion and affection felt during the embrace when conception takes place, the greater the intensity of life conferred upon the offspring. Parents - especially the mother, if her desires are pure and deep - confer upon, or transmit to, their children their physical constitution, intellect and morals. On the part of the woman, this is largely limited to the strength of her desires; and, in the case of man, to the degree of sex-power at the time of conception. The entire parentage, with all its temporary states; is transmitted at this time to the offspring. Dormancy of these functions, at the time of the creative period, will have a strong tendency to weaken the children.

The love union, i.e., the marital embrace, when deep affection or love is present, activates all of the organs of the body; especially the mind, the nervous system and the heart, and arouses every elevating emotion. The child conceived as the result of such a union will be endowed with great vital energy and emotional possibilities, and therein is laid the groundwork for success, if not actual genius.

The desirability, in woman, of passion under control is readily conceivable. If we contrast this state of mind, heart and nerves with the passiveness, listlessness and even aversion of average woman during the marital embrace, we will readily foresee the difference in results to follow.

Greater love and affection are essential if a higher humanity is desired. Love should be thought, felt and acted. Love is the creative, activating force of the universe. Lack of love, and lack of keen desire, is the cause of moral, mental and physical weakness. Where there is lack of love, the entire being is out of tune with the universe and with humanity in general. The new creature should be the offspring of a love that is passionate; the deeper the love, the more human the child.

The combination of love and passion in both of the parents results in the blending of both of the parents in the child. In instances where the child, as so often happens, resembles only one of its parents in features, habits, temperament and inclination, it is a clear indication of one of two things; either the parents were not united in Soul, or one of the parents was physically and passionately weaker.

Conception should be a deliberate, prearranged affair. Even the time for birth should be given consideration. All things being equal, August and September are good months for conception to take place because the birth will then be in the Spring when new life begins to express itself in all the world.

Why are the hours of darkness thought to be the proper time for the creative act? There is a reason for it, though not a sound one. Throughout the ages the creative act has been considered as something shameful; something to be hidden from all the world. The statement that has been repeated billions of times and continues to be repeated: "Man is born in sin [as the result of a sinful act], of a few days, and of much suffering," gives us the key for this idea. THERE NEVER WAS A MORE UNTRUTHFUL IDEA THAN THIS.

If creation is a sin, then God has been guilty of the greater sin, because He was the first creator, or cause of the creation of man and nowhere is it written that He created man in shame or during the hours of darkness. On the contrary, after He made man He looked upon His handiwork and saw that "it was good." Why the taboo on man's creation? There is no shame in creation, nor in the act of creation unless it be the result of passion alone, without the help of God's handmaidens: Love and affection, and the sooner man's mind becomes enlightened on this vitally important subject the better for all of humanity.

Physiologically, the best time for conception to take place would be during the light of day and more especially during the early hours of the day while the sun is rising in the East and man's vitality is at its peak. Man is so steeped in ignorance and superstition; so obsessed by race belief that the conjugal embrace is sinful, that, with rare exceptions, he has no desire for the embrace at this time of day. On the contrary, this Divinely creative act is reserved for the the hours of darkness, as if to hide the face of the actors. It is as though they were committing a crime against man and God when, in fact, they are, or should be, co-creators with him.

LIGHT IS LIFE; LIGHT, LIKE LOVE, IS GOD. Light, sunshine, love, these imply health, strength, happiness, mental clarity so much needed in the world. Light with its attendant heat, is the source of life. Darkness is weakness, fear, inertia; all synonyms for decay and death. Physical man never has the amount of vital power during any other time of the day that he has in the morning after a night of rest, recuperation and rebuilding. No one is in possession of his greatest strength when the hours of darkness fall. Conception should not occur when only the shreds of physical strength remain. The universal rule should be: Choose that period when vitality is strongest, when desire is greatest.

The impressions upon the future child are at no other time more marked than at the time of actual conception; the most holy period in life when the trinity: God, man and woman in love, unite that they may create. It cannot be too often repeated that sex - the creative force - is the strongest of all forces in man. With this force are impressed the desires of the parents upon the child at the moment when the human seed, containing as it does, the image of the future being, is projected into God's divinely-designed laboratory, where it is to be fashioned into a human being.
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Passion cannot be separated from Love, nor the two in the creation of a perfect child - and why? Because true passion is one mode, and important one, of Love's expression. It's offices are triplicate. Once people understand this one great secret it will be the beginning of the end for many of the ills from which the world as a whole suffers. Brains and intellects differ almost as much as do physical forms. Hearts and affection are ever the same.

Through the latter, alone, man can attain Godhood, while woman will reign as queen and be his equal, where she now, for the most part, is a drudge or a toy, depending upon the position she holds. Woman, as such, whatever her position, because of her nature, has most of love crystallized in her being and for the one reason, if there were no other, is Divinely entitled to be the peer of any man as long as she directs her love and its power wisely.

This is not by reason of either her beauty, accomplishments, wealth or position, but because she has the womb, God's laboratory, wherein she may, IF SHE BE WISE AND WILLING, fashion the complete that which it took God, Nature and puny man, singly and combined, to barely begin, and that so badly, it is ever a wonder that the world is not more of a madhouse than it is today. IF SHE BUT WILLS IT, woman can be so great an artist that, from the worst seed, she is able to raise, she has raised, many a splendid mental giant; redeem the race from savagery; greatly improve the arts, science, even religion and make the earth truly inhabitable; a beautiful, heavenly place in which to live.

All this being true, it follows that when a woman is pregnant, her whole desire should be that of giving to the world a perfect specimen of her art, and if she does this truly, sincerely, we shall soon no longer behold such sadly misshapen human beings as now walk this fair earth of ours.

The woman carrying a child in her bosom, judiciously loved and properly treated; not spoiled and pampered, or kept on a dead level of life, can, during every ten days of pregnancy add more Soul - the God side of man - strength, beauty, compactness, energy, power, capability and possibility, and force of character and genius to the baby she is carrying, than she possibly could in all the weeks of her gestation if neglected in these several respects.

She will be able to build more greatness in every hour she lives under desirable conditions, and each step or stage of gestation will be carried one or more degrees further toward perfection. The only difference between a genius and a human weakling is, the first is finished step by step as the work proceeds. He is well-kneaded, as must be good bread; and he is needed too; well risen; well baked; therefore, well flavored; well done; will keep well; will be wanted by all, and wept over when gone.

The weakling is well described by the often-heard expression: "Oh well, he is only half-baked." This is a fair description of all too many of those who pass as men.

These misfits would be the result of accidents only, if men, and women, too, fully understood the one great immutable Law: LOVE LIETH AT THE FOUNDATION. Love is CONVERTIBLE, passion, enthusiasm, affection, holy desire, fire, Soul, God. That the nuptive moment, that instant wherein the germ (spermatozoon) of a new being is lodged; when a part of man's essential self is implanted within the matrix of the woman with intent and purpose, is the most solemn, serious, powerful moment that can be known to man on this earth.
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Dr. Randolph never wrote a greater truth, and no other writer ever stated a truth one-half as great or more important than this:

"Whenever you see a rich, jovial spirit or power in a boy or girl, wherever you behold force or genius, you may rest assured that the conception of which they are the result, occurred when their parents both loved and were impassioned. Au contrare: whenever you come across genuine meanness, lean, weazelish, deceitful, slanderous, lying, scrawny, white-livered people; grab-allish, selfish, and accursed generally, you may safely wager your very life that such beings were conceived of force, and were mothered by passionless, sickly, used-up wives, without the slightest danger of periling your stake!"

Whatever the dominant thought, Desire and/or feeling at the time of conception, it is instantaneously impressed upon the impregnating cell and impregnated ovum. If the parties partaking in the conjugal act are sane, sensible, cheerful, affectionate and graciously inclined - a term the meaning of which is but little and imperfectly understood - the child will at the outset of its life be endowed with like desirable qualities. If the husband at the same time be governed by reason and the qualities of true manhood, the child will become a power in the world and affairs of men.

On the contrary, if the parents be weak, fearful, fretful and uncertain of intent and purpose, the child is equally certain to be frail, unstable, and more or less incompetent; hence a liability, and not a blessing, to society generally.
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During the nine months of her pregnancy, the mother-to-be is truly engaged in God's vineyard; doing God's work. If the product of her labor is to be as nearly perfect as possible, reverence and encouragement should be her portion.

Nothing that is impure should pollute the sacredness of body, mind or Soul.

Sexual intemperance is to be avoided. Of the many evils to be most shunned, inordinate indulgence in the conjugal act is worst. THE DESIRE OF THE WOMAN MUST GOVERN; SHE SHOULD GOVERN HER DESIRE. If sacredness were allowed to govern, many deformities and weakness of body and Soul would be avoided.

Purity in EVERY RESPECT is essential during the process and period of maternity, if best results are to be obtained. All too many parents transmit to their children tendencies which will later sully the family honor; yet these children are not guilty in the slightest; they are merely manifesting that which is inborn in them.

Any form of vulgarity, whether in reading, conversation, thought or desire, is to be religiously avoided lest it be impressed upon the cells of the brain in formation and manifest as a habit during life. Any such tendencies should be eliminated by substitution. This is possible by recalling to mind something pleasant and beautiful immediately when a vulgar thought comes to mind. This is a form of sublimation and is the means of overcoming all evil tendencies of the this nature.
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All too many children are born with strong criminal tendencies because their mother-to-be constantly read tales of rape, arson, vice and murder in newspapers or novels and the feelings aroused were impressed upon the forming cells in the child's mind. Mother-to-be, wherever you are, whatever you are engaged in doing, draw a circle of purity, virtue, goodness and kindness about you. Do not permit any impression of evil to enter your mind or heart. If it does, immediately "root it out" by recalling an experience or vision of beauty. Think no evil, speak no evil, permit no one to discuss evil with you. Hold in mind constantly the thought of mental and spiritual well-being as well as physical health for the baby in the making.

Every form of true, kind, ennobling emotion you feel and experience will be reflected upon your unborn child. Every intellectual effort on your part will be an influence toward its thoughtfulness and the development of talent and intellectuality. On the contrary, and even with greater force, every thought and feeling of anger, all fretfulness on your part, will impress upon the unborn child's mind the spirit of maliciousness and be a handicap all the days of its life.

Maternal irritability is all too frequently the inducing cause of ill-tempered children. The destructive, quarrelsome boy, insulting to his mother tormenting to animals, the bully of his companions, is the more to be pitied the meaner his disposition, just as he should be had be inherited the predisposition to tuberculosis or insanity. HE IS A VICTIM OF THAT WHICH WAS IMPLANTED INTO HIM, knowingly or unknowingly by the passions of his mother while pregnant. It is she who is most guilty, even though unconsciously or unintentionally so.
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TEMPERANCE AND REASON MUST GOVERN. COMMON SENSE MUST BE THE CAPTAIN AT THE HELM OF THE SHIP PLYING THE SEA OF MOTHERHOOD. If unbridled desire is permitted to run rampant, a girl of the street or a libertine may be the result, of which there are far too many now. If, on the other hand, normal desire is denied or suppressed, the child, especially if a girl, may be love-hungry, a vampire, and the world is full of the unsatisfied and unappeasable. Be reasonable, rational, and the results will be desirable.

No sane, sensible, reasonable husband will force marital attentions on any woman, and especially not upon his pregnant wife. To do so may give rise to an aversion sufficiently strong to impress itself upon the child whether girl or boy with disastrous results. Self-restraint at this time will pay dividends beyond expectations.

On the other hand, the woman with child who is hungry for the embrace should make this known to her husband by one of the innumerable methods familiar to woman; and he, if at all possible, should respond with vim and affection, remembering that all that is done during this time will make its impression upon the child as certainly as happened with the cattle of Jacob in Biblical times:

"And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
"And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
"And the flocks conceived before the rods, and BROUGHT FORTH CATTLE RING-STREAKED, SPECKLED, AND SPOTTED. GENESIS 30: 37, 38, 39.

EVERY TREE BEARS FRUIT ACCORDING TO ITS KIND. This is true in the human tree, but with this exception: THE PREGNANT WOMAN, WITH OR WITHOUT THE HELP OF HER HUSBAND - though the cooperation of the husband is highly desirable MAY BRING FORTH A CHILD POSSESSED WITH NONE OF THE TWAIN'S WEAKNESSES, AND WITH QUALITIES NEITHER OF THEM POSSESS, BY IMPRESSION; that is, by her thoughts, desires and efforts, and herein is the mystery of Prenatal Culture, and its almost unbelievable possibilities of bringing into the world a more desirable human-family.
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All to many women during pregnancy, DUE TO DEFICIENCY IN THEIR OWN SYSTEM, become possessed with a desire to consume inordinately undesirable foods, especially sweets of all kinds. Normal desires should be satisfied, but at the first indication of an unnatural desire restraint must be exercised and the desire itself be eliminated by the practice of wise substitution.

Sweets in one form or another have their place in a normal diet, but when at all possible, natural, undenatured sweets should be consumed and these may be most generously found in honey, dates, figs, raisins and other such fruits. Desserts should not be part of the diet. If there is a desire for the various foods generally known as "deserts," then, when not very hungry, a meal should be made of the desired dessert such as real ice cream or pure gelatins, and milk, with no other food at such a meal.
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The diet for the woman while pregnant is of the utmost importance. it is not for a moment to be forgotten that all of the material to be used in the building of the body of the child-to-be, MUST BE OBTAINED EITHER FROM THE FOOD AND DRINK PARTAKEN BY THE MOTHER WHILE BUILDING THAT BODY, OR FROM HER OWN BODY.

Since we know that under modern conditions, subsisting on foods which have been greatly denatured or grossly adulterated, the mother-to-be is herself already under-nourished, that is, has not been consuming foods of a nature supplying her with the required material for body, bone, nerve and brain building(10), HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR HER TO SUPPLY THE REQUISITES FOR THE BUILDING OF A HEALTHY BODY FOR HER CHILD IF SHE DOES NOT POSSESS THEM HERSELF, AND IF THIS IS NOT DONE, HOW CAN THE CHILD BE NORMAL AND BE RESPONSIBLE TO NORMAL ACTION? ----------------------------------------------------------------------
(10) Contradiction of this statement is impossible. Witness the consumption of millions of dollars worth of vitamins and minerals; self-prescribed or by physicians. If natural, undenatured, non-devitalized and unadulterated foods were the rule, these so-called food accessories would be unnecessary.
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The selection of foods should be a wise one. All denatured and devitalized foods should be refused. The pregnant woman requires additional energy because her labors have been doubled. There should be an abundance of good protein selected from milk, cheese, eggs, every kind of sea food(11), beans, soy-beans, peas and lentils - all proteins, and, for those whose diet included or includes meat, the various meats, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF PORK (especially) and veal.
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(11) Sea food in general contains organic Iodine so essential to proper mind functioning. Without this element there could be no sanity. The Iodine in the Thyroid glands not only possesses a powerful influence on all mental activity, but also upon the functioning of the other important glands.
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There must be a plentiful supply of vegetables, both raw and cooked, because these contain the essential minerals and they also neutralize the acids and toxins in the proteins. There must be starches, especially those obtained from potatoes with their skins, peas, beans, lentils, barley, rice and the various whole grains, all rich in vital starch and the minerals; some of the grains also containing rich lecithin, the nerve and brain builder. A certain, but not too great amount of fats must be included as a lubricant, and the fruits for their vitamins and minerals and their ability to help neutralize bodily and food acids and toxins.
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Very few women, pregnant or not, have as much Calcium (lime) in their systems as is required for health, and certainly not enough to furnish a sufficient amount for the bony structure of the child being developed. For this reason, foods consumed should be natural and possess plenty of Calcium. With rare exception, sweets, whatever their nature or name, do NOT possess this essential building material; hence no great amount of sweets should be consumed; only enough as required for heat and energy.
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Many women during pregnancy develop a desire for alcoholic drinks. Alcohol, during pregnancy, especially, should be recognized as an actual poison both to the pregnant woman and her child. Alcohol in any form is fattening to the woman with child. It is a fiery, liquid fuel that will set her already sensitive nerves or fire. It is irritating to the mentality. It stimulates the appetite. It arouses the emotions that are already unbalanced: It is a corroding poison to the brain cells borming in the child; those cells that must guidethe child on the path of life. If these brain cells become poisoned or are made abnormal in any manner before birth, it is almost certain that they will continue so throughout life.

The woman who is given to partaking of alcoholics, irrespective of how temperately, and who seeks to become a mother, should discontinue their use entirely during the months before she conceives, so that no effects will remain when she does conceive.
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Condiments, with the exception of a very small amount of white or red pepper, just enough to season food, come under the same classification of stimulants as does alcohol, but with much less potency for evil.
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The use of tobacco in its effects upon the pregnant woman and her unborn child is second only to alcohol. An unknown author penned these lines:

"Tobacco is an Indian weed:
It was the Devil who sowed the seed."

He no doubt had in mind the poisonous, hence evil influence, tobacco has on the delicate nervous system of women, and especially so on women in pregnancy.

Tobacco contains, as all physicians and those who have investigated know, an active poison; so active that at its first use the partaker may, and frequently does, become "deadly ill." It is only by continued use that the natural resistance of the body is overcome and Nicotine becomes the master.

Tobacco has a direct influence on the generative system, especially the ovarian and uterine system of the woman; on the nervous system and the brain. Like alcohol, it may first activate the brain and then be followed by weakness or inertia.

Irrespective of what we may wish to believe, tobacco has an ill effect, both on man's nervous and his mental system. Man's system, however, is not nearly so finely sensitive or delicate as that of woman and more readily adjusts itself. Moreover, the nervous system of man does not readily affect his emotions, because he is governed by his reason rather than his emotions.

Woman is governed by her emotions and these emotions are in turn greatly influenced by the state of her nerves. During pregnancy these nerves are "on edge" as it were, and are readily affected. Whatever affects woman's nerves, and, especially, her emotions, directly affects the child being fashioned in her inner laboratory.

As with alcohol, the woman desiring, and preparing, to become a mother, should give up smoking as she should alcohol, months before pregnancy is to occur, especially if she has in mind giving to the world an exceptional child.

In all of these matters it is well to constantly bear in mind a powerful Law:

Self-preservation - that is, preserving one's-self from all that is harmful and undesirable and not conveying anything of a like nature to others - and self-respect - refraining from those things which may degrade or harm ourselves or others - will go a long way toward freeing the world from evil. Is this not the innate desire of the woman seeking to give to the world a perfect child?
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A constantly-increasing number of children are born without the vital energy necessary to the proper functioning of body and mind. They are born tired." The causes for this are numerous. The pregnant woman preforming tasks almost beyond her strength is undoubtedly a cause, but far from the main cause.

Our foreparents traveled to the new world in search of a home, labored beyond what we would now recognize as endurance, and in addition, suffered innumerable hardships and dangers; nevertheless, the mothers of those days BECAME THE MOTHERS OF THE MEN, REALLY STRONG MEN, WHO DEVELOPED THE COUNTRY AND MADE IT GREAT. The main cause of widespread weaknesses in our present generation is that the race as a whole, and women in particular, suffer from lowered vitality, due to denatured foods and a conglomeration of what are called "foods" - preparations made to look attractive and taste well, but denatured, devitalized and adulterated to such a degree that, in many instances, they work as a poison in the system, rather than a food.

These concoctions, easily procured and prepared for consumption, are the main cause of the lowered vitality from which man suffers. In addition to this is the lack of proper rest, recreation and exercise; the constant on-the-go-ness; the late hours plus sweets, tobacco and alcohol. All of these things help to denature and devitalize the body of both men and women, and as a consequence, the children suffer even before birth.

ALL THINGS PRODUCE AFTER THEIR KIND. It is equally and most certainly true that ALL THINGS PRODUCE AFTER THEIR CONDITION! Because this is a certainty, it follows that the more vital and healthy, both physically and mentally, the procreating mother, the more so will be the child. Herein is the secret of a perfect generation; this cannot be too frequently repeated or too strongly emphasized.
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Idleness during pregnancy is one of the worst evils and is to be avoided at all cost. There should be constant activity, but it should be of such a nature as not to deplete the system. Activities having no special aim and not of a constructive nature, should be avoided. All duties, whether congenial or not, should be performed in patience and with a sense of being necessary; they are important, and being important, they are constructive; hence confer an honor and not an indignity. There should be recognition of the fact that all necessary labor is honorable and that honor is man's - and woman's - highest estate. This inbreeds honor in the unborn child, and, certainly a new sense of honor is badly needed in the race as a whole.
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Great emphasis has been placed on the part played by the mother in the drama of bringing forth into the world a new being. This would make it appear that maternity is exalted at the expense of paternity. This is not meant to be so. The father is certainly a great deal more than an incident in procreation. If he will take a part, or be permitted a part, in the preparatory and gestatory period, he will most certainly be greatly interested in the growth, education and government of the child from the time of its birth until its development into manhood or womanhood.
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No woman, no woman in pregnancy, no mother, can live an ideal life in isolation. At best she is but one part of the whole; one-half of a sphere; one part of a little world. Neglect is as destructive as is abuse. Some men, perhaps all too many men, are ashamed of the appearance of their wives during pregnancy. A degree of modesty is commendable. There comes a time when the home, rather than the social function, is the proper place for the pregnant woman. All things within reason; so should be woman's life toward the end of her pregnancy.

In days past the pregnant women were honored at home and in public. Maternity was a god to whom the Romans paid tribute, and woman was paid exalted deference. Without doubt, this homage paid her gave her a feeling of superiority which was impressed upon, or imparted to, her unborn child.

Rome, during her age of greatness, before her manhood and strength were dissipated by idleness and in riotous living, was the envy of all nations; chiefly because of this homage, nobility and sense of honor. In nations where the mother is relegated into the background, or feels a sense of shame or inferiority because of her pregnancy, she is unhappy and defected when she should feel proud. If she feels embarrassed because her form is, for the time being, misshapen, her forthcoming child cannot escape the impression or impact of this feeling which becomes a most serious handicap to his future welfare and success.
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It is now generally estimated that almost one-third of all children born into the world are more or less mentally unbalanced. This mental abnormality ranges all the way between feeblemindedness to actual idiocy. DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE A MENTAL WEAKLING INCAPABLE OF MEETING OTHER MEN IN COMPETITION IN THE ACTIVITIES OF LIFE? It is for you to choose. In forty years of active service in this field in all parts of the world, NOT A SINGLE MENTALLY INFERIOR CHILD WAS BORN IF THE INSTRUCTIONS HEREIN GIVEN WERE FOLLOWED. However, It should be emphasized that men and women whose families have a strain of insanity should not become parents.
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