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(*) Before publication, the manuscripts for both PRENATAL CULTURE and RACE REGENARATION: THE MYSTERY OF SEX were read by (1) physicians interested in the subjects treated, (2) women who had been previously instructed along these lines, and (3) co-workers representing widely different walks of life. These readers, almost without exception, expressed the wish that this chapter from Race Regeneration be included as part of the present volume - the physicians so that they might provide copies to patients approaching the Menopause; the others, that they might present copies to their friends and loved ones in need of such guidance.
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As at puberty, the temple doors of the creative being are opened so that God's universe may be peopled, so at Menopause are they closed and if all has been well, Nature bespeaks the benediction: "As thou has been faithful despite all thy suffering, now may thou know the joys of life without the shadow of fear."

The period of a woman's fruitful years are varied. In some instances menstruation may commence as early as the age of nine or ten and continue until fifty. In others the lunar season does not appear until the fifteenth or even the eighteenth year, ceasing at thirty-five to thirty-eight.

Many conditions influence both the commencement and the cessation. Heredity frequently governs, and the girl whose mother changed from girlhood to womanhood after reaching the age of fifteen, and from fertility into Menopause at thirty-eight, may expect the same rule to govern in her life, although this is not always true.

Women who have borne children do not usually enter the menopause as early in life as those who have not. As a general rule, the more children a woman has had, the later she may expect the "Change of Life" to occur.

A fallacy which has been universally accepted as a truth, and from which we hope to free suffering womanhood, is the race belief that as a woman approaches the years when menopause should occur, she will commence to suffer all the misery, both physical and mental, that the flesh is heir to.

Nothing need be further from the truth; physical ailments and mental morbidity are not generally necessary and, when present, merely indicate either ignorance or an abnormal life.

As this period of life the creative organism does undergo a change, the ovaries atrophying, reducing in size and ceasing to function as previously. It is also generally believed that the uterus, like the ovaries, will atrophy. No doubt this does occur in some instances, but it is entirely unnecessary. If the laws governing woman's sexual life and activity are unddrstood and obeyed, women undergoing menopause may remain as yourthul in their desires and their capacity to exchange the full love embrace with husbands as before the change, and one of the chief causes of divorces at this period of life - in plain words, the wife's frigidity and lack of response - will have been removed.

During the period when menopause takes place the entire nervous system must undergo a thorough re-adjustment. One of the first symptoms of the approach of a normal change of life is irregularity in menstruation. Sometimes the lunar flow will be missed for several months. Then it may appear regularly for some time; again ceasing for a shorter or longer period. This continues until the process of reconstruction is completed.

Undoubtedly, even in the strongest women who have lived in obedience with natural laws, the various changes require greater strength than did the monthly periods of cleansing. Because of this, the food should be especially vitalizing and free from congesting material, while the body should have less active exercise and the mind longer hours of rest.

Teaching by illustration is by far the easiest method. We recall the case of an average woman who, during her youth, received no instructions in the care of her physical organism; who refused all opportunities for gaining this important knowledge. She was the mother of several children, suffering severely when giving birth to most of them, by reason of improper food, worry, overwork and many other unnatural and unnecessary factors.

This woman is now in her fourth year of the change. A day or two before the commencement of the flow there is a disturbance of the stomach, then a bilious headache so severe it becomes necessary for her to go to bed. This headache may continue twenty-four to forty-eight hours. During this time she is practically unable to see, so great is her suffering.

Then the flow of an odorous fluid commences and continues for possibly five or six days. The woman is irritable, at times extremely nervous, and next to irrational. From present appearances the change will not be completed for another year or two. Our experience indicates that, with slight variations, this is the usual "hell of middle life" through which most women pass.

We also have in mind an acquaintance, a woman who was blessed with an enlightened mother by whom she was fully instructed during her girlhood years. This lady no longer believes that she need be ashamed of any portion of her body, but feels that she has a perfect right to be proud of it.

She has long since thrown into discard the age-old idea that she is the plaything of her husband, with no right to refuse his request, or indicate her desires; also the belief that when she passes through the gates of the menopause she will no longer be a desirable companion for her husband, and incapable of offering him the pleasures of youth.

This lady, the mother of nine children, at the age of forty-eight, had neither a thought nor an indication of the approaching crisis until the lunar flow ceased to appear. A day or two after the period when menstruation should have commenced she was aware of slightly hot flushes and a desire to rest.

Instead of giving way to worry, WOMAN'S USUAL COMPANION, she took a warm douche, a tepid bath with a quick rub, a hot cup of tea and went to bed. In a few hours these flushes passed and she felt wide-awake, though slightly nervous. In place of asking for an opiate, she dressed and took a long walk, swinging her arms and breathing deeply.

For the next few days she changed her diet to luscious fruits and fresh green vegetables, such as lettuce, celery, corn, peas, and plenty of milk and fresh eggs. During the time of what had formerly been the lunar season she abstained from meats, sweets, spices and stimulating drinks.

The next periodical flow appeared as usual, but she continued the former treatment. After an intermittent appearance for about a year, the flow ceased entirely and for six months past there has been no indication of its ever again appearing.

During all of this period she never for a moment permitted herself the thought that now she would be less a woman or less desirable to her husband, but remained firm in the belief that there should be no change in the conjugal relationship, and acted accordingly. As a result, her husband was barely aware of the change taking place. This is the natural way of the change.

Cases vary even when an enlightened regime is faithfully followed, but it is safe to say that every abnormal and undesirable symptom can be quickly overcome by rest, abstaining from certain foods, taking proper exercise and a correct outlook on life, and adopting such remedial agents as may be necessary.

Generally, the greatest enemies woman must contend with during the menopause are indigestion, dyspepsia, sluggishness of the liver, over-work, abnormal indulgence in food and drink, unhygienic surroundings, etc. If these be removed and normal habits of life established, there need be no reason for worry.

It is a universally accepted delusion that with the cessation of the periodic flow, woman naturally ceases to enjoy the embraces of her husband, and is no longer capable of conferring upon him the former satisfaction, supposedly due to the atrophying of the ovaries, and shrinking of the vaginal walls. This is a race belief which has been the cause of more misery, sorrow, broken hearts and disrupted homes, than almost all other combined influences.

This thought, always present in the mind of woman long before the time of the approaching change, has been a "thorn in flesh." Many women look forward, with dire foreboding, to the period when the fires-of-love -keen desire - will no longer burn within her and she will become incapable of giving the former pleasure to the man she loves, with the altogether natural expectation that he will seek satisfaction elsewhere than at his own fireside.

This constant fear and expectation unquestionably have much to do with the unnatural and undesirable change taking place, as well as with the gradual decline of the woman's desire for the usual love embrace, so that by the time the "change of life" is actually completed, her entire organism, no less than her desires and capabilities, have become paralyzed and she becomes frigid in her nature, totally at variance with her former self.

There comes to us the psychological law expressed in the Bible as a religious truth: "The thing thou feared has come upon thee," and nowhere else in Nature is the working of the law more certain than in the domain of the emotional nature.

As a matter of absolute - and saving - truth, we can assure every woman living that there is no foundation for this destructive race belief. She may avoid becoming a victim of this inertia. She can, if she will, become many times more capable of both experiencing and giving affectional pleasure after the menopause, than during any other period of her life, with the possible exception of the first few times she permitted the embrace.

If a woman will keep the affectional fires burning while passing through the change of life by willingly, and with conscious desire, accepting the conjugal embrace at least once a week between the lunar periods, being watchful that she experiences the complete climax in its highest perfection each time, she will not only keep the love nature alive and fully awakened, but she will delay the atrophying process of the ovaries and the shrinking of both uterus and the vaginal walls; becoming thereby capable of giving more intense and prolonged pleasure to her spouse than ever before, because the constant fear of pregnancy will have been entirely removed.

Up to a comparatively very short time ago it was thought that only women passed through a change of life. Physicians, like the laity, labored under this belief. Now we know that men, as well as women, pass through such a change and at about the same age. The symptoms are very much alike in both instances:

UNCERTAINTY and growing lack of faith in one's ability often to makes its appearance. This symptom is more pronounced in men than in women. The fear of becoming incompetent; mental depression; a seeming dullness of memory and the inability to concentrate as well as formerly, are usually more pronounced in men than in women. Other common symptoms are: Lassitude and inertia; a desire for inaction; palpitation of the heart; asthma or other ailments heretofore unknown, and fears of various kind, all without actual reason. Danger is frequently sensed, though none is present. Men easily become excited or worried without actual cause. Numbness, due to a decrease of circulation, may be felt; nerves may be taut and "on edge" much of the time. There is frequently a loss of interest in things formerly considered essential to life and happiness - a sense of failure and insecurity. Irritability and loss of control are often experienced, even in trifling, inconsequential affairs. There may be a lack of Libido, i.e., the former urge for sexual relationship. In fact, this may become pronounced; more so in men than in women.

In general, Nature is giving warning that insofar as she is concerned, she is withdrawing from the scene; that the parties concerned will be obliged to follow other than former methods, and bring other forces into play if they wish to remain competent and fulfill the role of true men and women.

WHY SHOULD THIS BE SO? Why is it that, up to the years of forty or forty-five the normal, healthy man is moved by a sex urge almost beyond control, and supplied with the vim and vitality to indulge inordinately, and then - almost over-night -becomes apathetic and indifferent? Why is it that the woman, who formerly had to be aroused by fondling and caressing, may now be of an entirely different nature? Why all this change?

It is as though a man had been sustained for many years to a point near heaven by some force or power, other than his own, and permitted, aye, even urged, to enjoy life to the full without personal effort; and then, suddenly, being cut off, as it were, in mid-air, with the stipulation: "If it be your desire to enjoy what has been yours for so many years, YOUR PERSONAL EFFORT MUST COMPENSATE FOR THAT WHICH WAS FREELY GIVEN YOU UP 'TILL NOW. If you fail to make this effort, and make it constantly, then all that has been yours will be lost to you."

Nature is utterly selfish. She concerns herself solely and wholly with her own interest. Beginning with adolescence she sets into motion certain emotional longings and desires which automatically create forces and energies that MUST find activities and outlets in one form or another, and the most "natural" is the Biological urge -desire for the exercise of the libido. This desire, almost incessant, is an incentive not so much to create as to enjoy and satisfy the urge. Nature is wise in this respect, because it assures her continued creation of the species. In man, this is a carnal urge which Nature instigates and keeps active so long as it serves her. In woman the desire is aroused by love's activity, or what she believes and accepts as such; induced by petting, fondling and coaxing. Man is the tempter; woman the tempted.

During this period, effort, on the part of man, except in the direction of self-control, is unnecessary. Whatever efforts he exerts are to hold his emotional urges in check, rather than to arouse or awaken them.

But all things must come to an end. There comes a time when Nature has obtained from man all she desires or all of which he is capable. His days of virility over, Nature arranges thus:

"Up to the present time I have given you all the power and energy required to enjoy yourself to such degree that you have been unable to resist the Urge within you. I, Nature, have been the incentive of your acts. I have been your `devil' of pleasure. You, in turn, have been the tempter of your mate. Between you, you have served me well. You are now no longer useful to me; hence I sever my connection with you and yours. IF YOU DESIRE TO REMAIN A man, AND YOUR MATE A woman, then YOU MUST HENCEFORTH DO FOR YOURSELF THAT WHICH I HAVE PREVIOUSLY DONE FOR YOU."

NATURE IS CRUEL, BUT IN HER OWN WAY SHE IS ALSO MERCIFUL TO MAN THOUGH HE IS GENERALLY UNAWARE OF IT. ALTHOUGH SHE FORSAKES HIM AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT, SHE DOES NOT ENTIRELY LEAVE HIM HELPLESS. HE STILL HAS THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THE ABILITY, TO DO FOR HIMSELF EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY DONE FOR HIM with the exception of the capability of procreation.

At this stage of life, what is man (this includes women) to do? Nature gave man his virility in order that he might enjoy himself freely, and, as a result, procreate the race. God gave man something far greater than that which Nature did -HIS IMAGINATION. The INCENTIVE of nature is withdrawn, the IMAGINATION MUST STEP IN AND TAKE ITS PLACE.

One of the first symptoms of the oncoming "change" is the lack of the libido on man's part, and the loss of desire to be aroused on her part. This is an inertia which is death if permitted to continue. This inertia is truly a prolific source of excuses: too tired; business has been difficult; I have a headache; my back hurts. Although there is a feeling of guilt, each has a pet excuse with the result that instead of bringing the imagination into play to arouse the desire for embrace, they turn about and go to sleep, and weakness is added to weakness.

It is a truism: "Constant watchfulness is the price to be paid for continued MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD." Both husband and wife should have a full understanding of the mysteries of their being, comprehending both their strength and their weakness and work in harmony with each other. The must become FULLY CONSCIOUS of the fact that since Nature will permit their virility to die out, it is incumbent on their part to MAKE THE NECESSARY EFFORT TO KEEP THEMSELVES SEXUALLY AWAKE, ACTIVE, ALIVE. They should agree that, if their own physical natures will not respond automatically to a desire for the marital embrace, they will bring the Imagination - Gods greatest gift to mankind - into activity. This should be done no least than once a week.

This is most readily accomplished by retrospection - by looking into the past and recalling to mind some exceptionally pleasant experience of the marital pleasure which was unforgettable. In doing this, the imaginative faculty will do what Nature formerly did for them: SEND THE BLOOD COURSING THROUGH THE PROCREATIVE ORGANISM; AROUSING THE DESIRES AND BRINGING BACK THE ABILITY TO ENJOY THE EMBRACE AS FULLY AS BEFORE. If this method is followed from the very beginning when Nature ceases to give help, then within a short period of time, a NEW CYCLE OF AN AFFECTIONAL NATURE IS ESTABLISHED and the libido on his part, and the response on hers, will become natural and automatic, and life will go on as before.

Question: Is it worth the effort? Is a man man enough to do what is necessary to remain a man? Does the woman possess enough affection to make the necessary effort to continue a worthy object of affection? These are questions every individual must answer for himself or herself.

If we can be successful in spreading this law of nature broadcast so that all men and women may come to an understanding of its potency for the continued retention of youth, then countless homes that would otherwise be disrupted, will continue happy and content in the knowledge that all is well.

Let every man and woman look forward to a greater fulfillment of life AFTER the menopause, giving extra care and attention to the entire system while passing through the change, keeping alive the entire being - mind, body and Soul - by recreation; the mental faculties awake and active, the body virile through exercise. Let them attend good plays, associate with refined, cheerful people; enjoy life; never mention the change that is taking place, except to the physician; consistently refuse to recognize a morbid side of life. Let them eat only those foods which will continue to rebuild the mental and nervous system; creating the vital forces to maintain balance and equilibrium.

Once the change has been completed, she may no longer require the extra strength and vitality preciously necessary for her well-being; nor will she need to recover the loss sustained every month by the lunar flow; thus will she be stronger, capable of greater effort, and posses the power of showing deeper affection for her husband.

A serious error of the past, and one still prevalent, is the generally accepted opinion that menopause is a disease; an evil from which there is no escape. Undoubtedly, there has been good reason for such a conclusion, because those who previously enjoyed health, strength and marital pleasures no sooner enter upon the change in life - for such it is - than they become afflicted with various ailments and weaknesses, all more or less serious in themselves, and becoming more serious if neglected.

Menopause is an entirely natural functional change from creative usefulness to creative rest. Instead of heralding disease, misery and, not infrequently, life-long suffering, it should be, and can be, the herald of health and strength; a time for the enjoyment of the fruits of the past period of life.

During the change of life, any latent weakness that had not been actively manifested previously may exhibit itself and at a time when the system is unprepared for the extra strain. Instead of displaying wisdom and seeking the actual cause, usually to be found in lack of exercise, indulgence in congesting foods, overwork, unsanitary conditions, unwholesome surroundings and sexual abuses, the menopause is blamed for it. Actually, menopause has nothing whatever to do with such weakness or suffering other than possibly furnishing an avenue for their manifestation.

The change of life should never be an occasion for fear and dread, but should rather be welcomed as an opportunity for greater peace and contentment; a deeper mental, physical, and spiritual satisfaction. If harmony has been established in the system, menopause will proceed normally and the body will enjoy freedom from many of its former weaknesses.

One fact cannot be too strongly impressed upon the mind of every woman, namely: if afflicted with what is usually termed "female weakness," she will suffer more or less during the change unless corrective measures are taken, and should hardly expect the change itself to be a cure-all, or the means of freeing her from such ailments. In fact, the change of life may even intensify the condition; establish chronic invalidism, hysterical, nervous or irrational moments with the result that life will be made miserable for her and all members of the family.

Recommendation: Immediately after it becomes apparent that the "change" is beginning or has commenced, a reliable physician should be consulted; blood count checked; blood pressure taken; cardiograph and a urinalysis made.
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Because of this need, a group of men and women organized The Humanitarian society, Reg., on a non-profit basis, offered a free advisory service to all who requested information on the following subjects:

1. The selection and combination of foods to eliminate physical weakness and maintain perfect health.

2. The prevention of sex diseases and the preservation of sex purity.

3. Instruction to both parents and youths in the Laws governing sex and the creation of babies much above the average in physical and mental perfection.

4. The education of prospective parents in methods and practices necessary to bring about an improvement in the human race as a whole.

This service was, and continues to be rendered on a voluntary basis. There were and are no requests for fees. All expenses were covered by donations on the part of the organizers, and contributions by those who volunteered their support in appreciation for the service rendered.

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