A Solemn Appeal - James White

therefore a burden. Children generally inherit the
peculiar traits of character which the parents
possess; and in addition to all this, many come up
without any redeeming influence around them.
They are too frequently huddled together in
poverty and filth. With such surroundings and
examples, what can be expected of the children
when they come upon the stage of action, but that
they will sink lower in the scale of moral worth
than their parents, and their deficiencies, in every
respect, be more apparent than theirs? Thus have
this class perpetuated their deficiencies, and cursed
their posterity with poverty, imbecility, and
degradation. These should not have married. At
least, they should not have brought innocent
children into existence to share their misery, and
hand down their own deficiencies, with
accumulating wretchedness, from generation to
generation. This is one great cause of the
degeneracy of the race.
If women of past generations had always
moved from high considerations, realizing that
future generations would be ennobled or debased
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