A Solemn Appeal - James White

they would have understood that their
constitutional strength, as well as the tone of their
morals, and their mental faculties, would in a great
measure be represented in their offspring. Their
ignorance upon this subject, where so much is
involved, is criminal. Many women never should
have become mothers. Their blood was filled with
scrofula, transmitted to them from their parents,
and increased by their gross manner of living.
The intellect has been brought down and
enslaved to serve the animal appetite, and children,
born of such parents, have been poor sufferers, and
of but little use to society.
It has been one of the greatest causes of
degeneracy in generations back, up to the present
time, that wives and mothers who otherwise would
have had a beneficial influence upon society, in
raising the standard of morals, have been lost to
society through multiplicity of home cares, because
of the fashionable, healthdestroying manner of
cooking, and also in consequence of too frequent
child-bearing. She has been compelled to needless
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