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The Choice of Parents 51
being revolts. In this respect a woman has
only one duty, an unmistakable one, against
which every transgression is a sin, namely
that the new being to which she gives life,
must be born in love and purity, in health and
beauty, in full mutual harmony, in a complete
common will, in a complete common happi-
ness. Until women see this as a duty, the
earth will continue to be peopled by beings,
who in a moment of their existence have been
robbed of the best pre-conditions of their life’s
happiness and their life’s efficiency. Occa-
sionally they show plainly at an early age the
sign of degeneration or of discord. Occasion-
ally they seem for a long time to be healthy
and powerful specimens of humanity, until
in some critical moment they go to pieces
through an insufficient supply of physical
and psychical vitality caused by their very
origin.
As to marriages between healthy and active
individuals, legislation can do nothing. Ethics
alone can exert an influence for betterment.
Children must be taught from their earliest
years about their existence and their future
duties as men and women. So mothers and
fathers together can impress on the conscience
of the children not any abstract conception
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