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The Choice of Parents 49
their duty rather to abstain from marriage
than to transmit their unfortunate inherit-
ence to a new generation. I knew a woman
in whose family on her father’s and mother’s
side, mental disease was inherited. There-
fore, though healthy herself, she refused
to marry the man she loved. I know of an-
other who broke her engagement, because she
was convinced that the man whom she loved
was a drinker, and she did not want to give her
children such a father. It is especially on
this point that women sin in marrying from
ignorance, because they do not know that
epilepsy and other diseases, especially alcohol-
ism, are often caused because the child has
had a drunkard for a father. A young woman
could have no more certain test for the con-
tinuance of her feelings for a man, than
whether she feels exalted joy or tormenting
distress, at the thought of seeing his charac-
teristics transmitted to their child.
Men sin against the coming race not only
by excessive drinking, but in other respects
where the results are still more destructive.
Besides the conscience of men must begin
to awaken. This will express itself partly in
the requirement to abstain from marriage
when they know that they have to transmit
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