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The Choice of Parents 55
to regard such marriages as moral, while peo-
ple can transmit to their children all kinds of
intellectual mutilation and bodily unsound-
ness, and their parents continue to be called
honorable, so long will the world be without
the slightest conception of that morality which
will mould the new mankind.
This morality has still more exalted pre-
cepts. To-day it seldom happens that a
young girl enters marriage in ignorance, but
in my generation I know cases where the
ignorance of the bride resulted in insanity.
In another case this ignorance led to thoughts
of suicide; in a third, the child was regarded
with coldness by its mother; in the fourth,
the child had abnormal psychic qualities.
Still it is not sufficient for the ideal beauty
of marriage and the harmony of the child
that the woman knows in general what is
before her. A young man said once to me
that most marriages are spoilt at the very
beginning, because the man brings with him
the point of view and the habits of those
degraded women, from whom he has received
his initiation into love; frequently he annihi-
lates forever the tenderest element in his re-
lation to his wife. He damages the most
beautiful factor in their mutual feelings. Man
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