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The Choice of Parents 57
partially, can change the deepest feeling. All
these mystic influences, the tender woof of all
these fine threads, will then be a part of the
living fabric of the child. These secret pro-
cesses explain the great differences between
children of the same parents,—children who
externally are born and brought up in quite
similar conditions.
In all these promptings of instinct, in all
these categorical imperatives of the nerves
and the blood, human beings must be at
the same time obedient listeners and strict
masters. On this depends the future happi-
ness of love, and with it a happier future
race.
The people of to-day live under inherited
morals and newly acquired transgressions of
morality. Both must be conquered before
soul and sense in love can become inseparable,
or in other words, before this unity is recog-
nised as the only possible moral basis of the
relation between man and woman.
Talented men, as well as one-sided advocates
of women’s rights, think that the development
will take quite a different course, after the
low impulse which is at the basis of love has
been laid bare and scientifically analysed.
They say that the superior person will satisfy
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