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living of man and woman immoral, except
that which gives occasion to a weak offspring,
and produces bad conditions for the
development of their offspring. The Ten
Commandments on this subject will not be
prescribed by the founders of religion, but by
scientists.
Up to the present day, partly as a result
of a perverted modesty in such things, science
has only been able to offer incomplete observations
on the physical and psychical conditions
for the improvement of the human type in
its actual genesis.
Ontogeny is really a new science in our
century, introduced by Von Leeuwenhock, de
Graaf, and others. It was founded in 1827,
by von Baer. The differences of opinion
and the discovery of different theories are
very far from being ended. Purely scientific
points of view are being combined with social,
physiological, or ethical ones. It is maintained
that by changing the diet of the mother
the sex of the child can be determined.
Attempts have been made to show that about
three fifths of all men of genius were
first-born children.
People are studying what influence the age
of parents has on the child; extreme youth of
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