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phosphorous poisonings, “angel-making”—all
these are connected with these perverse legal
ideas. But all of these results are still less
pernicious than those which society draws
upon itself through those “disgraced” children,
who go to ruin not physically but
psychically. In them, there are not only
frequently good powers lost, but socially
destructive powers developed. When the whole
of Europe shuddered over the murder of the
Empress Elizabeth, one fact above every
other seemed to me terrible. The murderer
confessed, “I know nothing of my parents.”
The time will come in which the child will
be looked upon as holy, even when the parents
themselves have approached the mystery
of life with profane feelings; a time in which
all motherhood will be looked upon as holy,
if it is caused by a deep emotion of love, and
if it has called forth deep feelings of duty.
Then the child, who has received its life
from sound, loving human beings and has been
afterwards brought up wisely and lovingly,
will be called legitimate, even if its parents
have been united in complete freedom. Then
will the child, who has been born in a loveless
marriage, and has been burdened by the fault
of its parents with bodily or mental disease,
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