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so The Century of the Child
a bad inheritance, partly in other spheres of
morahty as in the following examples:
A young man, himself a physician, thought
he was healthy when he married. He discov-
ered his mistake and found himself confronting
the choice of wronging his wife or separating
from her. As they were deeply in love, the
only possible way was separation. He chose
death which he inflicted on himself in such a
way that his wife thought it was caused by
accident.
Another man acted in the same way after
he had been married several years and had
three children; he found out that he was his
wife’s half-brother.
But these incidents as the one before men-
tioned, where women are concerned, are
notoriously only isolated examples. It will
require the development of several generations
before it will be the woman’s instinct, an ir-
resistibly mastering instinct, to allow no
physically or psychically degenerated or per-
verted man to become the father of her chil-
dren. The instinct of the man is far stronger
in this direction, but it is dulled too by an
antiquated legal conception, according to
which the woman must subject herself as a
duty to requirements against which her whole
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