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Th.e Choice of Parents 53
But they must also know that it is a stall
greater transgression of their duty if the life
of a child is called forth with cold hearts and
cold temper, whether this happens in a mar-
riage based on worldly motives or one
maintained on moral grounds in which the
previously existing discord is transmitted to a
new being.
Mothers made apathetic and unresponsive,
by the consciousness of numerous breaches of
faith, towards their youthful dreams, their
ideal convictions, are often precisely those,
who in their children, struggle against the
pure instincts of love, its chaste and strong
feelings, its higher aims. They often teach
that love as a rule ends after marriage, that
marriages can be made without love. This
is a process of thought resembling the con-
clusion that a vessel can quite well go into
the sea with some defect, since it is possible
in any event that it will be damaged. They
speak of the impurity of the senses, of the
advantages of a marriage based on friendship
and reason, of the calming power of duty. All
of these are chilly processes of reason by
which souls, filled with the warmth of life,
are killed. Daughters must be helped by
their mothers, wisely and delicately, in order
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