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dreams of the young man and maiden differ." The development of either is
in close sympathy with their organs of reproduction. Any defect of the
latter impairs our fair ideal, and detracts from those qualities which
impart excellence, and crown the character with perfections. Plainly has
Nature marked out, in the organization, very different offices to be
performed by the sexes, and has made these distinctions fundamental.

Likewise, Nature expresses the intention of reproduction by giving to
plants and animals distinctive organs for this purpose. These are
endowed with exquisite sensibility, so that their proper exercise
produces enjoyment beneficial to both. Excessive sexual indulgence not
only prostrates the nervous system, enfeebles the body, and drains the
blood of its vivifying elements, but is inconsistent with intellectual
activity, morality, and spiritual development. The most entrancing
delights and consummate enjoyments are of the emotive order, ideal,
abstract, and pure, so inspiring that they overpower the grosser sensual
pleasures and diffuse their own sweet chastity and refining influence
over all the processes of life.

Hence, the gratification of the sexual instincts should always be
moderate. It should be regulated by the judgment and will, and kept
within the bounds of health. No person has a moral right to carry this
indulgence so far as to produce injurious consequences to either party,
and he who cannot refrain from it is in no proper condition to propagate
his species. In all culture there must be self-control, and the practice
of self-denial at the command of love and justice is always a virtue.
Self-government is the polity of our people, and we point with pride and
laudable exultation to our political maxims, laws, and free
institutions. The family is the prototype of society. If self-restraint
be practiced in the marital relation, then the principle of self-control
will carry health, strength, and morality into all parts of the
commonwealth. The leading characteristics of any nation are but the
reflection of the traits of its individual members, and thus the family
truly typifies the practical morality and enduring character of a
people.

OVULATION.

The _Ovaries_ are those essential parts of the generative system of the
human female in which the ova are matured. There are two ovaries, one on
each side of the uterus, and connected with it by the Fallopian tubes;
they are ovoidal bodi