le sex, that they believe every woman at every
moment capable of what they themselves have looked for among all and have
found among the most unfortunate, the prostitutes. No libertine can believe
in the purity of woman; it is contrary to nature. A libertine therefore
cannot believe in the loyalty of a faithful wife.

7. WHEN JUSTIFIABLE.--There may be occasions where jealousy is justifiable.
If a woman's confidence has been shaken in her husband, or a husband's
confidence has been shaken in his wife by certain signs or conduct, which
have no other meaning but that of infidelity, then there is just cause for
jealousy. There must, however, be certain proof as evidence of the wife's
or husband's immoral conduct. Imaginations or any foolish absurdities
should have no consideration whatever, and let everyone have confidence
until his or her faith has been shaken by the revelation of absolute facts.

8. CAUTION AND ADVICE.--No couple should allow their associations to
develop into an engagement and marriage if either one has any inclination
to jealousy. It shows invariably a want of sufficient confidence, and that
want of confidence, instead of being diminished after marriage, is liable
to increase, until by the aid of the imagination and wrong interpretation
the home is made a hell and divorce a necessity. Let it be remembered,
there can be no true love without perfect and absolute confidence. Jealousy
is always the sign of weakness or madness. Avoid a jealous disposition, for
it is an open acknowledgment of a lack of faith.

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The Improvement of Offspring.

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Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics?

[Illustration: The Mother's Good Night Prayer.]

1. THE RIGHT WAY.--When mankind will properly love and marry and then
rightly generate, carry, nurse and educate their children, will they in
deed and in truth carry out {223} the holy and happy purpose of their
Creator. See those miserable and depraved scape-goats of humanity, the
demented simpletons, the half-crazy, unbalanced multitudes which infest our
earth, and fill our prisons with criminals and our poor-houses with
paupers. Oh! the boundless capabilities and perfections of our God-like
nature and, alas! its deformities! All is the result of the ignorance or
indifference of parents. As long as children are the accidents of lust
instead of the premeditated objects of love, so long