o victimize her person to it the moment he shall get the
license. A woman had better die at once than enter into or continue in
marriage with a man whose highest conception of the relation is, that it is
a means of licensed animal indulgence. In such a relation, body and soul
are sacrificed.

7. ONE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTIC of a true and noble husband is a feeling
of manly pride in the physical elements of his manhood. His physical
manhood, as well as his soul, is dear to the heart of his wife, because
through this he can give the fullest expression of his manly power. How can
you, my friend, secure for your person the loving care and respect of your
wife? There is but one way: so manifest yourself to her, in the hours of
your most endearing intimacies, that all your manly power shall be
associated only with all that is generous, just and noble in you, and with
purity, freedom and happiness in her. Make her feel that all which
constitutes you a man, and qualifies you to be her husband and the father
of her children, belongs to her, and is sacredly consecrated to the
perfection and happiness of her nature. Do this, and the happiness of your
home is made complete. Your _body_ will be lovingly and reverently cared
for, because the wife of your bosom feels that it is the sacred symbol
through which a noble, manly love is ever speaking to her, to cheer and
sustain her.

8. WOMAN IS EVER PROUD, and justly so, of the manly passion of her husband,
when she knows it is controlled by a love for her, whose manifestations
have regard only to her elevation and happiness. The power which, when bent
only on selfish indulgence, becomes a source of more shame, degradation,
disease and wretchedness, to {262} women and to children than all other
things put together, does but ennoble her, add grace and glory to her
being, and concentrate and vitalize the love that encircles her as a wife
when it is controlled by wisdom and consecrated to her highest growth and
happiness, and that of her children. It lends enchantment to her person,
and gives a fascination to her smiles, her words and her caresses, which
ever breathe of purity and of heaven, and make her all lovely as a wife and
mother to her husband and the father of her child. _Manly passion is to the
conjugal love of the wife like the sun to the rose-bud, that opens its
petals, and causes them to give out their sweetest fragrance and to display
their most delicate tints; or like the fr