s for the insane
asylum or the institute for nervous patients. And that is called
religion and morality!

(_d_) A heavily tainted couple, desperately enamored of each other,
came to me in great distress to ask: "May we get married?" I answered:
"It does not strike me as being the wisest thing for you to do. But if
you cannot exist without each other, by all means get married; but
think what a calamity it would be, if two beings tainted as you both
are, were to beget offspring." "But we are so fond of children."
"Well, that is easily mended. There are plenty of healthy orphans
whose parents were strong and sound both in body and in mind, but who
are strangers to a father's and mother's love, and are craving for a
good education. Make your own choice, but take only the very best.
Then you will have a family and enjoy all the pleasures of parenthood.
As for the rest, heed my advice. Avoid pregnancy."

The law of heredity winds like a red thread through the family history
of every criminal, of every epileptic, eccentric and insane person.
And we should sit still and witness our civilization go into decay and
fall to pieces without raising the cry of warning and applying the
remedy?

However, this is by no means all. Tuberculosis is the white plague of
to-day. It is considered an established fact that every living human
being inhales and swallows tubercle bacilli by the millions every day,
and it is even claimed that every one of us harbors somewhere in the
economy this dreadful poison to a larger or smaller degree. Whilst the
pure, immune blood in a sound, robust constitution is able to resist
the inroads of, and even to kill, sterilize, and eliminate these
bacilli, the weaker and hereditarily tainted individual falls a prey
to the attacks of this dire disease by the thousands. True, serum
therapy and open-air treatment are accomplishing many cures, but the
hereditary disposition remains in the system all the same, and may be
transmitted to the coming generation, or at any rate may impair the
power of resistance in the offspring.

Moreover, the sexual appetite is very pronounced in phthisical
patients. They marry and beget children in the most wanton fashion.
The law cannot and does not prevent them, and the carnal instinct is
not to be killed. What is to be done when law and religion forbid the
application of preventive measures and even prosecute the person that
recommends them?

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