47° POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



five, to a woman with a sound body about eighteen years of age, is 

 almost, if not the only, means of preserving the virtue of the rising 

 generation of men. People, and even mothers, speak lightly of their 

 daughters at twenty-six or twenty-seven marrying men who have sown 

 their wild oats; but one must reap what he sows and do they realize 

 what an awful misfortune such a harvest has brought to the char- 

 acter of the man, and will almost surely bring to the health of the 

 innocent woman? If one has any doubts on this subject they would 

 soon be set right by the testimony of any physician who has made a 

 specialty of attending men, or who has devoted his practise especially 

 to women. . 



Just as there are occasionally cases where a divorce becomes neces- 

 sary, but very much fewer than those actually granted, so, occasionally, 

 the life of an unborn child must be sacrificed to save the life of the 

 mother. But will anybody pretend for a moment that there is any 

 excuse for the two million of child-murders which is a fair estimate 

 of the number occurring annually on the North American continent? 

 The crime has become so general that public opinion has ceased to 

 condemn it, and among the few who do condemn it we certainly do 

 not find those women who claim that wifehood and motherhood are 

 degrading and should be reserved to the lowest class of the population. 

 It is well known that were it not for the enormous immigration 

 pouring into America day by day and week by week, the population 

 of this continent would have died out ere now. And it is generally 

 admitted that the original American people have almost died out. 

 Even the foreigners who are so quickly assimilated soon learn the 

 practise of race-suicide, although never to the appalling extent of 

 the native-born Americans. As far as my experience goes, the crime 

 is most prevalent among the highly educated classes, while it is 

 almost unknown among those with an ordinary education. 



Another way in which the higher education is making people 

 unhappy is in the cultivation of the powers of analysis and criticism. 

 When the power of analysis is applied to one's own self it is especially 

 unfortunate, for then it becomes introspection, a faculty which is 

 carried so far with some women that their whole life is spent in look- 

 ing into themselves, caring nothing for the trials or troubles of those 

 about them. This produces an intense form of egotism and selfish- 

 ness. These people are exceedingly unhappy, very often suffering from 

 what is wrongly called t nervous prostration,' but which should rather 

 be called ' nervous prosperity.' When the wonderful power of criticiz- 

 ing is applied to others it takes the form of fault-finding. Such a 

 woman must have many victims ; will she make them happy ? 



One of the greatest objections to the higher education of women, 

 namely, the interference with outdoor exercise, no longer can be raised, 



