174 MARRIAGE AND DISEASE. 



too rapidly as it is. Why, then, should the deformed 

 and unfinished be tempted to add to the struggling 

 throng creatures who must sink by the wayside in 

 the fierce struggle for existence ? Rather let them 

 be taught the beauty of self-denial, and be induced 

 to refrain from entailing upon others the afflictions 

 which have fallen upon themselves from no fault of 

 their own. 



