WHAT FOKMS SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT MARRY. 



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By a right application of this law, those predisposed to 

 insanity may even improve their children by this parental 

 taint. 



If a man predisposed to consumption should marry a 

 worn u having extra good lungs, she will both supply him 

 with needed vitality, and also transmit good lungs to their 

 mutual children, who will inherit from him that mentality 

 which accompanies consumptive proclivities, superadded to 

 her abundant vitality, and thereby not only escape all con- 

 sumptive tendencies, but become actually improved in conse- 

 quence of the presence of this consumptive taint. 



By a judicious application of this law, all other hered- 

 itary ailments can be both obviated and even replaced with 

 excellent characteristics. All required is that where either 

 is weakly or unsound in any particular respect, the other 

 should be sound and vigorous in this same respect. Like 

 weaknesses in the other must by all means be scrupulously 

 avoided. 



Comb, in recommending those with hereditary predis- 

 positions to disease not to marry, is therefore wrong. All 

 such may marry provided they unite with those oppositely 

 constituted. Though actuated by the best of motives, yet 

 their partial views have prevented not only themselves but 

 many others from enjoying the domestic relations, who 

 otherwise might have been both happy in marriage and the 

 happy parents of healthy and highly endowed children. 



/Since few have well balanced minds or bodies, most 

 require to marry their opposites in one or more respects. 

 Almost all have too much brain for body, or body for brain, 

 or else too much or too little respiration, or digestion, or 

 circulation or muscle for their other physical functions. 

 Phrenology shows the necessity of this balance, how to pro- 

 mote it by cultivation, and also how to transmit it. 



What Forms Should and Should Not Marry. 

 Those who are medium in complexion, stature, etc., who 

 are neither extra dark or light, large or small, tall or short, 



