442 PLAIN FACTS FOR OLD AND YOUNG 



A "Wonderful Process,— We have not space here 

 to mention all the wonderful structures of this human 

 machine, briefly described in the chapter entitled, ' ' The 

 Body Temple;" but must notice particularly one of its 

 most marvelous features, a provision by which other 

 human beings, living machines like itself, are pro- 

 duced. All living creatures possess this power. A 

 single potato placed in the ground becomes a dozen or 

 more, by a process of multiplying. A little seed planted 

 in the earth grows up to be a plant, produces flowers, 

 and from the flowers come other seeds,— not one, but 

 often a great many, sometimes hundreds from a single 

 seed. Insects, fishes, birds, and all other animals, thus 

 multijDly. So do human beings, and in a similar man- 

 ner. The organs by which this most marvelous process 

 is carried on in plants and animals, including also 

 human beings, are called sexual organs. Flowers are 

 the sexual organs of plants. 



Human Buds.— A curious animal which lives near 

 the seashore, in shallow water, attached to a rock like 

 a water plant, puts out little buds, which grow awhile 

 and then drop off, and after a time become large in- 

 dividuals like the parent, each in turn producing buds 

 like the one from which it grew. Human beings are 

 formed by a similar process. Human buds are formed 

 by an organ for the purpose possessed only by the 

 female sex, and these, under proper circumstances, de- 

 velop into infant human beings. The process, though 

 so simply stated, is a marvelously complicated one, 

 which cannot be fully explained here ; indeed, it is one 

 of the mysteries which is beyond the power of human 

 wisdom fully to explain. 



The production of these human buds is one of the 

 most important and sacred duties of woman. It is 



