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object better frustrated than attained! Judge can- 

 didly. 



We have carefully avoided any attempt to point 

 out the duty of a woman under the circumstances 

 named. That must be left for her to settle with her own 

 conscience after receiving due information. Some will 

 not hesitate to urge her to assert and maintain her 

 rights at all hazard. Should a woman feel in con- 

 science bound to do so, it would be the duty of every 

 moral person to support her ; for she has an undoubted 

 moral right, whether she chooses to exercise it or not. 



What to Do.— Now to the question as asked by 

 the first parties,— married people who together seek 

 for a solution of the difficulties arising from an aban- 

 donment of all protectives against fecundation. The 

 true remedy, and the natural one, is doubtless to be 

 found in the suggestion made under the heads of 

 ''Continence" and "Marital Excesses." By a course 

 of life in accordance with the principles there indi- 

 cated, all these evils and a thousand more would be 

 avoided. There would be less sensual enjoyment, but 

 more elevated joy. There would be less animal love, 

 but more spiritual communion; less grossness, more 

 purity; less development of the animal, and a more 

 fruitful soil for the culture of virtue, holiness, and all 

 the Christian graces. 



"But such a life would be impossible this side of 

 heaven," many exclaim. A few who have tried the 

 experiment think not. The Shakers claim to practice, 

 as well as teach, such principles; and with the potent 

 aids to continence previously specified, it might be 

 found less difficult in realization than in thought. 



Another suggestion, certainly beneficial to individual 

 health, is that the husband and wife should habitually 



