Human Physiology. 



and more integral life. When two parents are in their highest 

 condition, and in a true union with each other, the child com- 

 bines the best qualities of both parents. When parents are not 

 in th unity of a mutual love, the child may be inferior to 

 either parent. The intensity of mutual love tends to the repro- 

 duction of the best faculties of both parents in the child. When 

 men or women are exhausted or diseased the race deteriorates. 

 Health is therefore one of the conditions of progress. Free- 

 dom of choice and a wide range of choice may be a condition 

 of freedom is necessary to the formation of true marriage 

 unities. 



The force and material used in the evolution of germ and 

 foetus, are the same that develop the individual. In the 

 physical, moral, and intellectual development of the indi- 

 vidual, this force and matter this material of life may 

 be used up to the last particle; but there is a compensat- 

 ing reaction when every faculty gives of its material for the 

 generation and formation of the new being. Amative waste 

 comes from suspension oi individual development; therefore 

 chastity is the condition of individual progress, and the develop- 

 ment which it makes possible is the condition of the progress 

 of the race. In a true society reproduction will be the result 

 of high individual development, integral loves, and the desire 

 to combine the sum of such development. It will be the con- 

 scious integrality of life, and its resulting happiness, which will 

 seek perpetuation in new beings. In such a society the greatest 

 crime would be the reproduction of partial and discordant 

 beings. The love life is first to produce, and then reproduce. 

 Where waste, or reproduction, precede production, or individual 

 development, there is no progression in the individual or the 

 race. Both are wasted, deteriorated, and destroyed. 



" It is all very fine," I shall be told, " to talk of purity and 

 chastity; but we must take men as they are. How are you 

 going to make men pure and chaste, and respectful of the 



