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" GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA" " ISLAM," 



disease in man, it must be of a similar cause for influence upon the 

 virgin brute through a first conception, for subsequent conceptions to 

 different males. Reproduction of life in man, is the same as with 

 the brute ; and as everything pertaining to life is of importance to 

 man, there should be no restraint upon a proper discussion of such 

 topic. 



The seed is life in man or beast ; it is blood. If we sow wheat that 

 is diseased, the crop will be diseased. If we plant smut corn, our field 

 will yield abundantly of smut corn. And so in the vegetable kingdom, 

 disease produces disease in the following crops. Life is life, whether 

 vegetable, animal, or human; and man was intended to study himself, 

 through observation and comparison ; with life largely subjected to his 

 will. The ground is mother-earth, and can become diseased so as to 

 bring forth diseased fruit. It partakes of the first seed planted in it, 

 to contribute in succeeding births, health or disease. 



Constitutional imperfections in the male may be absorbed by the 

 female, to be given out again and again in her produce to different 

 males. 



Although I had proven to myself thirty years ago, that the influence 

 of the first male upon the system of the female was such that she gave 

 of her constitutional impregnation to the get of other males, I still con- 

 tinued to search in old medical and scientific works for some treatise 

 upon the question. 



I had reasoned the matter out within myself, but wanted other 

 authority than my own by way of verification, and at last found it ; but 

 must repeat from memory. Although precisely my own conclusions, I 

 will not say to the reader, I am the man. 



Let every reader and every thinker remember that there is nothing 

 new under the sun, not even in the mind of man. 



One day, while in the office of a physician gifted in obstetrics and 

 female diseases or disorders, I found in his library a very old medical 

 and scientific work, dated in England in i 700, with extracts dating in 

 1 600. In it, the very subject which for so many years I had studied over, 

 was treated upon ; and opened to me the origin of the old English 

 cocker's saying of fifty years ago. The article was entitled, " The Influ- 

 ence of the Blood of the Male upon the Female in After-conceptions by 

 Different Males," and reasoned thus: 



First, the seed is life. In animal or human it is blood, but life: seed 

 first, blood second, then life. 



Here let me illustrate to such as will understand. Life is in the 



