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so essential to the well-being of mankind can be 

 destructive to moral purity.'' 



Frances Willard once said : "When I was a girl, 

 for a woman to know very much about maternity 

 anc * 'heredity was enough to make her morals 

 questionable. Now, for the prospective mother 

 not to understand these things is known to be 

 criminal. What was deemed a vice under the 

 artificial light of false modesty, under the true 

 light of higher culture has become a virtue." The 

 better element of society no longer believes in 

 darkness and ignorance as a guide to virtue. All 

 are coming to realize that the highest order of 

 refinement, the purest virtue and the truest mod- 

 esty is most easily attained and sustained by those 

 best acquainted with the laws of life. 



In the study of parentage and heredity, we 

 should remember that through this sacred func- 

 tion immortal lives are born. By its sublime laws 

 all the great, gifted and holy men and women 

 Divinity is Here. of the past and present were brought into ex- 

 istence. Through these laws God expresses His 

 Divine will and stamps His decree upon human 

 life. Maternity is the creative office of Divinity, 

 sacred as humanity is sacred, holy as God is holy. 

 In the contemplation of this subject, shall we be 

 controlled by a false pride and refuse to study 

 these great truths? Shall we, the children of 

 light, prefer night rather than day? Shall we at 

 the dawn of the Twentieth Century, be bound by 

 the chains forged in the Dark Ages? Shall per- 

 verted desires blind our eyes to the light of truth ? 

 Shall we refuse to worship in the temples of our 

 God, because ignorance has defiled the temple? 



