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HEREDITY. 



Discernment of 

 Adaptation. 



ly feminine, discord prevails and their children 

 Masculine are seldom, if ever, well born. The truly mascu- 



Womenand t . ' .,. r 



Feminine Men. line man cannot endure a positive, masculine wo- 

 man; while a truly feminine woman abhors an 

 effeminate man; therefore, sex adaptation re- 

 quires that the husband and wife shall form the 

 counterpart or complement of each other. 



The degree of masculinity and femininity in 

 any given person is difficult to determine, but the 

 following suggestions will serve as a guide, both 

 in estimating the strength of the sex attribute and 

 the degree of adaptability between any given pair : 

 ( i ) The truly masculine man and feminine wo- 

 man are invariably attractive, magnetic, emo- 

 tional, ardent, affectionate, responsive and highly 

 agreeable to the opposite sex. Their company 

 is always in demand. The way in which they will 

 express their affections and the class of people 

 they will attract, or be attracted to, will of course 

 be determined by other qualities in their disposi- 

 tions and their conditions in life; but whether 

 refined or gross, cultured or illiterate, they will 

 wield an influence that those wanting in this at- 



Family Resem- . . _ T _ , 1 



blances a Key to tribute never can. (2) Women who resemble 

 Adaptation. t j ie j r f a ^hers are usually but not always mas- 

 culine, and therefore should marry men who re- 

 semble their mothers, and vice versa. In hun- 

 dreds of observations made I do not ^recall a 

 single instance where the husband and wife both 

 strongly resembled the father or both the mother 

 in which the union was truly happy or their chil- 

 dren really well born. 



Soul harmony is the most important factor of 

 parental adaptation. Lying back of all physical 



