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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Children 

 Superior to 

 Parents. 



What Prenatal 

 Culture Would 

 Do. 



Heredity Should 

 be Popularized. 



cally trained with the result that the children were 

 far superior to either parent. The parents in 

 their humble way were justly proud of their chil- 

 dren. All the five were hale and hearty and had 

 never required the attendance of a physician. 

 They were exceptionally apt in study and were 

 seemingly well endowed in the feelings and moral 

 sentiments. As I studied these little folks and ob- 

 served their physical development, bright eyes 

 and happy natures bubbling over with sunshine 

 and gladness, I felt like taking the whole fam- 

 ily along with me to show to the world what even 

 simple minded parents may do by living in ac- 

 cordance with nature's laws. 



Illustrations of the effects of prenatal training 

 might be multiplied indefinitely, but the fore- 

 going are sufficient to indicate some of its pos- 

 sibilities. What one family, nay what many have 

 done, others may do. All children might be, and 

 should be, superior to their parents. If the laws 

 of heredity and prenatal culture were studied and 

 applied, each generation would be better born 

 than the preceding one. 



The study of heredity should be popularized. 

 The college, the pulpit, and the press should 

 herald it. Children have rights that parents 

 should recognize from the hour of inception. 

 They have the right to be well born, and who- 

 ever denies them this right is guilty of a crime 

 that nature will not let go unpunished. Parents 

 have no more right to neglect or abuse a child 

 prenatally than postnatally. Reformers and edu- 

 cators have much to say about early postnatal 

 influences. Why not begin at the beginning? 



