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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Power of Initial 

 Impressions* 



Effects of Tran- 

 sient States. 



An Editor's 

 Daughter. 



A White Sheep 

 in a Black Flock. 



laws of heredity, is traced most easily where 

 morbid conditions are transmitted; but fortu- 

 nately it is quite as potential in the production of 

 desirable qualities. Unusual excitement of the 

 social, intellectual or religious powers in parents 

 just prior to the inception of the new life fre- 

 quently produce in the child corresponding tend- 

 encies. 



Fowler tells of a mother who conceived after 

 she and her husband had spent a most pleasant 

 day and evening in company with friends; the 

 child became a charming young woman, highly 

 sociable, who made friends easily and was a 

 great favorite. A boy who was conceived just 

 after the parents had attended the last of a 

 course of lectures that had 'proved a great intel- 

 lectual feast to them, was quite superior to his 

 brothers intellectually. One of the most bril- 

 liant women of the South was born from thought- 

 ful parents who took special pains to awaken the 

 intellectual and dramatic powers in their natures 

 prior to the inception of her life. An editor in 

 Oakland, California, who had an exceptionally 

 bright and promising daughter, assured me that 

 her strongest talents were in line with those most 

 active in her parents prior to conception. I have 

 known of several children who were conceived 

 while the parents were under great religious or 

 spiritual excitement, that early manifested strong 

 religious tendencies, while other children born 

 from the same parents, the inception of whose 

 lives occurred when the religious emotions were 

 unawakened or passive, manifested but little re- 

 ligious feeling. Considered as isolated cases the 



