216 PRENATAL CULTURE. 



tal emotions do influence the development of the 

 child must be answered : Yes !" 



Mr. A. E. Newton, author of "Prenatal Cul- 

 ture," says, "The human embryo is formed and 

 developed in all its parts, even to the minutest 

 detail, by and through the action of the vital, 

 mental and spiritual forces of the mother, which 

 forces act in and through the corresponding por- 

 tions of her own organism. And while this process 

 may go on unconsciously, or without the mother's 

 voluntary participation or direction * * * 

 yet she may consciously and purposely so direct 

 Newton on Pre- her activities as > with a good degree of certainty, 

 natal Culture, to accomplish specifically desired ends in deter- 

 mining the traits and qualities of her offspring. 

 In other words, it would seem to be within the 

 mother's power, by the voluntary and intelligent 

 direction of her own forces, in orderly systematic 

 methods, to both mold the physical form to lines 

 of beauty and shape the mental, moral and spir- 

 itual features of her child to an extent to which 

 no limit can be assigned." 



Mr. C. T. Bayer, in his treatise on "Maternal 

 Impressions," observes, "The influence of the 

 mind of a prospective mother upon her child be- 

 na\ y ipreSo!S" fore its birth is of tremendous importance to its 

 active existence as a member of society, from the 

 fact that it lies in that mother's power to shape 

 its mentality, that it may be a power for good or 

 for evil. * * * Upon all other questions per- 

 taining to the welfare and improvement of hu- 

 manity the search-light of science has been turned, 

 but this most important of all subjects has been 

 comparatively ignored, and young men and wo- 



