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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



Possibilities of 

 Motherhood. 



The Hope of 

 Science. 



less has its explanation in the susceptibility of the 

 foetus to suggestion. 



The susceptibility of the foetus to a sugges- 

 tion is demonstrated by every change that has 

 ever been wrought by maternal impressions. If 

 the psychologist can. stimulate the mental power 

 and by repeated treatment gradually develop the 

 areas of his subject's brain, why cannot a mother, 

 by the intelligent application of this same law, 

 stimulate and control the forming brain of her 

 offspring and thereby modify its character at 

 will? If brain areas can be affected by repeated 

 suggestions in the matured subject, how much 

 more potential must be a suggestion on a brain 

 that is just forming? To my mind this is the 

 most promising field for experimental psychology. 

 It seemingly affords an unlimited means for im- 

 proving offspring. 



As God in His infinite wisdom saw fit to use 

 woman to bear His son and give Him to the 

 world to save men, so science will yet employ a 

 consecrated motherhood to give to the race the 

 elements of genius, the principles of virtue, and 

 the basis of a noble character. 



