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and retain tlicir condition imclianged wherever they may be. 

 Man is the only defiant animal on the face of this earth. You 

 may put hitn at the nortli pole or the south pole, take him from 

 here and put him under the equator, transport him into the 

 most miasmatic marshes on the face of this earth, he is a man 

 still; you cannot break him down, neither to any considerable 

 extent can you change his conformation, somewhat by races 

 you can, not always by locality. God has planted certain races 

 to dwell here upon the face of the earth, adapted to the localities 

 in which they live, it is true ; but there is no locality which 

 man cannot defy and in which he cannot retain .his natural 

 condition. 



Now, my friends, standing here as a representative of this 

 triumphant race, I am perfectly free to bury the whole question 

 of human reproduction beneath our innate modesty ; beneath 

 those affections which bind us to each other, to our wives, to 

 our sweethearts, "to our daughters, in a way entirely unknown 

 to any other representative of the animal kingdom on the face 

 of this great globe. I am willing to acquiesce in it ; I am ready 

 to recognize the fact, that between us and our mates differences 

 exist, and superior influences, to which we all are obedient, and 

 in obedience to which we recognize the great law which in the 

 beginning made them male and female, and gave every man but 

 one wife. 



It is on this ground that I have always been a little sensitive 

 with regard to exposing those questions with which we deal by 

 ourselves to our friends of the other sex. I don't know but I 

 have been a little too sensitive. I do not find any fault at all. 

 In fact, I am willing that every man should travel his own track. 

 I find no fault with those who differ from me, but still, I do 

 insist upon it, that we have a right to recognize the fact, that we 

 do stand in a superior scale in the whole animal kingdom, and 

 we have a right to be controlled by our finest sensibilities, by 

 our highest moral natures, and by our most heavenly affections, 

 in our treatment of this whole matter. You who heard the 

 lecture last night, know how eloquently the distinguished gen- 

 tleman dwelt upon those feelings which brought the distinguished 

 poet, Robert jjurns, and his little friend who was reaping with 

 him the harvest over in Scotland together, so that their hearts 

 became one. You know well what I mean by what I say. I 



