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ask you if any man in this room, having a manly boy coming 

 forward in life ever regretted for one single moment that the 

 woman upon whom that boy's affections were becoming fixed, 

 who was having a good influence upon him, and keeping him 

 out of difficulty and danger, — I say, did any father ever regret, 

 before the magnetism of all those great moral influences which 

 he saw going on, that that woman was not, physically, adapted 

 to that boy? I do not believe there is a father here who ever 

 thought of such a thing. You cannot th'ink of it, my friends. 

 You may sometimes, as you go on in life, wish it had been a 

 little otherwise, but when you are going down tlio valley, and. 

 come to that point to which Mr. Collyer referred last night, 

 where the sweetness and tenderness between man and wife are 

 superior to the affection between lovers when they began to 

 climb the hill, then you lose all regard for those animal laws 

 which you lay down for your stables and your farms, and you 

 recognize once more the superiority of man in the great scale of 

 being. 



Gentlemen,! beg you to excuse me for making these remarks, 

 but I thought this was a proper place to put them in. I have 

 presented them to you because I wanted you to be encouraged. 

 Do not for one moment think that the race is dying out through 

 mjjdesty or misplaced affection. It is not. You cannot kill it. 



Mr. Goodman. I want to say one word, because this is a 

 question vital to our race. The point I want to bring out is 

 this: that while our pulpits are complaining of the secret wick- 

 edness that is going on by abortions, arising in great measure 

 from the dread, on the part of women, of the suffering attendant 

 upon parturition, I think it is important that, if possible, 

 they should be instructed what to do to prevent the pangs and 

 pains tliey suffer at that time. Our houses are flooded now with 

 the advertisements of men and women who profess to prevent 

 the getting of ciiildren ; who undertake to allow married women . 

 to live in licentiousness, by furnishing the means to destroy 

 their offspring before birth, and thus hide their guilt from pub- 

 lic view. I say that one of the great incitements to this gross 

 wickedness is the great suffering which women undergo in 

 childbirth ; and I apprehend that it can be demonstrated that by 

 proper diet, exercise and care, our women can be relieved of a 

 great deal of this suffering, as animals can. 



