The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service.
- United States Public Health Service
- Date:
- [1933]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The wonderful story of life : a mother's talks with her daughter regarding life and its reproduction / reprinted by the British Social Hygiene Council ... by permission of the United States Public Health Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which we eat for breakfast or dinner have already provided for the little fishes which will take their places ; how the birds arrange so that there will always be birds to come to us in the springtime ; and how your little baby brother and you yourself, Helen Elizabeth, came to be born. This story of reproduction, as we call it, is a wonderful and beautiful story. It is beautitul because it tells about living things which, we have agreed, are among the most beautiful things in the world. It is wonderful because it tells about won- derful things. Men have made many marvellous inventions, like automobiles and steamships and airplanes ; but they have never been able to invent anything so wonderful as the simplest little plant or animal which may reproduce itself. Yet unless God had given all living things this power to reproduce, plants and animals and men would long ago have disappeared from the earth. That is why we say this story is not only beautiful and wonderful ; it is sacred. About sacred things we do not talk lightly. We do not talk about them with other children, for many children do not know how wondertul and beautiful this story of the reproduction of life is. But you may talk about it freely with your father and me. We are always meady—yes, anxious— to help you understand and will always answer your questions as well as we can. [8]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32172060_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
