Science of life : its principles, faculties, organs, temperaments, combinations, conditions, teachings, etc., etc. including love - its laws, power, etc. selection, or mutual adaptation courtship, marriage, etc. together with generation, hereditary endowment, paternity, maternity, bearing, nursing and rearing children as taught by phrenology and physiology / by O.S. Fowler.

Orson S. Fowler

Date:: [1875]

Credit: Science of life : its principles, faculties, organs, temperaments, combinations, conditions, teachings, etc., etc. including love - its laws, power, etc. selection, or mutual adaptation courtship, marriage, etc. together with generation, hereditary endowment, paternity, maternity, bearing, nursing and rearing children as taught by phrenology and physiology / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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women, however naturally good; while pure love.purities the WOrst—will convert rakes, rowdies, drunkards, brigands even, into good husbands, wives, citizens, saints. Behold all individual histories as confirming this great truth. What but morbid love makes or patronizes harlots'? That monster evil, sexual vice, is easily forestalled and cured by this means alone, but by no other. So is’ secret vice. All sexual ailments, as wTe shall •-prove, grow out of love perverted. Bight love will sweep with the besom of destruction into the ocean of oblivion all these, with all their kindred depravities and sufferings ; and they gone, what would be left ? Then superadd that good, pure, moral, normal action of all the Faculties imparted by “ love pure and undefiled,” and we have a millennium, individual and universal. This book surely will guide and keep love right. Now superadd its other great thought that— Creative conditions mainly “ foreordain ” whatever appertains -to every individual and thing.502, 519 Seeds, not soil, govern all they produce. G-ood or poor soil may make them grow faster or slower, and training flex them this way or that; yet the parental nature of each is the great predeterminer of all qualities, all functions. All this is doubly true of man. Children created by drinking parents must be constitutional drinkers; begotten in lust, must needs be sensualists “ dyed in the wool,” consuming them, selves and others during their short lives with erotic desires and diseases; “ begotten in sin and conceived in iniquity,” will sin on, suffer on, till stopped by death ; and thus of all other parental depravities ; yet those created while their parents are cultivating their talents and excellences will possess more than did their parents. Those created in purity and goodness will “ take to ” goodness as ducks to water: and so of badness. Fighting intem- perance as now is like fighting fire with brooms, spreading more than quenching. Preaching now affects few, little: but only let it show the damnable wickedness of impregnating children with lust, with alcoholic and narcotic cravings, with nervous violence, with rampant mercenary rascalities, with venereal poisons, with feeble- ness, with inflammations, &c.; let it pound fathers for neglecting ■or abusing their bearing wives, besides showing mothers how to manage themselves during this sacred period; let Doctors cut tlieir own professional throats by teaching their patients how to trip themselves free from sexual ailments ; let the press propagate these creative truths in papers, magazines, and volumes; let this o ] U1<|re<^ wor^:8 be circulated by millions, put by parents into children’s hands, studied and followed in choosing and living 'T^b conjUgai partners, and in the creation, carriage, and rearing of children; and society will need :io more penal laws, lawyers, judges, jailers, “policemen,” or “lock-ups because there will e no more tramps, burglars, drunkards, cheats, salary-grabbers, corrupt officials, Tweeds, rings, harlots or their patrons, or do-

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