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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$have a tliousand-fold more for which to thank and love their parents than those badly created though left wealthy. Suppose only a special permit could confer it, and on payment of stipulated sums, how much could you well afford to pay for it? If you had amassed a fortune, or established a name among men tor anything meritorious, or become a king, and the possessor of this transmitting secret should say, “ Pay me well and I will enable you to produce another human being, the very image of yourself in every possible respect — bones, muscles, looks, ways, desires, tastes, feelings, thoughts, even modes of speech, the very counterpart of your own dear self, and permit, you to superadd the characteristics of that sexual mate you love as you do your own life, making the product a perfect amalgam of you both; ” and gave you ample proof; the more you reflected the more you would be willing to give for such a capacity. You would reason thus:— “I must die, and can carry with me nothing of all my wealth, social position, or advantages. All must become utterly useless to me the mo- ment I breathe my last; which may be soon. I can therefore well afford to give half I possess, yes, all but a moiety, if I can obtain it no cheaper, just for this power to transmit this moiety, not to a stranger, but to one of my own flesh and blood; one whom I could not help loving as I love mv- sef, because my own obvious counterpart throughout, so that self-love must inspire love for it. The more so since it must also be the most per- fect souvenir or memento possible, and most delightful reminder of the only one I love, in the constant outgushing of those qualities I so idolize How utterly insignificant are all other values in comparison with this f , ay, it I must mortgage my best exertions for the balance of my life in order to obtain so great a talent, I shall ev'en then be an infinite gainer, and could justly exult over childless kings ” Most precious and exalted, then, is this parental capacity and tW/T G’ b°th in and of itself’ in creative, and all its whl Un?tl0n8\ 0f a]1_the phenomena, all the wonders of this its JitwVei''<3 tb*s is tPe most wonderful in its certainty, therewith^w’d?3 ^ pMlosoph^ everything connected 2xu!t forn' • 6 • angels ponder over its mysteries, and wonder ofTn'V'^ V® beauties and beneficence. Is life the notthi9it9ori*inator-» As inly instrum^i l!r bare paTamount> and <» this is their tenLte Wash^f’ 0,1 d “ n°‘ honored ? Shall we & on, and not likewise his parents ? Could ho$

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