Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty.
- Orson S. Fowler
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![are capable of earing for th. —concentric en of course, incluu- it is here o: . u woman i inly adopt by nature to become a wife, quite as much be mother. Aye. but a i solely that she may become a mother. :iilosophy of love and matri- mony b in. and appertains to, propagation, k these delicate attentions, and pure and exquisite feelings of oneness and love, are instituted for the express pur- pose of fitting and inclining them to become parents. Nature brines them together in wedlock, solely that they may unite in propagation. Nature's only end in instituting love is propagation, just as much as the ulti- mate end of eating is nourishment. Neither love nor marriage have any other natural adaptation. They are not primary institutes of nature, but secondary to that one end of both the masculine and the feminine crea- tion—namely, the continuance of the race. Fair reader, pout and poh at this institute of nature as you will, it is nevertheless true, and you know and feel it. It accords with your inner consciousness, as |] as your perception of adaptation. And you may well admit this point first as last—may as well know what your natural destiny is, that you may know h and be fitting yourself, to fulfill it. I have not rashly put forth this principle. On the contrary, it lias bur- dened my mind for years, and is one of only two points which I hardlv dared to brine forward. The other will ■ forthcoming in due time—my moral courage b> ready for the sac soon as time and strength will permit me to present it effectually. Pfoi have I broil ih this view of woman's desti- to l<>wer her in the scale but to elevate her; for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024273_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
