HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
A Course of Instructions on the Right Use of Sex 
Sty R. SWINBURNE CLYMER 
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Graduate College of Medicine and Surgery 1902. Ad eundem 1911 
Author of "Dietetics," "American Volunteer Diet-Cook Book," etc 
Copyrighted 1919. All Rights Reserved. 
Published By 
PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 
"Beverly Hall" 
Quakertown, Pa. INTRODUCTORY 
This volume goes forth without apology. 
Excuses are necessary only under two conditions: In case 
of mistakes, or where one has foisted upon the public something 
uncalled for. Neither of these conditions apply to the author 
or this book. 
The instructions found herein have been tested. After an 
experiment of eighteen years we pronounce them sound and 
practical. The members and workers of the Rose Cross Aid, 
in their many sessions, have added their approval and com- 
mendation. This society, taking a leading part in our Recon- 
struction work, requested that these lessons be put into book 
form. Through the generosity of Rev. A. W. Witt, this has been 
made financially possible. 
From an unlimited experience in dealing with thousands 
of men and women sexually weak or disabled, we are in a posi- 
tion to state positively that sex truths should be taught to every 
human being. A knowledge of the use (and abuse) of the sex 
nature is imperative to right living. We have been asked count- 
less times: "Why do you not write a book, not for students of 
sexology, but for the masses, in the plain language you use 
with us? You would confer a favor on humanity if you would." 
We select two reasons, out of many for the publication of 
this book, and outline them briefly here: 
First: The increasing prevelancy of the insidious argu- 
ments in favor of continence. We feel a positive duty in refuting 
this monstrous doctrine. To illustrate a single point in this 
matter we quote from a noted writer and advocate of this un- 
desirable practice: "It is scarcely necessary to say that all testi- 4 
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mony concure in forbidding indulgence during gestation * * 
* * * The fact that fecundation would be impossible during 
pregnancy, and that during this period the female, normally, 
has no sexual desire, are other powerful arguments in favor of 
perfect continence at this time." 
This superficial argument, seemingly true, is far from being 
so. Such statements will not bear careful investigation. In our 
varied and extensive practice we have been able to get facts 
"first hand" and ninety per cent of the women questioned ad- 
mitted that sexual embrace was a necessity during pregnancy; 
that in the cases where the husbands failed to agree with them 
they often passed sleepless nights. This sex hunger undoubt- 
edly makes a deep, undesirable impression upon the unborn 
child and who can say that some of the abnormal conditions 
found in children are not the result of such conditions ? 
We would not for a moment advocate sexual contact in all 
cases during the period of pregnancy. It depends upon the 
nature of the individual woman. But we do state emphatically 
that a normal condition should be treated in a normal manner; 
that is, a normal desire should be fulfilled. When the love 
nature of a pregnant woman is aroused sexual embrace should 
be indulged in without question. She is none the less a wife 
because motherhood confronts her. 
We are at variance with the whole idea of the so-called 
sublimity of the continent life. Nothing could be more absurd. 
Our basic claim is that a woman who has lived a continent life 
cannot have fulfilled the best and highest in her; that unknown 
and unawakened powers dwell within her. Once in a while we 
find a woman who has loved sincerely and deeply and been de- 
prived of the object of that love thru no fault of her own. The 
shock of the loss deadened the love nature completely, and to 
her the sexual embrace would be loathsome, in fact, a prostitu- 
tion. Such a woman can turn her energy into another line of 
creation-that of work, for example, and live a successful life. 
But a case like this is an exception to prove the rule, for not HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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one woman in fifty thousand has a deadened love nature from 
such a cause. Where they are following the continent life they 
are merely suppressing. 
The second reason for the publication of this book: The 
necessity of sex instruction to every human being. A personal 
experience may illustrate the point. 
On Thursday, August 9, 1917, a woman in this vicinity 
was taken in travail and a physician summoned. The child was 
born before he arrived. No provision had been made for the 
care of the mother or the reception of the baby. Not a stitch of 
clothing had been prepared, not even a band. 
The doctor found the woman lying on an old mattress 
of straw, some of which had fallen through the rents on to the un- 
carpeted floor. Not only the bed and covering, but the entire 
room was in a state of filthiness difficult to describe. 
Assuming charge of this unhappy, disgusting situation, 
the physician asked for a towel. Not one could be found, and 
on being proffered a dirty piece of cloth, he was forced to 
abandon precaution and take care of the patient with unwashed 
hands rather than risk infection from the use of the rags. 
The confinement taking place in the evening there was only 
one thing to do-wrap up the child in some old clothing and 
allow it to remain in that condition until morning. 
The physician having to devote the next day to examination 
of conscripts, we were requested to take charge of the case. We 
found the woman, normal and seemingly happy, and the child 
just as it had been left the night before. In the day light the 
filth was even more frightful, vermin crawling over the new- 
born baby. 
But the worst feature of the picture is still to be presented. 
Sitting on the bed was another child, a little girl perhaps two 
years old who, without any interference from the mother, was 
practicing self-abuse. 
Can one imagine anything more terrible? What chance 
has a child born under a roof like that? What can be expected 6 
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of the children born of ignorant, degraded parents like these? 
How can any man or woman say that sex instruction is un- 
necessary? And we dare go still farther . Is it not a crime to 
withhold the knowledge of birth control? Is it not a God-given 
task to better the conditions under which so many babies are 
born? Let the thinking man and woman answer. This is only 
one case out of a multitude of similar ones. 
R. Swinburne Clymer. 
"Beverly Hall," 
. Quakertown, Pa. 
Oct. 20, 1918. THE PURITY OF SEX 
To the pure in heart all things are pure. 
The same general proverbs, or adages, or sayings, are found 
in all great religions. No matter what the age, source, or to 
what people addressed, there is a similarity in the enunciation 
of moral truths. "Unto the pure all things are pure," has found 
its way through many holy books down to the Bible in our own 
time. Men agree with this quotation without hesitation until the 
subject of sex is introduced and then retire in confusion. 
In the vegetable and animal worlds the law of reproduction, 
of mating, is taken as a matter of course. Men find nothing to 
be ashamed of in breeding animals. They select the partici- 
pants, watch and assist at the birth of the young, feed them, 
select the future breeders and discuss their points without a 
thought of concealment. Many openly take pride in the success 
that attends their efforts in bringing forth superior stock, and 
offence is never taken, no matter how bold the language used. 
The perpetuation of desirable traits, of form, of color, of future 
values, are common subjects to thousands upon thousands. But 
turn the attention to human reproduction, a subject of much 
greater importance, and what happens? Every one, or nearly 
so, turns the head and seeks the cover of prejudice and ignor- 
ance. 
Dr. J. H. Greer, of the College of Medicine and Surgery, 
Chicago, says: "Throughout the domain of nature the instinct 
of sex is paramount. In the highest kingdom of life the instinct 
is subject to the modifications of civilization, which, alas; is not 
always for the best. And the lives of all men are colored by the 
thoughts of sex, which may be any of the varying shades between 8 
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good and bad. Asceticism, on the one hand, strives to suppress 
as impure all thoughts and feelings regarding the relations of 
the sexes. Those who are so narrow as to conform to the letter 
while ignoring the spirit of true religion, may be cited as the 
most baneful of combatants of pure thought on the subject. On 
the other hand is the unchaste, immoral sensualist, who believes 
that life means gratification of the senses, the most exquisite of 
which is the sexual relation. He drains the wine of life to the 
dregs, and, when at last sated, can see nothing of the true use 
of the bodily senses. The extremes exist because they do not 
know the truth." 
We would dispel this murky cloud by assisting humanity to 
attain to a knowledge of higher race development. In doing this 
we avoid both extremes. There is a sane, middle course untinged 
by any cult or ism, one that we have proven worthy of the ac- 
ceptance of all men. This course adjusts sexual and physical 
inharmonies, bringing about health and happiness as the result 
of sane living. Those who have attempted to find truth by fol- 
lowing the false path of continence will be benefited equally with 
those who have pursued the opposite extreme, that of license and 
debauchery. 
The straight path lies between these two excesses and it 
leads to the Fountain of Life; more, to the fountain of youth. 
Those that walk this path discover the beauty and divinity of 
sex and the laws of God regarding it. When understood, the 
truths of sex do not bring a blush to the cheek. There is nothing 
in God's laws to humiliate, or mortify, man. A feeling of shame 
belongs only to those who live life shamefully. 
Why should sex be considered impure? Can it be impure? 
Its abuse may make it so, but of itself it is pure, for God made 
all things pure. Why differentiate between humans and animals, 
giving the latter the best, not only for argument, but of care and 
education, in sex matters ? Is not a clean, healthy woman, God's 
most beautiful handiwork, the equal of any animal ever created ? 
Why is the human feminine degraded by man, and the animal HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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feminine studied? Their parts and properties respected? The 
answer comes quickly. Because the mind and heart of the males 
have become perverted, defiled, filthy, from dwelling in a lewd 
manner upon contact, gratification, sensation. The man who 
sees anything impure in sex; the man who can think of sex with 
any thought but that of God's loftiest intention, should begin a 
period of cleansing. 
One is lost in a labyrinth of futile conjecture when attempt- 
ing to find an answer for the foulness, ignorance and baseness 
of the ordinary male. The subject of sex brings a knowing leer 
to his face, a licentious look to the eyes while unbridled thoughts 
speak through his entire organism. Even good and pure women, 
at the mention of the creative function, cast down their eyes, give 
evasive answers and hasten from so secret a subject. What has 
brought man to such a mental condition of impurity ? Lack of sex 
instruction, in the first place, and the actual encouragement of 
degraded, perverted, vile, untruthful ideas, in the second. Evil 
thrives in the darkness of ignorance. 
It is maintained that the world is growing better. Both 
trust and faith are needed to believe this assertion, when con- 
fronted with the various forms of license and debauchery found 
in the great cities of today. The history of Sodom and Gomor- 
rah, destroyed by fire because of the unspeakable sex practices 
of its people, is repeated in this twentieth century with such a 
diversity of sex habits that would put to shame those ancient 
sinners. 
Had a knowledge of sex and its purposes been taught those 
early peoples, society of today would not be perforated with 
loathesome diseases-as it is-and the numbers of degenerates 
now infesting it. Sex seems always to have been a subject of 
apology, given consideration only when the light was turned out. 
Can the wildest fanatic argue that we are better for this past 
treatment of sex? The degradation and misuse of sex is but 
increased by such methods. It is time the present movement was 
launched, the facts of the sex laws of God taught far and near, 10 
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in groups and singly, in clubs and schools and churches, whether 
the majority agree to it or not. Light must be thrown on the 
darkness of this subject, by force if need be, or the race will 
die out. 
It must be admitted that lack of knowledge and silence on 
this subject have caused the present condition. If ignorance and 
secrecy were constructive and desirable, would not the people of 
today be in advance of those of the past, in morality and sex 
purity? Of course. But this is not so. Perversion is increas- 
ing at an alarming rate. The red light districts, at which the 
world points with scorn, are the least harmful, in the perpetua- 
tion of vice. The private life, in a vast number of homes on the 
face of the earth, reek with defilement and corruption, not only 
between men and women, but between men and men, women and 
women. 
Society, at large, has little to fear from the inmates of the 
red light districts. Through police and medical supervision they 
are kept within certain limits. The woman of ill-fame does not, 
except in the rarest cases, reproduce her kind. Therefore, her 
influence, compared to that of corrupt homes, is insignificant. 
The greatest sex crimes in the human calendar are perpetu- 
ated in the home. In order not to have children, married couples 
resort to all manner of degrading practices. It is probable that 
perversion originated in the desire to prevent reproduction and 
yet not curtail the pleasures of physical satisfaction. 
Home vices are doubly destructive. They bear on the public 
good and the future of the race. The ultimate result of un- 
natural practices on the individuals themselves are horrible to 
contemplate. Body, mind and soul suffer, drugs resorted to, 
and so on, from bad to worse. But the most diabolical of the 
effects are bequeathed to the children who are born in spite of 
perversions. Has the reader ever asked himself this question: 
"Where do all these cripples, idiots, drug fiends, degenerates, 
found in the present generation, come from?" We have already 
told you. HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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The enemies of the dissemination of sex knowledge declare 
that if instruction, and publicity, is directed toward this subject 
the result will be far worse than the present state. No doubt the 
majority of mankind agree with this verdict, for the majority are, 
and always have been, against mental, psychical and spiritual 
progression. Why? Because the bulk of human beings are 
satisfied to rest in their ignorance. They look backward to what 
their fathers had, and thought, deeming that condition good 
enough, rather than make the effort to face a growing, enlighten- 
ing future. It is the few, imbued with the Christ-like spirit of 
helpfulness, that step forward to lead their plodding brothers out 
of the land of bondage and prejudice. They know that knowl- 
edge is of God, and being such, cannot harm any one <?/ his 
children. Sex knowledge is no exception. It is just as neces- 
sary as the knowledge of any other department of life. When 
young people are taught the facts concerning their bodies and its 
uses as simply as students are taught facts in an agricultural 
college; when health and morality are considered as rational a 
subject for study as Latin and mathematics, then vice in all its 
jorms will disappear. 
Mystery and curiosity travel hand in hand. Secrecy is their 
sponser. The small boy who whispers something obscene to his 
companion, gloating and laughing over the vileness of the com- 
munication, is but preparing for future licentious thoughts and 
acts. Being inquisitive, he wants to know, and discuss, that 
which is hidden; in one way or another he will lift the veil. He 
has succumbed to the idea of secret vice. Had the light been 
thrown directly on the subject; had the facts of biology been laid 
before him in a sane, orderly, reasonable, decent manner, the 
evil side of sex would have never entered his mind. 
A very uncouth example illustrates the value of openness, 
frankness and education. When women wore long, clinging 
skirts, it was a common thing to see men and boys salaciously 
observing the shapeliness of limbs on a windy day. They were 
enimated by a vile curiosity to see that which was supposed to 12 
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be concealed; to find out something not familiar to them. That 
particular curiosity is dead. Women have worn short skirts so 
long that pedal extremities are now an ordinary sight and fail 
to attract attention, comment and unhealthy thoughts. That 
which was once concealed is now revealed, the mystery is done 
away, and the evil attending it has vanished. 
The hideous, noxious, pernicious aspects of sex must be 
erased from the minds of men, or the race will be exterminated 
by its own evil. Whole nations have been annihilated in the 
past, or else Biblical history records untruth. The story of the 
Jews in the wilderness and the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah 
are proof that a people may be wiped from the face of the earth 
for the sins of sex. 
God made the world and all it contains; established laws 
for its welfare and pronounced it good. In the wisdom of the 
Father certain edicts of sex were included. Has He revoked 
them? Has He turned over a department of life to be governed 
by the gross ignorance of men? After having bestowed one of 
the greatest of His prerogatives on human beings, has He with- 
drawn Himself, thereby acquiesing to the chaos that would re- 
sult ? That power to create; that power of generation and regen- 
eration through right use of sex was not a whim or an accident 
of the great God, but a definite law given men for definite pur- 
poses, as fixed and unchangeable a law as that which governs 
the stars in their courses. Woe to that man, society, or nation, 
who attempts to subvert a law of the great Creator. 
The nations of the earth can be enlightened and saved, only 
through the education and direction of the individuals composing 
it. Reverence and purity are the first two requisites. No doubt 
these qualities were in the thought of Jesus when he said: "Un- 
less ye become as little children ye can in no wise enter the 
kingdom of heaven." 
Men must return to, or acquire, the attitude of the child, 
that purity of mind and heart without which the laws and rea- 
sons of sex life cannot be understood. It is a far stretch of the HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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imagination to rehabilitate the base, vulgar mind of a degenerate 
man; to think of his return to the state of God-like purity of the 
mind of a child, but unless he does, he is a wreck and an outcast, 
and no power in heaven or earth can reach him. Thousands 
upon thousands of these derelicts will continue in the path of 
destruction. With an "unconscious feeling" of loathing mingled 
with pity we pass them by, but the younger generation must be 
taught and rescued from this awful fate. The children, still 
pure in thought, must be kept so; those whose thoughts and acts 
are now tainted with misuse and unholy desires must be turned 
about quickly and the evil erased, while the young men and 
women must be appealed to, must be faced with the consequences 
of ignorance, and in the name of God, taught the holy use of the 
functions of reproduction. The older generation, the fathers 
and mothers of today, must recognize their responsibility, not 
only in the preservation of their own minds and bodies, but in 
the guidance of their offspring. Instructions to parents will be 
found in other chapters of this book. 
It should be drilled into the minds of the old, young and 
middle aged that sex organs were created by God and therefore 
cannot be unclean or impure. Their uses are just as normal as 
those of the stomach or any other part of the body. Sex organs 
were not made to be slighted; not made to be given over to ob- 
scene thoughts and actions; not made to be ashamed of and used 
in darkness, thus being catalogued as evil along with other de- 
structive agencies that work by night. Is it an uplifting, noble 
thought for men, made in the image of the Father, to say, and 
believe, that He made them in such a way that they must forever 
apologize for their Maker? 
Sex is pure. Sex is holy. When used in the love embrace 
its power is beyond compute. In the right use of sex, in genera- 
tion and regeneration, man is endowed with a power an angel 
might envy. Instead of striving to understand the laws sur- 
rounding this mighty privilege and power, he trails the greatest 
gift of a great God in the mire of sensuality and ignorance; in- 14 
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stead of realizing the purity of the function, the holiness that 
should attend its use, he wallows in perversions and voluntarily 
seeks the way to physical, moral and spiritual ruin. 
The abuse of sex is the sole cause for the general thought of 
impurity concerning it. The creative function, good and pure in 
itself, has been violated by the "demons of sense gratification," 
until the thoughts of men are distorted and they believe falsity 
to be truth. Men, having defiled a benefaction of God, turn the 
use of a pure function into unholy channels and then declare sex 
manifestations unclean, impure. 
It is impossible for a healthy, normal, noble-minded man, 
one who has used his creative powers in a right manner, to think 
of sex with lewdness, or consider it unholy or impure. To such 
a man, one part of his body is not better, or worse, than an- 
other. "Unto the pure all things are pure." 
The development of a higher race must come about through 
the education of men in the right use of sex. The fundamental 
laws must be taught openly, without bias, fear, or favor. 
God created all things pure. When children are taught to 
give sex organs the respect due them; when they are taught the 
powers, purposes and requirements of the sex nature; when every 
detail is understood, morbid, unhealthy thoughts will vanish, 
mystery disappear, and the shameful, destructive practices and 
sex perversions will be a thing of the past. THE BEGINNING OF SEX LIES 
A noted prelate of one of the largest and most powerful 
religious organizations of the western world is said to have made 
the statement that, if his church could but control the first nine 
years of a child's life, it mattered little what after-influences 
might be brought to bear, the teaching could never be eradicated 
from the child's mind or heart. 
Generally this holds true. The first impressions on the 
plastic mind of the child are indelible. But why confine the 
child's true education to the doctrines of the parent's particular 
church or belief? Is it not as important to teach the young the 
truths of life as it is to drill into their minds the history of the 
saints, the necessity of observing special days in the church cal- 
endar or the preparation for an existence beyond the grave? 
Children are taught the basic elements of a religion for the pre- 
servation of their souls after death; but the fundamental truths 
of biology and sexology, having as their object the preservation 
of physical life, which is the basis, not only of health, happiness 
and evolution, but the. welfare of the. soul itself, are entirely 
ignored and left to chance and ignorance. The salvation of the 
soul is definitely related to the salvation of the body. It is just 
as imperative to know and obey God's laws of the physical world 
as it is to follow the laws of the spiritual world. How is it pos- 
sible to build a perfect future on a decayed present? Can an 
unclean mind foster a pure soul? 
When a child begins to question its parents concerning its 
origin such questions are usually evaded or untruthfully ans- 
wered. The perturbed, thoughtless, morally-ignorant mother or 
father attribute birth to "the stork," the doctor, the drug store, 16 
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or some kind fairy, and hastily changes the conversation. Can 
there be a greater injury done in all the world than this, deceiv- 
ing the child? Is it not appalling to consider the untruths in- 
jected into the young child's mind by its parents at the very dawn 
of its intellectual unfoldmentr 
The degradation of sex begins at this very point. The child 
is soon old enough to suspect. In the most degrading ways it 
becomes informed of the bald, vulgar aspect of physical contact 
of the sexes with the result that the yet unsoiled page of its mind 
becomes smudged, never to be restored to its pure state. The 
veracity of the parents is doubted. The child naturally con- 
cludes that they were ashamed of the creative act which brought 
it into the world. It treasures to itself the great secret. Its 
active imagination pictures the intimacy of human beings and 
animals, and there is but one result. That child, before its 
reasoning faculties have unfolded, is convinced that the method 
of creation is a secret, impure, unholy and unclean act, to be 
hidden behind falsehoods. This state, deplorable as it is, would 
not be so utterly hopeless 1/ it ended there. But it does not. The 
secret corruption of thought appeals to the lowest in the child 
nature, nurturing a hot-house growth of passion at an age when 
the urge of sex should be unknown. Hence, secret vices follow 
"as the night the day." 
Ignorance of a law does not annul its effect. The indiffer- 
ence to duty, the feeling of shrinking timidity and the ignorance 
as to the extent of the effect of their lies and evasions, do not 
make parents any the less criminals. Mothers and fathers are 
no less criminals if they permit their children to be cast upon the 
world untaught and unprepared to use and control the powers 
of sex. An effect is always the result of a similar cause. If 
children grow into licentious men and women; if they become 
debauches and degenerates; and if they become human wrecks; 
it must indicate to the thinking man and woman that there must 
be a sufficient cause back of them to produce it. What produces 
this condition? Criminal parents, invariably... Think of it! HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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What food for reflection this gives us who have the improvement 
of the race at heart when we grasp the significance of the possi- 
bilities to the race through the inculcation of sex truths to chil- 
dren! 
The intuition of a child is as active, if not more so, than 
that of the grown person; and it therefore senses untruths at an 
early age. The awakening of reason in the child causes it to 
ask many questions, and every untruth told the child hinders the 
search for that knowledge which rightly belongs to it and which 
it has a right to demand. 
Intuitively, the child senses when falsehoods are given it 
as truth in answer to its questions; but is powerless to prevent 
its reasoning faculties and intuitive powers from engendering 
within its mind the feeling that what has been told is not true, 
and yet it cannot understand why untruth is given when knowl- 
edge is sought. Instinctively he goes to those of or near his own 
age for answers to those questions which continue to force them- 
selves upon his mind. Who pays for the falsehood told the 
child ? 
Many parents promise themselves that' 'when the child is 
older" they will have a heart-to-heart talk with it. Even if that 
resolution is kept and acted upon, it fails to accomplish very 
much. The seeds of evil have been sown. Before the child is 
old enough to talk "reasonably" with its parents; school com- 
panions, or older people, have already begun the demolition of 
the temple of purity. It takes but few insinuations or vile sug- 
gestions to cause a turmoil in the imagination of a sensitive 
child. Then, too, there are and always have been, men of the 
lowest type, who seduce or lead astray, young boys and girls, 
for their own sense-gratification. We cite one case coming under 
our observation, as an illustration. A young boy had been told 
the usual falsehoods and forbidden to ask questions. His seven 
years of life had failed to divulge the whys and wherefores of 
his creation and existence. At this time a male creature past 
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guest. The house being small, the child shared his bed with the 
old man who slowly, but surely, taught the child all manner of 
vices that his own degenerate desires might be gratified. Not 
knowing good from evil, the boy was as clay in the hands of the 
potter. Warned to keep silent and fearing his parents, the de- 
generating habits fastened themselves upon him. A physical 
wreck at twelve he was brought to us for treatment. We suc- 
ceeded in obtaining the whole story. He was fully developed, 
sexually, at twelve years. His entire nervous system was shat- 
tered, his vision defective. He had pronounced night losses and 
his brain was affected. In short, here was a human wreck well 
on the way to a premature grave. The parents were speechless 
when confronted with the truth. Horrible, pitiable, you say! 
It is. But there are thousands upon thousands of -just such cases 
developing continually. Every form of vice "stalks abroad" 
seeking the young, and parents not only leave every avenue open 
to it, but invite the catastrophe. It may be of interest to add that 
after a long period of treatment, moral, mental and physical, this 
boy gradually won back his health and became a decent member 
of society; but all faith in his parents was gone. For through 
them he had lost that feeling of tender and intimate helpfulness, 
kindness and brotherly love for all men. Throughout life the 
inner self of that man will bear the ugly scars inflicted upon it 
during his helpless childhood through neglect of his parents. 
The so-called innate goodness of the child cannot be de- 
pended upon to protect it from the influences of vice. As a race 
human beings have been impregnated with perversions. From 
time immemorial the very atmosphere surrounding humanity has 
been saturated with thought-images of sex evils. It is an excep- 
tional case when an innocent child escapes the general con- 
tamination. Children are imaginative and imitative, possessing 
an inherent desire to expand their lives, gain experience and ob- 
tain information. Witness how the ordinary school child beams 
with pleasure over the acquirement of some special knowledge, 
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into the ears of its mother every new discovery. Especially is 
this true if that knowledge or event is in any way related to his 
own particular sensation or enjoyment. And if to this is added 
the idea of secrecy the child is enthralled. Is there any wonder, 
then, that sex, as a mysterious, secret plaything, enslaves it? 
For every influence, parental and inherited, is against natural 
sex purity and goodness. 
The wrong thoughts and wrong habits of past ages are 
inbred in the child nature of today. These sex habits are 
desires; they are hungers of the physical being; and, as the 
physical nature in man of today is supreme, it follows that these 
desires, appetites and hungers make themselves felt in the child 
with the first awakening of the sex forces. Consequently, instead 
of the innate goodness in the boy or girl acting as a protective 
power, this inborn appetite impels and leads the child to seek 
ways and means of self-gratification without a thought as to the 
results to self or others. It reasons thus, since "All I know are 
doing this same thing and seemingly are enjoying it and appar- 
ently are receiving no ill effects from it, why should not I do the 
same?" The result is that it does follow the rest of humanity 
and pays the same penalty-penalties destructive to body, mind 
and that higher something in man which we call his soul. 
What is the remedy to this? There is but one: learn to 
know the truth yourself, and should your child question you, 
use your love instinct and tell it the whole truth, clothing it in 
words which only mother-love can. Let it be in this manner: 
"Just as you see this great world about you, with its many men, 
women and children, its green trees, its beautiful flowers, its 
birds and animals, so is there another world in the great beyond 
where the eyes of the body cannot see. In that great other world, 
which we believe to be something like this world, there are many 
souls. That you may be better able to understand what souls are, 
we will call them little children, but they are more like fairies; 
because in that world they do not think or do things which are 
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their mothers. And this is because in that other world which 
you cannot now see, and where these fairies, souls or children 
are, there are many angels, good women, who are there for the 
purpose of watching these little fairies, so that they will not 
think or do wrong. We call these good women their guardian 
angels, who watch over them always, both in that fairy world 
and in this world, when they come here. 
"But these little souls, though they have everything they 
seem to desire, cannot know either pleasure or pain. They do 
not know what it is to love a mother, because they have no such 
body as you have, which can feel, laugh and cry, and run to its 
mother when it is in trouble. 
"In time, as they see the children of the earth romp and play 
and have animal pets, their gardens of flowers, their little 
stubbed toes, mothers caressing and kissing their babies; these 
little children of our world retiring to sleep, kneeling by the 
bedside and praying for their protection, mothers fondly kissing 
them good-night, the little fairies of the other world become dis- 
satisfied with their heaven and long to become as other little 
children, even though they may stub their toes, become sick, 
have pain and be made to cry, as well as having nice things to 
eat and to wear. This longing in the little fairies gradually 
opens the way for them to come into the earth plane, so that they 
may have bodies and be as other children. Yet, before they 
can come to earth, a place to receive them must be prepared. 
"Within your mother, of whom you have asked the question, 
God, who is the Father of the heaven or place where dwell all 
these little fairies and the place from which mother also came, 
has prepared a little temple which should receive such little souls 
that they might come to earth. In this little temple within 
mother, your father who loves mother, and who also desired a 
little child, such as other fathers and mothers have, sowed a seed 
and gradually this seed began to grow. After a long time this 
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until one day it was ready to leave the little temple and come to 
earth, to be as other little children. 
"Now, all this time, while this little body was growing, you, 
a fairy in that other world, dissatisfied with your place there, 
desired to come to earth. Your guardian angel, who was always 
with or near you, watched over you so that nothing should hap- 
pen and prepared the long trip from Fairy land to the earth land 
where father and mother were waiting for you. One day the 
glad tidings came that the body, the little house which your soul 
was to enter, would be soon ready. Then the guardian angel 
prepared all those things which belonged to you and you were 
made ready to leave when the call should come. Then came the 
day when you were told by the guardian angel to take leave of 
the other little souls. You said good-bye to them, and, with your 
guardian angel took a final farewell of all your companions and 
left that place where there is neither pain nor sorrow. As you 
journeyed from the land of Souls and of Fairies, you soon noted 
a change. Whereas there it was warm and nothing to cause pain, 
you now came to a place where it was cold and where was much 
pain and little pleasure. But you had no time to think, or to 
change your mind. You saw mother, who seemed to be very 
much larger than you thought. This almost frightened you; 
yet you were fascinated by your surroundings and your attention 
was held by the Guardian Angel who told you to be ready to 
meet your new mother. 
"Very soon mother opened the temple doors, though it 
seemed to be with great sorrow and pain, and you beheld coming 
from this temple, which God had given mother, a little body just 
like many you had seen in other mothers' arms while you were 
still in fairyland. Your guardian Angel gave you to understand 
that this was to be your body, and told you that with the first 
cry the body gave you would fall asleep; and when you awoke 
you would feel heavy and cold and would be crying for the 
warm feeling which you had always known. Suddenly you be- 
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Everything seemed dark and cold. Then you awoke, heard your- 
self cry and knew not what to do. You called upon your guard- 
ian Angel; but, though you could see her, she seemed to be at a 
distance and could not come to you. Soon they dressed you and 
you found yourself in mother's arms. You started to get warm 
and then you felt yourself sinking into a peaceful sleep. You 
could still perceive your Guardian Angel, but she could no longer 
come to help you, though she seemed to cheer you. And gradu- 
ally as you came to know more of your mother, you seemed to 
see less of your Guardian Angel, until now you no longer see her, 
though she is still watching over you as she did in Fairy land, 
and would feel hurt if she saw you do things which displeased 
your mother. 
"This is the way all little babies come to the earth. They 
are in a heaven where all is beautiful, but where they cannot en- 
joy the good things baby does; for there they have no mother to 
hold them and talk to them. This is the reason they want to 
come to earth where mothers are. 
"Mother has told you this but you must not tell it to any 
other children for they might not understand. It is a secret be- 
tween mother and you which you must not disclose; and if any 
other children tell you anything about such things, you must tell 
them that it is not nice to talk to others about these things, but 
that only mother must know." 
This is the absolute truth as sacred philosophy teaches it 
to us; but it is in language the child can grasp. To be sure, it 
may be given in varied forms, but this is the answer to the ques- 
tion: "Mother, where did I come from?" If the mother has the 
true mother instinct, mother love, she then need not hesitate to 
tell this to her child no matter what the age of the child may be. 
If all mothers would answer their children honestly and faith- 
fully, inviting their confidences and questions, and telling them 
not to listen to other children, the basis would be laid for a life 
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to teach their children the truth and nothing but the truth; and 
in one generation we will abolish much of the ignorance and 
degeneracy so prevalent these days. 
We refuse to believe that the future will produce the selfish, 
narrow-minded guilty parents of today. There are men and 
women, ministers, teachers, writers and lawyers, who have dedi- 
cated themselves to this movement of sex education. These are 
thinking men and women who are ready to assume the place of 
parents in order to save children of the present generation. 
Because of the prejudice of the masses, the good work will 
of necessity be hindered and many children will thereby be pre- 
vented from receiving instruction. But the night will be dis- 
pelled for the future ages; and if those who even dimly perceive 
the light will do their part, the great work of race improvement 
through the teaching of sex truths will spread. The dawn of a 
better day is here. 24 
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Learn Wisdom from the Experience of Others. 
"From the experience of others learn wisdom," means that 
it should not be necessary for us to suffer through our own ex- 
periences but we should be able to profit by such experience and, 
thereby gain sufficient wisdom that we need not make the same 
blunders. 
In many departments of life we do gain wisdom in this 
manner; but in others, in fact, in the most important activities of 
life, we totally ignore this and come to understanding only 
through our own bitter experiences. 
For instance, in the development of fancy cattle, prize 
poultry or pedigreed dogs, we employ the most noted experts to 
study the mating, keeping and feeding of the animals; and be- 
cause of these researches and experiments we are willing to fol- 
low their instructions, thereby avoiding losses. 
But does this hold true in that which concerns the very 
foundation of human life-child culture, health and develop- 
ment? 
Do we employ experts at high salaries to discover the best 
food for the infant and the child? Do we employ experts to 
travel about the country to lecture on health and the prevention 
of disease? Do we encourage those who really know, to teach 
that most important of all subjects,-sex purity and a higher 
race development? To our lasting shame it must be confessed 
that not only do we refuse to encourage the teachings of what is 
known regarding the divinity of sex and the development of a 
superior race, but we go further and condemn, shun and often 26 
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imprison those who through love of the human race attempt to 
teach mankind the truth concerning themselves. 
Why is it that we are so anxious to learn all about animal 
sexology, mating and feeding to attain the production of the 
highest grade of cattle, chickens, dogs etc., while we condemn 
those who would teach us the same science concerning the human 
family? Is it that we consider the animal kingdom of greater 
benefit to God and man than humanity? Are the creative pow- 
ers and the creative functions of the human race less pure than 
those of the animal creation ? These are issues which we cannot 
and dare not evade. 
However, we are more consistent in some respects, as for 
instance, in our public schools, even in the lower grades, we teach 
the child about plant life and plant culture, and do not think it 
strange; yet the creative or productive parts of the plant are in 
nowise different from those of the animal or human creative 
emblems. We go still further. Not only do we teach the child 
horticulture, including the productive powers and how through 
the creative parts of plants fertilization is brought about, but we 
dissect the plant and teach the child how to dissect it, and con- 
sider these things as a matter of course. 
Fundamentally, there is absolutely no difference between the 
creative functioning of the plant, the animal and the human. 
Why not then draw an analogy between the three in purest 
language, so that child and adult can come to a clear understand- 
ing of the beauty and chastity and the necessity of sex. 
This is the easiest way to teach the child, the parents and 
the public generally, and the lecturer should, through the func- 
tional analogy of the plant which so closely characterizes the 
human, be able to explain to his auditors the creative parts of the 
plant and the method of fertilization, as is done in the better 
grade schools. Thus show the similarity between the plant and 
the animal, the animal and the human. In this way the mind 
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structions which are usually engendered if sex is lectured upon 
exclusively. 
The question arises: is this difficult? Not in the least. For 
the works of natural history, or natural history simplified, may 
be obtained by any one, and through a little study, one may be- 
come thoroughly conversant with the three phases of the ques- 
tion, especially as relates to the plant and the human side. 
Why has this not been done? Why is it not done at pres- 
ent? The answer is not difficult to find. We have been taught 
for so many centuries to abhor the sex question that to many, the 
bright side of the creative power, sex power used only for crea- 
tion, is shunned and not discussed. 
Consequently the first necessity is, there should be a thor- 
ough understanding in our own mind, concerning the bright and 
divine side of the sex question; and when we have accomplished 
this, then to analyze it with a clean and open mind, to find its 
beauties just as we find the beauties in the flower that is most 
highly developed. 
In the consideration of this great question, we must avoid 
extremes. We must forego looking upon the dark side of it; 
that which brings dishonor, disease, misery, degradation and 
death; and also the discussion of the question in season and out 
of season. We must bear in mind the Biblical command: 
"There is a time and a season for all things." In other words 
we should discourage, on the one hand, the discussion of the sex 
question in public gatherings before mixed audiences unless the 
meeting is for that express purpose; and on the other hand, we 
should discourage with all our power the tendency to look on 
the morbid and impure side of it, though this should be fully 
discussed should the occasion demand it. 
At present, when humanity is awakening to the tremendous 
importance of sex hygiene, there are many opportunities for 
us to teach the truth, but we should be careful that we do this in 
a dignified manner, as becomes true men and women. Never to 
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vulgar way, or give our silent consent to others who are guilty of 
doing it, so that the cause of higher race development may not 
be harmed. 
In bringing this great and vital subject before the people, 
whether it be before a gathering of those who would become 
teachers; or parents, or of children who have reached the age 
where they can comprehend the subject, we must consider many 
things. First, when appearing before any gathering, no matter 
what its nature, we should do honor to the subject in hand by 
our personal appearance, so it be dignified and thereby helping 
to impress upon the minds of our audience the importance of the 
truths concerning the divine Creative Power and the glory of 
helping to develop a higher race. Secondly, if the people to 
whom we are to bring the saving news are not fully informed, 
we may begin the instruction, by illustrating by means of the 
plant life. From thence we may gradually unfold the creative 
power of the human and, in most instances, cover the powers and 
purposes of each organ of creation, giving the names most readily 
understood and at the same time furtherest removed from the 
vulgar expressions with which every school boy and girl is 
familiar. Thus our greatest success, especially before young 
people, depends upon the way we present the subject. If we 
are "at home" with it, if we are at ease, if we believe in what 
we teach, and not self-conscious, then it is not difficult inculcat- 
ing in the young the belief that sex, its powers and all that con- 
cerns it, is sacred and divine. 
Our must difficult problem will be to show the man, 
the woman and the child that sex is not what they have always 
believed it to be,-a thing to be ashamed of-but that it is the 
highest and holiest gift from God to man. Because sex has a 
dark side is positive proof that it has just as bright a side. Be- 
cause sex has brought disease and death, also proves it has the 
power to bring health and longevity. Like all things in nature, 
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and it is left to each one of us to choose whether we use it for 
glory or for degradation. 
How many would think of making use of a prayer to curse 
another? Though there are men who have lost respect for re- 
ligion and though many disclaim belief in a God, yet few could 
be induced to use a prayer as a means of bringing a curse upon 
another. Why? Simply because throughout their lives they 
have been taught that prayer is for but one purpose, either to 
ask God for a favor for one's self, or for a blessing upon another. 
Consequently there is but one meaning attached to prayer. Al- 
though not generally known, the fact is that a prayer or a sup- 
plication to God may be used just as readily in cursing another 
as in invoking blessings upon oneself or another. Yet the race 
has been taught the higher use of prayer only. 
As in prayer so in sex. If once we can get mankind to 
comprehend that sex is a blessing and not a curse, that it is a 
thing of beauty and not an abomination; if we can get them to 
realize that sex is like prayer, pure in itself, holy in all its func- 
tions, and for good only, then will mankind look upon sex in a 
different light. Up to the present the curse that sex brings has 
been the only side presented while the good and blessings it 
brings has not received any consideration. 
In the past we heard much of the power of personal magne- 
tism; it is this power in man which leads him to success; that 
with it the apparently uneducated man, the man with imperfect 
form, and with features far from comely, is able to brush aside 
men who possess all of these desirable qualities but who have 
not the personal magnetism he possesses. Yet how few know 
that the basis of this so-called power is nothing less than a pow- 
erful sex nature, and that the more fully this force is developed, 
the greater is the power of personal attraction? In reality the 
basis of achievement in all lines of endeavor is virile force, and 
just as this sex power diminishes, so does the creative power of 
man diminish. When we use the term, creative power, in this 
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wholly to the power to accomplish, to succeed, where others fail. 
As with man so with woman. In her it manifests itself by 
the fire in her eye, the freshness of her skin, the glory of her hair, 
the vivacity of her nature, the enchantment of her smile. We 
speak of her as "full of life," but do we also understand that all 
of these attractive powers are a '.dally based upon a healthy sex 
nature, on organs which are functioning normally ? 
Who can behold anything abnormal in such a man or such a 
woman? Quite to the contrary, we speak of them as perfect, as 
examples whom we should emulate. Yet not for a moment do 
we associate their personality with their sex nature, when in 
fact, all that is desirable in them is based absolutely on that 
nature, normal, healthy and fully developed. 
Knowing these things as we do, it is our duty to teach the 
truth to the audiences before whom we appear, and to show them 
that while it is on a normal, healthy and powerful sex nature 
these desirable qualities in man are based, nevertheless it must 
not be abused. If we can bring men and women, fathers and 
mothers, boys and girls, to comprehend this mighty truth, and 
show them that it is all of life, that sex is the power of attraction, 
and that in order to be attractive, it must be developed, held 
sacred, and never abused, then we have removed from the mind 
of man the dark side which has been before us for centuries. 
Those who have abused this nature, have done the things 
they know they should not have done and look upon it with 
shame. These individuals are always the loudest in their de- 
nunciation of all sex teachings. "To the pure all things are 
pure." Those who have used what is pure for impure purposes 
can see nothing but the impure, even that which is in reality and 
basically pure. 
Why should this be so? Simply because the person who 
uses his creative functions for ignoble purposes poisons the 
Fountain of Life, and creates a diseased mind, a perverted imag- 
ination and a dark aspect of the subject. The result is that this 
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story of the Garden of Eden. While Eve lived the natural life, 
she could see nothing impure, nothing to be ashamed of in her 
nude state. To Adam and Eve their bodies were pure, holy and 
were created by God in the highest art; but no sooner did they 
abuse the creative nature, when their minds became assailed 
with a sense of shame and their nudity became a nakedness 
which had to be covered. 
In this one story of the results of misuse of creative power, 
we can find food for a thousand sermons. It proves conclusively 
that it is not the pure in heart and the clean in mind who con- 
demn true sex teachings, but those who through immoral actions 
have discovered their own nakedness. In the light of this they 
see all others as naked and defiled as they themselves are defiled 
in the sight of God, their Creator who, in creating them, looked 
upon them and saw that "all was good." 
Sex is like medicine, which when rightly used brings 
health, but if wrongly used produces disease, misery and death. 
Sex is pure and holy, and if rightly used is a means of generation 
and for regeneration; but when abused is like poison to the 
mind; it colors the imagination darkly, makes man morbid, 
clouds the creative faculty of the mind, brings sorrow and misery 
and ends in death. It is not sexual power that is to be con- 
demned, but the abnormal and carnal use men make of it. The 
correct use must be taught to all, especially to the rising gen- 
eration. 
The perverted use of this power is readily illustrated. We 
take for example the young man who is full of the power called 
personal magnetism. He attracts people to him. He holds his 
friends closely and he accomplishes things which to others seem 
impossible. In short, he outstrips hundreds on the way, and 
does it simply, naturally and even unconsciously. It seems that 
the Gods and the fates smile upon him. But through an unwise 
association he falls into the company of those who are not living 
the moral life. He begins to misuse the creative functions, he 
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attractiveness for others leaves him. His friends see him 
changed. He is no longer magnetic and attractive. The work 
he used to accomplish with ease is now done in a labored way. 
His appearance of youth gives way to that of age. Why? Be- 
cause he has misused his creative power, depleted the "storage 
batteries" below normal, and is reaping the results of his dissi- 
pation. 
Here then, we find the most emphatic lessons of the de- 
sirability of the powerful sex nature, and of the true knowledge 
of its use for creative or re-creative purposes only, never for the 
satisfaction of passion; for passion is ignoble and results in 
disease and death. THE PATH OF DEATH 
Part One 
"The Soul That Sinneth It Shall Die." 
It would be difficult to calculate the number of people who 
have and are endeavoring to live according to the teachings of 
the Bible and who consciously or unconsciously desire to be 
called Christians. But how many of these millions have read 
and fully understand, to say nothing of obeying the greatest law 
taught in that book, namely, the Law of Moses, wherein he 
positively commands that man should not "Cast his seed upon 
the ground?" 
Undoubtedly countless numbers have read this command; 
but, of these how many have fully realized its greatest import- 
ance to the entire race? How many actually comprehend that 
it is the basis of life and death? The disobedience of this com- 
mand by the multitudes has produced war and rumors of war, 
sin and sickness, misery and death, in fact, all of the undesirable 
conditions on earth where otherwise there might have been a 
heaven. 
"The soul that sinneth it shall die" and "Cast not thy seed 
upon the ground" have one and the same meaning and apply to 
all the abuses of Man's power of generation and regeneration. 
In the ultimate it matters not by what specific act or acts Man 
casts his seed upon the ground; whether he is married and lives 
a life of prostitution with his wedded wife, or commits solitary 
vices; or if he commits Sodomism, the Rite of Gomorrah, or any 
of the other unspeakable rites. The result is the same, with but 
one difference. One act may be far more beastly than the other. 
For instance, Sodomism is far more degrading in the very thought 
than is the practice of men and women who, asuming the Mar- 34 
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riage Rite, do not finish that sacred act because of the fear that 
children may result. Through such an act is engendered hatred 
against each other, disease and sorrow, misery and ultimate 
death. 
It is this universal disobedience to the command of Moses 
that is responsible for most of the misery in the world. Because 
through this men and women continually prostitute themselves, 
and drain the very life forces, casting them aside as so much 
rubbish. By this act, though a carnal passion is satisfied and a 
moment's pleasure indulged, the result is moral weakness and 
physical and mental degradation. Contrary to much that has 
been taught by those who do not clearly understand this subject, 
we hold that the sex appetite is not something abnormal, not 
something which came to Man gradually as he fell from his high 
estate. "Male and female created He them," hence there must 
have been the creative organs of the male and the female, and 
God would not have created these functions if they were not to 
be used. Moreover, it is unreasonable to think that desire was 
not given man and woman at the same time, because without 
desire use is not made of a thing. We, therefore, must exclude 
the unnatural and unreasonable teachings which would lead us 
to believe that sex appetite did not come to Man until after he 
had become degraded. 
It is such teachings as these that cause people to assume that 
sex desire is unnatural and unholy, and which induces them to 
suppress, in order to be spiritual, the desire, thus stifling natural 
impulse and creating an abnormal condition, which generally 
leads to and ends in unnatural and degrading vices and prac- 
tices. 
We contend that there is nothing impure in sex, or the 
creative organs, that there is nothing unnatural in normal desire. 
But we also maintain that there may be wrong use made of the 
creative function, and that it is this which ends in sorrow, mis- 
ery and death. It is the unnatural and degrading uses to which 
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function itself. One must learn to differentiate right use from 
wrong, abuse and non-use. 
We condemn the harmful teachings that sex desire is de- 
structive to the spiritual nature in Man. The contrary is true, 
although it must be clearly understood that the creative desire be 
normal, and that Man must not indulge for pleasure only; but 
rather that he shall hold his desires in strict abeyance and make 
use of his powers only for the purpose of either generation or 
regeneration. 
It is because of these pernicious teachings, leading people to 
believe that normal sex desire is destructive to the spiritual 
nature in Man, that so many go the Path of Death. On the one 
hand there are those who would kill out all desire and thereby 
destroy the very source of power in Man, the very foundation for 
his spiritual regeneration and redemption. On the other hand, 
we have the advocates of license and unbridled passion, who 
would give free reign to their desires in promiscuous relation- 
ships and free love,-a thing which damns the soul in Man and 
makes moral lepers. 
The desires of sex are to the human being what steam is 
to the engine. The greater the amount of steam the greater the 
power of the engine, provided always that the steam is forced 
along the proper channels and under control. Similarly, the 
greater the creative power in Man, together with normal desire, 
the greater are his possibilities for achievements, provided also 
that the power is directed along right use, i. e. for generation and 
regeneration, and under control. 
That sex or creative desires are normal is proven to us by 
the animal, which while it does not desire carnal intercourse 
(intercourse for mere pleasure or base passion) nevertheless does 
seek satisfaction when in season. And this is not the nature of 
the animal itself, but it is nature within the animal, which, at the 
proper time, awakens in order to perpetuate its specie. Some 
thinkers do not seem to grasp the difference between Man and the 
animal; that the animal seeks satisfaction while under the lunar 36 
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rule, while in the human it must be sought after the lunar rule. 
And, instead of being a matter of from one to seven days as in 
most animals, it is a matter of from twenty-five to twenty-seven 
days in the human creation. 
There has been that which desire has not been able to ac- 
complish in the animal that it has accomplished in the human. 
It is the diabolical reasoning which leads the male to leave the 
female when the male is passion satisfied, or because the female 
requests it. It is not on account of sex desire that Man has 
fallen to a condition lower than the beasts, but on account of the 
abominal and degrading practices to which he indulges his 
appetites. 
Truth is often unpleasant, especially so when the sex ques- 
tion is under discussion. However, if we are real men and 
women, and not weaklings and degenerates, we will be willing 
to reason and consider the whole subject from all angles. 
The normal healthy man will have a time for all things. 
Although he may be the most powerful being in the universe, he 
should not think of satisfying his creative appetite except 
at the proper time. If he does then there is some weakness, 
some disease lurking within himself; and he should at once 
begin a searching investigation. Generally it is assumed that 
we are to partake of three meals a day. Assuming this to be 
correct, if in normal health, we feel hungry at the right time; we 
are ready to eat and are filled (satisfied). But no one would 
commit himself to the fallacy that because we do eat three times 
a day that we are continually dwelling on the subject. This may 
be true in some cases, but the person is neither healthy nor nor- 
mal. There is a serious defect somewhere. The normal healthy 
man pursues his business, profession or vocation and seldom 
thinks of food except at the proper time; and it is in like manner 
that the normal, healthy and vitally strong man thinks of his 
creative power. He is normal; he is healthy; and he is dis- 
eased neither morally nor spiritually. Consequently, he never 
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time and under proper conditions and for the purpose of gen- 
eration or regeneration. 
It is sad to contemplate the many who live to eat and drink, 
and the more numerous class who go so far as to take drugs to 
rid the body of the things eaten and drunk, so that they may 
again indulge the appetite. These are on a par with the man 
who exercises his creative powers with woman and stops short 
of actual satisfaction and does not complete the rite in order that 
he may again enjoy the carnal pleasure shortly. But these in 
the end find that they have wasted the very life principle, aye, 
the power to even enjoy! 
With the true man love should be the attractive power. The 
true, normal and healthy male never for a moment considers it 
possible or desirable to mate with a woman he does not love. 
With primitive Man there was but one consideration and the 
object was procreation. He had absolutely no knowledge that 
the human soul could reach immortality and possessed no spirit- 
ual conception. 
He may have felt love for his mate and he may have de- 
sired children; but beyond that his reasoning power did not carry 
him. And it may even be as in the animal kingdom, his mate 
having but one certain period in which she desired the embrace. 
In this case the male knew no other law than obedience to the 
female. No longer are we primitive people, although in some 
respects we are worse and far more degraded. We have at least 
the reasoning power, the comprehension and the understanding 
that there is something more in Man than simply his desire to 
live, to eat and to procreate. We feel within ourselves that we 
are dual; that while we desire as humans to live and to enjoy 
and give enjoyment, we are constantly looking for the ideal 
and to obey the laws which may lead us into the beyond. All 
of this the primitive man missed as does the animal. Therefore, 
it is entirely illogical to reason sex matters from the standpoint 
of the primitive man. 
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to copy from the primitive people. For instance, we may learn 
that promiscuous intercourse is a destructive agent and that he 
who mates in this manner, he who mixes his magnetism, is sure 
to reap death and disease. 
The primitive man was satisfied with the affection of but 
one woman; on this account, his passions did not become in- 
flamed, as is the result at present when men mix with women, as 
they mix their food and their drink. For, be it known that when 
man or woman attempts to hold sex embrace with more than one 
person within a limited time, the whole blood becomes sur- 
charged with the mixed magnetism, or call it what you will that 
is exchanged during such embrace. The result of this being a 
fire of the blood, thus causing continuous desire for embraces. 
It fires the whole creative function, causing man or woman to 
seek embrace after embrace, until either consumption or impo- 
tence is the result. It is for this reason that the girl of the streets 
has but five years at the most to live. 
The life of the primitive man might teach the man of today 
the greatest of all laws, the one which Moses tried to teach his 
people in order to save them from the fearful diseases to which 
they were subjected, arising from the fact that when man once 
begins the sexual embrace he has no right to leave that embrace 
until both he and she are fully satisfied. To break this law is 
both to damn and be damned. 
There is one thing that the great mass of men have not as 
yet learned, and that is, that he has not the slightest right, even 
though wedded, to embrace the woman unless he does so in love. 
For, to court the embrace when mere passion and desire is the 
incentive is to commit the most diabolical act that Man can per- 
form. This results in mutual hate, sex weakness and ends in 
impotence. If a child be the issue, it may be a weakling, an 
idiot or with tendencies to insanity. 
This is written when the Country is at war; when youths 
are being examined; startlingly demonstrating to us that less 
than fifty per cent of the young men are fit for army duty. Is HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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this not a terrible indictment of modern life? The cause is to 
be found first in our careless and thoughtless system of dietetics, 
and second and more especially, in our national sex life, where 
the greater portion of our children are the results of accident 
rather than premeditated intention. 
The sex function with all its powers is the highest and great- 
est gift God gave to Man. It peoples the earth with his chil- 
dren. It enables Man to lift himself up into immortality. It 
is the potent factor for youth, health, beauty and longevity. But 
the abuse of its function is the cause, and has always been of 
all the fearful things that have come upon humanity. In fact 
all these appalling happenings to Man have been as punish- 
ments. If one desires a vivid picture of the results of such 
abuses, he need but read the Biblical narrative of Moses with the 
children of Israel in the Wilderness when disease threatened 
the destruction of the entire race, and was saved only through the 
symbolic raising of the serpent. 
Right use of any power, assuming that the right use also 
includes normal use, is the means to greater power; but the abuse 
of any power leads to gradual weakening and ultimate destruc- 
tion or rather dissipation of that power. This is especially true 
with regard to sex. 
There is still another law which should govern man in his 
relationship with woman besides the one already mentioned. 
While it is true that the greatest law that should govern the true 
sexual embrace is love, it is also equally true that he must ap- 
proach her with her consent, or prepare her through caresses and 
those endearments so much desired and appreciated by all true 
women. Many a woman who is practically dormant in her de- 
sires may readily be aroused to the heights of love passion 
through little caresses. No man has a right to possess a woman 
until he has first aroused her to desire as he desires. Therefore, 
the base of all true sex relationship is Love and mutual consent. 
It is only in this manner that it is possible for healthy, 
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that, if all children were created under these two laws, in two 
generations there would be no insane, no idiots, no criminals and 
no weaklings born. Provided that accidents do not occur during 
pregnancy, where love and mutual consent is the base, moral and 
mental weaklings among children are impossible. 
We strongly advise against the practice of many men called 
husbands taking forcible possession of their wives. This con- 
stitutes rape in the true sense of the word just as much as when 
man attempts it on other women than his wife. 
White slavery with all its horrors is today no worse and no 
greater a cause of misery than is the prostitution between mil- 
lions of married man and women who do not love each other, and 
who, in many instances, hate each other. To court sex embrace 
when love and mutual consent is absent is prostitution whether 
it be among married couples or not. A white slave is one who, 
contrary to her own desires, is made a prisoner and who is forced 
to receive attentions which she does not desire and which she 
hates until in time she becomes degenerate enough to follow the 
immoral life on her own account. Where then is there a differ- 
ence between the white slave and the married woman, who for 
one reason or another, permits favors which are revolting to her 
nature, while hating her husband? Not alone is the woman the 
sufferer, the man too suffers, although the incentive is different, 
but the ultimate result is the same in both. 
Although we state that woman, more especially the married 
woman, has become the slave of the passions of her husband; 
and, freely admit this to be true in countless cases; what of the 
numberless instances where the husband truly loves his wife; 
where he obeys the full law, never approaching her except with 
caresses and with her consent; but who, time and again, is al- 
lowed the privilege only under condition that he promise to be 
"careful"? In other words, only after he promises to do the 
thing that Moses forbade under penalty of the death of the soul, 
and, who because he loves and desires, complies with the request 
only to find that for some reason unknown to him, she becomes 
less lovable and more irritable, harder to please, unsatisfied and 
fault-finding. He in turn also comes to care less for her and 
himself becomes weaker and gradually comes to dispise his 
sexual desires and to finally condemn the rite. THE PATH OF DEATH 
Part Two 
Sex perversion, the path that leads to death, seems to be in 
itself a perversion, as manifested to us by the white slave traffic, 
which is not founded so much upon the demand for women for 
immoral purposes as it is upon the want for young and innocent 
girls. This demand usually comes from rich men who have 
become so thoroughly satiated with the common abuse of their 
creative functions that they begin to hunger for something out 
of the ordinary. Most of these men actually stand as fine ex- 
amples of mortality in their own community and are the cause of 
countless young and innocent girls being initiated into a life of 
beastliness and brutality, the victims of perverted beasts called 
men. However, it is not elderly men alone who reach this stage 
in sex abuse, but the practice is to be found extensively carried 
on by young men with abnormal desires, usually of the wealthy 
class, who can afford the expense in securing young victims. 
This leads us to seek the reason for such conditions. For 
the most part, if we are prepared to accept the truth, we would 
find that the parents of a son with these tastes were themselves 
perverts; or, that the child was undesired, and was cursed in 
thought throughout the days of pregnancy. However, in many 
cases the cause is perversion in the parents, either one or both. 
How to remedy this destructive and demoralizing condition 
is the great problem which confronts us and which must be 
solved and remedied if the Nation itself is to be saved from dis- 
integrating and falling, for sex perversion carried on by a large 
percentage of a people leads to the crumbling away of the very 
foundation stones of society. History teaches us that when sex 
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is the cancer that destroys the very heart of a people and has 
been the main cause of the downfall of the great nations of the 
earth. 
There are, of course, possibilities where it is not the fault 
of the parents that the young man becomes a pervert; but these 
are the exception and not the rule; and even in such it will be 
found, as in many cases of syphilis, that it may have been in- 
herited from grandparents or even great grandparents. 
To suggest a remedy which will dispel the ignorance that 
pervades among mankind relative to creative functions, it necessi- 
tates teaching mankind the sacredness of sex, to begin with, and 
the fearful penalty that must be paid by all who abuse their 
creative power. Only through this can we hope to regenerate the 
race and bring about a better and healthier civilization on earth. 
Let us consider the girl who becomes the victim of white 
slavery. It is admitted without question that she suffers all the 
tortures that have been pictured. But is it true that she is en- 
tirely blameless, that she had not herself taken a step in that 
direction? Superficially it appears to be true, while some girls 
are enticed away from family and friends, others, more beautiful 
and attractive, are not so easily deluded into the path that dooms. 
To seek deeper for the cause of a girl's downfall is to find that 
there is some desire for adventure, and that pleasure, jewelry or 
clothes has been the lure of girls who have not been satisfied with 
their homes and their friends and the ordinary pleasures that 
their communities afford. They look with longing eyes to the 
things not to be had at home. 
What is the result? When the stranger comes to town it is 
this class of girls who first notice him and open the way for an 
acquaintance. These men, well trained in the wiles of enticing 
girls, shrewdly find out the dissatisfaction and fan the imagina- 
tion of the dissatisfied girl, to a point where they can get them 
to do almost anything. While in most cases these girls are hon- 
orable at heart they are easily led astray by false promises of 
marriage. HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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But seeking deeper the cause of this dissatisfaction with 
their homes and their environment and their apparent careless- 
ness in forming acquaintances with strangers without proper in- 
troductions and consent of their parents, we find the cause is 
much like that in the case of the perverted young man. Parents 
live a life of prostitution although legally married. The wife 
consents to the husband because he demands it, simply because 
she wants support, clothing, luxury and a home. In a great 
many cases there is no real love between them and the marriage 
rite is sought for pleasure only. From his standpoint he may 
give in to her, or because she demands it, or because he thinks it 
his duty. From hers, she chooses the easier way by selling her- 
self for the comforts that it brings her or because she wants to 
avoid the scandal of a divorce. Whether it be the fault of one 
or the other or both, the fact remains that the marriage rite is 
degraded in that either one or both prostitute their creative pow- 
ers for what it brings them and not because love is the base. 
Prostitution is prostitution whether they be married or not. 
This results ultimately in children not wanted, not born right, 
not born of true love with love for the pure and true, but who 
are born dissatisfied and with a hunger for that which is unat- 
tainable in the home environment. There is not born in their 
heart a desire for the true and the real things in life. Because of 
this these children do not receive proper care and training. 
We venture to state that assuming a man and wife love each 
other, desire children and have a true knowledge of the right ap- 
plication of creative laws, a girl born under such conditions, if 
correctly taught without sham, will never fall a prey to white 
slavers except in rare cases, such as abduction. In that case, she 
will never become a white slave because to her life it not worth 
as much as honor. While she may dishonor herself if she really 
loved a man, she cannot be dishonored when she does not love. 
Where shall we seek a cure for these great evils in order to 
save the race? Shall we stop at punishing the guilty ones, the 
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days? It is commendable but hardly sufficient. For, like all 
modern remedies, it merely treats of effects leaving the cause 
operative. We must seek to remove the cause. We must teach 
the present and coming generations the laws of their being. By 
teaching parents their creative power, and by inculcating true 
knowledge among girls and boys, we can make it impossible, to 
a large extent, for sex perverts to be born, and for girls to be 
tempted by that which is unreal. The girl that is born right and 
taught right will never open the way for anyone to betray her; 
and this is her salvation and protection. If the boy is born right 
and taught true manhood and the protection of womanhood he 
will never entice and degrade womanhood. Where meanness 
and perversions are not born in the heart of the boy and girl it is 
almost impossible for them to manifest it in the sex relationship. 
There is no excuse for the fearful ignorance pervading man- 
kind regarding the abuse of the creative forces in Man. We 
can no longer plead that it is wrong to teach our children these 
matters because of the fear that they may make a wrong use of 
the knowledge. This plea might have had some force in the 
distant past, but at present it is impotent. Any boy or girl who 
can read soon finds in the newspapers plainly written news of 
this or that scandal. In fact, the average newspaper of today 
is a text book of crime and immorality. And if this is permitted 
our children in their teens, why should we not teach them the 
brighter side of creative power, that side which is an honor to 
God and the uplifting of mankind? We allow our newspapers 
to tell our children horrible tales of crime and immorality due to 
perversions where the tales are not even thinly veiled but boldly 
stated in plain English. Then we refuse to enlighten our off- 
spring on the purpose of their creative organism, and to teach 
them the true knowledge so that they may preserve their honor 
and purity and guard themselves against the pitfalls and the dis- 
eases, sorrows and misery consequent on the abuse of these 
functions. Surely it is far more desirable and noble to teach 
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from which they might have been saved had they been properly 
taught. 
Who are the judges sitting in judgment that declare we 
shall not teach the holy truth? With rare exception it is those 
who themselves have abused their Creative powers; consequently, 
they know of the dark side only, and not the good, the pure, the 
noble. Or, it may be those whose nature has always been cold 
and unforbidding and cannot see anything but wrong in the 
nature which is warm, sensitive and normal, as the great Creator 
intended it to be. 
The great awakening is at hand, that awakening among 
mankind generally to the comprehension that the creative func- 
tion in man is for good, pure and noble purposes; for the better- 
ment of Man rather than for his degradation; that if the race is 
to be saved prompt action will be necessary, otherwise the very 
foundation of life will have become so far weakened that cleans- 
ing and strengthening will become utterly impossible. 
There is another reason why men shun the light pertaining 
to sex and its powers. Mankind generally has for so long consid- 
ered the creative organism for no other purpose than for procrea- 
tion and pleasure that they cannot bring themselves to a compre- 
hension of the deeper and holier significance and uses of the 
functions. They cannot come to a realization of the fact that 
anyone can be pure in thought or intention who would deliber- 
ately bring about a frank discussion of the sex question. More- 
over, they do not understand that a new age regarding this prob- 
lem has set in. Whereas, sex has stood for carnal pleasure first 
and procreation last as a mere accident, for the most part, it is 
now to stand for procreation of desired, wanted and welcomed 
children, and for regeneration founded upon a basis of love and 
pleasure or enjoyment, but not the carnal and degrading pleasure 
so often in forms as would shame the brute to say nothing of 
Him who created the sexes for holy purposes and who looked and 
saw that all was good. The sooner mankind can be brought to 
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can convince the more intelligent classes among whom honor still 
rules that such is our purpose, the quicker we will be able to start 
the new race marching onward to greater things, purer lives and 
nobler manhood. 
The great question confronting us is where to begin; but 
undoubtedly the initiative should be with the daughter; and the 
time is just as soon as she is able to understand and ask ques- 
tions. We must teach her, make her understand and believe that 
she is God's most beautiful and most sacred handiwork and that 
with her rests the restoration of the race to its primitive purity 
but with an exalted personality. We must teach her all that con- 
cerns herself; why she is what she is; for what purpose she was 
created; how she must guard and protect herself; that above all 
she must not permit any liberties to be taken with herself; and 
that she is to be normal and natural, a delightful companion, a 
good partner, and in all things, demand respect to herself and 
her creative power. She must be taught what her rights are as 
well as the rights of man, what she may demand, but also what 
may be demanded of her and with what she should comply. She 
must be taught the power that resides in her department of crea- 
tion and how she must use it in the creation of the beginning of 
a superior race. In short, she must be taught the glory of her 
being, but also her weakness that she may guard herself against 
advantage being taken of those weaknesses. 
Let us save the girl and teach her to save herself and never 
to lower herself for any cause. In a redeemed womanhood lies 
the redemption of the race from degradation, savagery, war and 
misery. In the womb of woman is God's laboratory out of which 
is fashioned mankind. When we have begun to redeem woman- 
hood we have started a new and better race. 
The great moral cancer that is eating out the heart of man- 
kind is to be found in the almost universal practice of promiscu- 
ous sex relationship. When we can come to the time when it 
shall be the exception rather than the rule for men to have carnal 
intercourse with more than one woman, within a certain time, HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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then we will have gone far towards freeing mankind from the 
fire which is consuming it. The man who has lived a normal 
life, but because of the coldness of his wife, oversteps the moral 
code and looks with favor upon another woman, especially the 
woman for sale, begins at once to fill his blood with a poison, a 
fire which no water can quench; and, if he is foolish enough to 
return to his wife and hold sexual congress with her, he will 
inoculate her with the virus; and children that are born there- 
after will be filled with this fire. Is it any wonder that we sel- 
dom see a normal boy or girl knowing that almost the whole 
world is now filled with this unholy fire. 
v The greatest crime that man can commit against himself 
and his future progeny is to hold sexual embrace with more than 
one woman within a limited time. But a still greater crime is 
it for woman to do this; because she will take into herself direct- 
ly the different fires which will act like two chemicals which do 
not mix in a retort. We do not wish it understood we make 
the statement that all men are unfaithful to the one woman, wife 
or sweetheart, or that all women are unfaithful to their hus- 
bands. We have reference here only to that vast army of men 
and women who make a practice of having congress with more 
than one person within a limited time. 
If it is impossible for a man to arouse his wife through 
caresses and other natural means to consent willingly to his em- 
brace, he should not force her to comply to his requests but give 
her freedom. And, if he should not be able to control his desires 
and seeks the embrace of another woman, he should not, under 
any circumstances, while such relations last, have any relations 
with his wife; for if he does, he will carry to her the magnetism, 
Lochia, personality, call it what you will, and this foreign and 
hostile matter will enter her system to set a fire and fever within 
her ;and if a child should result, there would be born within her, 
if a girl, a taint of weakness as a candidate for another victim of 
the red light district, and, if a boy, a restlessness that nothing 
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desire to be faithful to one woman, the taint within him will not 
allow him but lead him to tire of one woman and seek satisfac- 
tion with others. The dire consequences of attempting to har- 
monize two forces by a woman is far more disastrous to herself 
than it is with a man, because the contamination resultant from 
attempting to serve both husband and lover is even more direct 
and lasting. 
Many moral and honest men, who at a moment of forget- 
fulness allow themselves to be led astray find thereafter all their 
thoughts, opinions and ideas changed. They are unable to be 
contented with the old conditions which formerly satisfied them. 
They are unable to find the cause for this dissatisfaction and 
irritation which becomes so great that it leads them to part with 
the woman they formerly loved. Similarly, the woman who, at a 
moment of forgetfulness or through the intercession of a "good 
friend," leaves the straight and narrow path, engenders a fever 
within herself that gives her no rest or peace and leads to her 
downfall. 
There is one great law that must be obeyed if health, happi- 
ness and peace is to be had-absolute faithfulness to one mate 
and perfect purity regarding the exercise of the creative function. 
The right, pure and holy use of this energy is the key to race 
redemption, while its abuse leads to degeneracy, misery and wars. THE SEX PURITY OF THE GIRL 
Much has been said and written on the waywardness of the 
girl. These questions are asked times without number: "Why 
do girls go astray? Why do girls, with seeming deliberateness, 
choose the wrong path?" Most, if not all of them, know the 
difference between good and evil; they know the status of the 
fallen woman; through instinct and education, they know that the 
virgin girl has a hundred chances to one of happiness and marri- 
age against those of sullied name. It does not occur to the in- 
quirer that right training and a correct understanding of her 
nature might save the girl; that if the girl knew the value of the 
sex impulse, and was taught the nature of the desire and incen- 
tive to mate, she would be protected, not only against the men 
who woo, but against herself. She would be in the position of a 
general of a protected garrison. Supplied with knowledge of 
the defenses of women, and an understanding of the nature of 
the foes surrounding her, she would be in a position to maintain 
her virginity. 
Thousands of mothers of exceptional character and broad- 
mindedness are at a loss to instruct their daughters. Above all 
things they wish to keep the girl pure and innocent, but at the 
same time, they do not want to dull the desire and charm of the 
maiden by suppressing the fullness of life found in the healthy 
young. 
Evil is relative. There are degrees in the so-called "fall" 
of women. A girl may fall and not be bad; she may fall and 
become bad; or fall from very badness. The moral fiber of the 
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Many girls retrieve themselves, take their place in respectable 
society, become good wives and mothers. Others follow the 
downward path to disease and swift death. 
But there are conditions in life to be more feared than loss 
of innocence. There are secret, morbid, solitary habits infinitely 
worse than the performance of the sex act outside the pale of 
matrimony. For the latter there is every hope of reform and a 
useful life. But those girls who become the victims of unnatural 
acts and desires, are incapable of becoming satisfactory wives 
and mothers. The moral fiber disintegrates and the road to 
imbecility and crime and degeneration soon entered upon. 
Two reasons may be advanced for the downfall of women: 
Love and money. In ninety per cent of the cases it is safe to 
say that the first step is taken for love, or that emotion most 
human beings mistake for love. As she nears womanhood, the 
girl awakens to the desire to love and be loved. She feels stir- 
ring within her that most divine of all passions, the passion of 
giving herself for love. Women go to greater extremes than men. 
She deifies the object of her love, bestowing upon him every god- 
like quality, and is easily persuaded that her love must be proved 
to the uttermost. Her motive is pure. She is actuated by im- 
pulses as old as mankind, and dimly understood. It is impossi- 
ble for some natures to think they are committing a wrong act 
when they consent "for loves' sake." 
Some women, with highly-organized religious natures, deify 
their love. They think of their feeling of love, as they would 
think of a person. We find a proof of this deification and per- 
sonification in Gasgrain's "Vie de Marie de I'Incarnation." 
Marie, of the confession, is willing to give up life itself that her 
desire for divine love might be fulfilled. She says: "Going to 
prayer, I trembled in myself and exclaimed, 'Let us go into a 
solitary place, my dear love, that I may embrace you, at my ease, 
and that, breathing my soul into you, it may be but yourself only, 
in the union of love. Oh, my love, when shall I embrace you? 
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alas, my love, my beauty, my life! instead of healing my pain, 
you take pleasure in it. Come, let me embrace you, and die in 
your sacred arms. Then, as I was spent with fatigue, I was 
forced to say, 'My divine love, since you wish me to live, I pray 
you let me rest a little, that I may better serve you,' and I prom- 
ised him that afterward I would suffer myself to consume in his 
chaste and divine embrace." We are dealing, however, with the 
moral, healthy young woman, not one with an hectic, religious, 
unbalanced mind. 
Every mother knows, if she gives it a thought, that sex 
awakening must come to her daughter. She cannot fail to re- 
member the general drift of her own experience. Intimate sex 
knowledge is necessary to the life of every woman. The step 
from maidenhood to womanhood with its unfoldment and possi- 
bilities must not be looked upon as a condition to be suppressed, 
crushed, ignored, or covered with apology. It is not unholy, not 
unnatural. Quite the opposite. No greater blessing was ever be- 
stowed upon woman than this most holy and desirable feeling. It 
is a promise, given in advance, of her value to the race. Through 
this sex impulse she may add to the sum total of human happi- 
ness, become a channel for the birth of other human beings, and 
hasten her own evolution, or she may bring misery to herself and 
the unborn, and delay her own progress. The results will be in 
exact accordance with what she has been taught, or allowed to 
think, of the mystery of her own being. 
Mothers must not shrink from the positive duty they owe 
their daughters. The cause, nature, and effect of sex must be 
fully explained, not in evasions and innuendoes, but in plain 
English terms. When this is done thoroly, the girl is furnished 
with the weapon of knowledge. It is sometimes feared that too 
open a discussion over-reaches the result desired; that the young 
are induced by curiosity to investigate hidden paths. This is not 
a sane argument. If the subject is stripped of its false, ingenu- 
ous, secret coverings; if it is presented in .a normal, unprejudiced 
manner, it will curb any undue interest. The beautiful, useful, 52 
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hideous, damning phases-all of them-must be dwelt upon. 
Knowledge may add intenseness to the girl's nature, but innate 
goodness will compel her to follow the right direction. Girls are 
not led to their ruin through knowledge. Ignorance is the danger 
signal of doom. 
There is one manifestation of sex, (often assisting in the 
undoing of a girl) scarcely, if ever, discussed; that is, the in- 
stinctive mother-love nature, the property of all females. The 
moment a woman loves, that moment she begins to serve. It is 
natural for her to long to supply all his wants, socially, mentally, 
physically. His comfort and well-being becomes her aim in life, 
and if she is ignorant, the whisperings of conscience will avail 
but little against his pleadings. He is restless and unhappy and 
she gives him herself-an unconscious sacrifice. The call of sex 
in her, while it plays a great part, is not the sole reason of her 
compliance. It is said that a perfect wife is half mother. She 
looks after her husband as she would a child, gives him any 
thing he wants, in, or out of season. No matter what he de 
mands, she is ready to grant it to make him happy. An ex- 
planation of this side of her nature must be made to a girl to 
guard her against sacrifice. The now is not the accepted time to 
prove her love in all ways to the man of her choice. 
The real purposes and usages of the creative nature are not 
known to one girl in a thousand. They do not understand their 
sex nature, and what information they possess has been gained 
from unreliable sources, from companions as ignorant as them- 
selves. These topics are usually discussed insincerely or with 
uncleanness, in a furtive, secretive way. 
Because of this fact, there is but one thing to be done to 
prevent the thousands upon thousands of girls being led astray; 
to prevent thousands upon thousands of girls being led by, and 
into, love, blindfolded. Children are reached through the parents. 
The fathers and mothers must be taught the laws and powers 
and uses of sex; taught also, the penalty of disobeying sex laws, 
through ignorance or choice. When the fathers and mothers a.K« HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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imbued with the sublimity of all God's creation, and no depart- 
ment is more sublime than this one in which He makes us co- 
creators with Him; when the fathers and mothers realize this 
sublimity and couple it with knowledge, then are they in a posi- 
tion to clear the path that the young may walk therein and be 
safe. But so long as parents possess only the sensational, dis- 
torted sex information of their own youth; so long as they think 
this subject ought to be handled in a veiled, obscure, secretive 
way; so long as they ridicule public education along these lines, 
just so long they, the parents, are to blame for the sin and shame 
and suffering in the world today. 
Up to the present time the public has considered it a crime 
against morality to teach sex truths, in the face of the fact that 
the lack of this knowledge is the prolific cause of the existing 
state of evil. Think of it! The twentieth century! And men 
and women being imprisoned for attempting to light the lamp of 
knowledge; being placed behind bars for spreading abroad sim- 
ple truths about the most important function in all life; being 
branded as degraded criminals for teaching the young the way 
to purity and health and happiness! God pity men for the 
stupendous arrogance of their ignorance' God pity men for 
their colossal egotism! 
The time is not many generations off when this deplorable 
condition shall be reversed. Men shall be held responsible for 
the education of their families. Men shall be considered crimi- 
nals who fail in this duty. Parents shall receive punishment 
for the proven ignorance of their children. 
What opinion would we entertain of the man or woman who 
gave a boy or girl an intricate piece of machinery, compelling 
that child to make use of it, yet withholding the key to its power ? 
Supposing that machine combined both life-giving and death- 
dealing qualities; would you not feel an abhorence for the per- 
son who would refuse to give one word of instruction or warn- 
ing? Carry it still farther. Imagine this same parent standing 
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"parental authority" about it-menacing the competent men and 
women on the outside who are pleading for the privilege of in- 
structing the child in this instrument of life and death. Is that 
not an appalling picture? 
Suppose if a mother knew that her daughter possessed some 
great talent. Would she assist the girl to dedicate it to the devil, 
after having been told that sin, disease, misery and death would 
be the consequence? Would she not rather rejoice and hold on 
high the mighty gift, praising it, developing it according to its 
holy uses, thereby bringing joy, power, health and beauty to the 
daughter she loved? 
Would one willingly allow one's children to play with a 
viper? Would not one's heart contract with a horrible fear at 
the thought of its fangs and poison? Yet careless parents, bru- 
tally indifferent, shut their eyes to plain, unvarnished facts. 
They leave their children to the malignant influences of ignor- 
ance, and then, with streaming eyes, bewail their fate, and im- 
peach the Father of All-good, when a daughter selects a brothel 
for a home, or gives birth to a nameless child, or dies a lingering 
death from a loathsome disease. Whom, think you, will suffer 
the greater punishment in the adjustment of human affairs? 
The parent. 
The basis of sex instruction should be holiness. There is 
nothing unholy in sex. The only profane thing to be found in 
the subject is the wrong thought of prejudiced, ignorant people, 
and the ignoble uses to which sex may be put. It is not enough 
to point out the swift penalty which follows the debasing of the 
sex function, but the pure, sacred side should be enlarged upon, 
and the blessings which the right use of sex bestows. The facts 
and possibilities for good or evil concerning the generative or- 
gans should be taught minutely. Every dark, secret corner of 
the subject should be exposed to the light of knowledge. Trust 
no point to chance. 
Parents and teachers should search their own hearts for the 
slightest trace of an early thought of impurity. Many who are HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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now invaluable as leaders and teachers in this movement have 
learned these lessons after having reached maturity, or through 
great personal suffering and readjustment. They all, as with 
one voice, declare the necessity of maintaining a pure thought- 
world, for the young are psychically expert in catching the least 
hint of shame, and in that case, the effect of the teachers work 
is lessoned. 
Of all the many false conceptions concerning sex and its 
functions, that of repression is one of the worst. It has been 
taught, more by inference than by actual words, that a woman is 
coarse and unwomanly if she allows sex desire to manifest itself. 
Many women think they should not possess feeling; that if they 
do, it should be covered up and denied; that they should be 
ashamed of it. Many women think it unbecoming to display any 
emotion, even with a husband; they deem it an ideal condition to 
act as a mere machine, giving all and receiving nothing in re- 
turn. This idea of passivity of sex in women is well-nigh uni- 
versal. From it may be traced ninety per cent of the degrading 
practices of women, (we know where-of we speak), and of the 
illnesses peculiar to women. 
If the mother is in that state of repression where her na- 
tural instincts are dead; if she is incapable of teaching her 
daughter the truth, then she should secure the services of one 
who can. The girl has every right to as much sensation as a 
man. God gave passion equally to the male and the female. 
The coldness of repression is unnatural. Under no condition 
should natural desires be denied and repressed and heaped with 
shame. They should only be held in check, controlled until the 
time arrives for the right expression of her most intense feeling. 
Repression leads to unnatural physical and emotional condi- 
tions, and if continued, natural desire will become degraded, or 
perverted, or lost entirely. 
Some men inconsistently subscribe to the theory that women 
should repress, and then condemn them for being cold. Men 
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equality in this matter. Men have not arrived at the point where 
they understand the necessity of passion in women. Such men 
are tied to the past and consider it an immodest situation when 
women meet them with feeling, demanding an equal exchange. 
Girls must be taught that a normal, controlled sex power is 
forever creative. She does not have to wait until marriage and 
the birth of children to prove it. If the sex manifestations are 
not abused; that is, if she lives in a natural, normal happy man- 
ner, her sex power creates strength and beauty of body, and 
brilliancy of mind. It aids and adds to any talent she may pos- 
sess. It is the basis of all her beauty, the perfection of her form, 
the smoothness and the loveliness of the texture of her skin, the 
sweetness of her voice, the fire of the eye. 
When a girl understands that every part of her nature is 
God's gift to her to be used according to His law and direction, 
a sane and happy girl will not only admit all of this, but rejoice 
in it, and nothing will tempt her to debase or cheapen herself in 
any way. She must be taught that repression, or trying to root 
out, or kill any desire or function, is just as wrong as misuse. 
Her sole and only duty is to be mistress of herself; to control the 
passion that rises at times within her until she meets the right 
man and he proves his love by entering the married state with 
her. 
These questions are asked: "What are we to do with our 
daughters when they pass the dividing line between girlhood and 
womanhood? How are we to help our daughters, who are full 
of life and love and creative instinct, to control their desires?" 
By keeping the mind and heart busy through some occupa- 
tion. So long as they are wholesomely interested in work and 
play, they are safe. Treat your girls as you do your boys. Boys are 
active creatures and free themselves of excess energy by romping 
and playing games. Let the girl romp and be a tom-boy as long 
as she will. You never find the seeds of sex troubles in a tom- 
boy girl. When that stage is past, she must be given active work 
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be monotonous, or confined. Change is necessary. She must 
have interests and plans that take her daily into the open air. 
Above all she must be encouraged in what she undertakes, for it 
is imperative that she have an incentive to do things. 
Not all girls can be guided in this way. If they are quiet, 
sedendary, studious young women, the pursuit most interesting 
to them ought to be encouraged, and the more active physical ex- 
ercise not forced upon them. Music, painting, what ever it is, 
should be indulged, so long as individual fancy does not lead 
toward morbid things. 
Some girls respond to system in matters pertaining to the 
home. House work is diversified. One girl excels in cooking, 
another in sewing, and so on. In this age, the business world is 
open to them, and the salvation of many a girl has been accom- 
plished by fitting her for some department of woman's work in 
the great world of action. 
Interest is the magic word. Teach a girl sex laws, then 
keep her interested and the problem works itself out without a 
flaw. The moment a girl becomes dissatisfied, danger flies a 
signal. 
The duty of every mother is apparent. She should give as 
much, and as close, attention to the development of her daughter 
as the father does to business. A man watches each day's in- 
come and outcome, studies how to combat certain influences, how- 
to overcome some leakage or deficit, eternally vigilant. The 
mother's business is the daughter and she should apply herself in 
exactly the same way. If something goes wrong, know the cause. 
Substitute other occupations, other thoughts, other plans, other 
recreations. Be deft in the art of substitution. 
Too often the normal, healthy, full-blooded, active girl is 
deprived of innocent pleasure. She desires to visit a friend, 
attend the theatre, witness a ball game, go on a picnic, or to a 
party. It is usually the father, a generation behind his time, 
who objects. The mother is helpless in such cases. The girl is 
forced to stay at home, thrown back upon herself. Trouble 58 
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brews. This is a deplorable situation. The girl's desire for 
amusement is denied. Her mind resents and seeks an outlet for 
the dammed up current of energy. Imagination begins to work, 
and if evil companions or stories have opened the way, the devil 
steps in. The average, growing girl cannot be expected to put 
aside all pleasure easily. Noble, elevating thoughts do not 
sustain a girl at this time of life. If pleasure is constantly 
denied, solitary vices, or secret meetings with some undesirable 
of the opposite sex are likely to result. 
To sum up the matter, it stands like this: 
1. Teach the girl sex laws in detail and frankness. Pre- 
sent both sides clearly, the beautiful, fascinating, beneficial side, 
and its opposite. Invite questions and make your replies straight 
from the shoulder. Praise her (within reason) to assist her in a 
right valuation of herself. Make much of that treasure called 
exclusiveness. Be her friend and confidante. 
2. Work of an interesting nature. This may be temporary 
employment about the home, or the preliminary training for a 
vocation. Encourage the development of talents. Keep her from 
growing one-sided. Unless a girl has positive genius, it is better' 
to do fairly well several things. The clever, all-round women 
make the best wives and mothers. 
3. Exercise. This can be gotten in many ways. All kinds 
of games furnish it-tennis, rowing, walking, and so on. If 
none of these suffice, arrange for regular gymnastic work. The 
object is to keep her body agile and the blood circulating freely. 
4. Amusement. A most important part in the life of any 
girl. Pleasure should combine harmless recreation with elevat- 
ing tendencies. 
Girls find the downward path because their needs are not 
recognized and provided for by their natural guardians. Par- 
ents fail to teach them the truth about themselves and their sex 
nature. This neglect of the fathers and mothers cannot be made 
up in after life. During the formative period they will find out 
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things are false and degrading, coming from impure minds, and 
contaminate any young person. If the girl knows only untruths 
and acts upon them, she will find herself incapable of under- 
standing, of gaining, or holding true love. She will be con- 
demned to eat the husks of affection through life. 
Parents, in general, seem to make so little effort to under- 
stand their daughters; their feelings, their likes and dislikes, 
their inclinations, their weaknesses and strength. They give 
them too much, or too little to do; under-do or over-do the ques- 
tion of amusement. A sane, balanced, intelligent parent is a 
God-send to any child. How few there are! 
The girl of today is an independent creature. It will not 
do to suspect her motives, accuse her of indiscretion, or impute 
wrong action to mere folly and inexperience. 
Chiding, scolding, threatening, is wasted energy. Human 
beings are loved into goodness, not punished into it. Love your 
daughters into following your instructions and counsel, rather 
then command them. Have faith in your daughters. Trust 
them. Be their companion and partner. Keep forever before 
their minds that they are flowers in the Garden of Man and that 
God expects them to retain their sweetness and purity. 
Finally we repeat: When girls go wrong, place the blame 
where it belongs. The guilty one is not the inexperienced, frail 
little woman-flower but the parents and those in authority who 
prohibit the spreading of sex truths. 60 
HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT CONTINENCE 
Part One 
A Damnable Doctrine-and a Doctrine Which Damns. 
Were I asked to name the most harmful, destructive, de- 
grading, debasing, corrupt principle taught today by several of 
the philosophical and religious organizations, I should at once 
reply: "The doctrine of Continence." 
God made no mistake in His creation. To suppose that He 
created a department in life, instituted laws for its welfare and 
continuance, and then annulled them, is to impute to the Maker 
both indecision and lack of knowledge. Everything in nature is 
balanced-that is, dual. A one-sided condition does not exist. 
Man was created by and through the wisdom of the Creator. 
Male and female created He them, and we may rest assured He 
made no mistake. His plans for the human race contain no er- 
rors and man cannot improve upon the laws given him for his 
guidance and growth. If He had ordained that the Laws of sex 
were to be suspended; if He had ordained that the organs of sex 
were to be and remain inactive, would He have created them in 
such a manner? 
Granted that God created the sexes, the argument is ad- 
vanced that He intended them to be used solely for the purpose 
of procreation, that is, to produce the young through generation. 
Such an argument has not a leg to stand on. Nature is dual, an 
incontrovertible fact, and its methods of working out its laws 
prove it. God's plan of sex is also dual-dual in form and dual 
in purpose. The pendulum swings with equal precision both 
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is re-generation; the opposite of procreation is creation, or the 
re-creating of the self-being. To put it in the simplest language: 
Through sex, by generation, is brought about the propagation of 
the race, or the creating of life in another body; through sex, by 
re-generation is brought about the life "more abundant" in the 
self-body. Therefore, Sex is of just as much necessity to the 
individual as to the race and the welfare, growth and unfoldment 
of the individual is in exact ratio to the importance of populating 
the earth. Continence has no place in the Law of Life. 
If sex activity is a violation of the law of God, then all 
those who disobey that law must suffer the penalty. (We are 
now dealing with the normal man and woman, not perversions.) 
It is beyond dispute that men living in harmony with law, reap 
the benefits of such an obedience. For example: Men working 
in conjunction with the law of the physical body possess health; 
men working in unison with the law of prosperity have wealth 
and so on. The greater the harmony between God and man, the 
greater the good bestowed upon man. If non-use is the law of 
sex, then the comparatively few unmarried men and women of 
absolute chastity come under the bounty of the law, being "per- 
fect in the law" they should, and would be, gods and goddesses 
in greatness of power, beauty of person and development, to say 
nothing of vivacity and sweetness of disposition. Do facts prove 
this? Do the adherents of continence possess these qualifica- 
tions? Do we not more often find the approach of these char- 
acteristics in the happily married than in the unmarried ? Look- 
ing the matter fairly in the face, one must admit that the follow- 
ers of sex-continence usually exemplify unfortunate traits. 
To understand so complex and personal a subject, the many 
phases of this important matter must be investigated. 
Many people, otherwise intelligent, bring forth the inane 
argument that as animals cohabit only for the perpetuation of 
their specie, men should be satisfied with an imitation of the 
creatures of the lower order, and abandon the results of evolution 
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physical, spiritual nature. One might as well argue that the 
instincts and propensities of the cow or cat should serve as an 
example to the spiritually awakened, as to liken the demands of 
animal nature or plant life to those of the evolving human being. 
Nature has perfectly adjusted the requirements of the ani- 
mal and plant kingdoms to the laws of those realms. The line 
between man and beast is distinctly drawn and an equal distinc- 
tion exists in the laws governing them. Men are supposed to 
live in harmony with God, which includes all other harmonies. 
Animals and plants live in harmony with the purposes of nature. 
The great purpose of nature is reproduction. Consequently, the 
exercise of sex takes place only when this can be accomplished. 
Dominated by the law of her being, the female animal consents 
and conception occurs, while she is in heat. When the lunar 
period is past, she refuses all advances of the male, fighting if 
need be to free herself of these attentions. This attitude is in 
conformity wth the law governing animals and in no way ap- 
plies to higher beings. Possessing only the lower nature, the ani- 
mal has no possibility of re-generation. Therefore, there is no 
reason for sex activity except for conception. 
Human beings come under a different law. The human 
female does not conceive during the lunar season, but just before 
or directly after it. We say that conception does not take place 
during that period. By that we do not mean that it cannot, but 
that it should not. To conceive during this time is a crime 
against the Maker of the sex law; against the mother who con- 
sents or suffers it to occur; against the child born under such a 
condition. The results of conception during lunar period are 
always undesirable. An instance of this is given in the case of 
Esau. 
There is as much difference in the laws governing the 
demonstration of sex, between the human and the animal as there 
is in the matter of clothing or covering or in the kind and pre- 
paration of food. It is not only impossible but criminal to make 
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There are as many reasons against the practice of contin- 
ence as there are tones in the musical scale. We state here the 
most obvious, physical one. It matters not what the man's work 
may be, whether fatiguing bodily labor or nerve-exhausting 
study; it matters not how gross or spiritual his employment or 
vocation, how little he thinks or how philosophically, the body 
is in a continual process of refining the seminal fluid and storing 
it. Sooner or later this fluid, better called an elixir, must be 
used or removed. 
We employ the words "used" and "removed" advisedly- 
they express our exact meaning. Take the highest form of life 
which man is capable of living; the man of superior wisdom, one 
with a divine understanding of the laws of God, and through this 
knowledge knows how to use the seminal fluid for the regenera- 
tion of his self, his body; even then there will be a surplus and 
if this is not used in a natural manner, it must be removed from 
the system in some way, by the urine, or otherwise. If allowed 
to remain in the body it becomes stagnant and therefore poison- 
ous to the system. And what is more and worse, it has a dele- 
terious effect on the cellular tissue of the brain and the powers of 
will and discrimination are effected. This often results in the 
perversion of the sex function and ends in damnation. Physi- 
cal and mental health demands that the seminal elixir not used 
for creative purposes should be turned into other channels-that 
of regeneration and in renewing life and strength. 
The higher the conception a man has of the qualities and 
destinies of the human race, the higher will be his recognition of 
the powers and parts of the individual. Conclusions are based 
on a true foundation when man admits that he was created with 
a powerful sex nature to be used in wise and holy ways. To 
limit that use; to confine its action to the purposes of reproduc- 
tion is abnormal. 
The laws of God and nature do not limit man. The seminal 
fluid is created in abundance in the system and if a man followed 
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all that was needed for the re-creating and renewing of his own 
body, even then, the seminal elixir would exceed the demand. 
There are extremists, esthetically speaking, who deplore the 
commonness of the sex impulse; men and women particularly 
who emphasize the sordid physical side and are repulsed by it 
who declare that procreation is the only excuse for cohabitation. 
Such persons transform one of the greatest blessings of God into 
a curse or a calamity. These same people are on a par with a 
class of parents who are "too nice" to admit the normal birth of 
children and teach their offspring that babies come from heaven 
or the drug-store at the instigation of the stork. Such stories may 
be more esthetic than the truth, but why try to explain one of 
God's great laws through the medium of a lie ? 
It does not matter what one person or many have to say on 
the subject. Our assertion that continence is not a law of God 
is the truth and cannot be contradicted. We must accept the 
laws of God and nature. We are not living in an age of fools. 
It is beyond the ken of the thinking man and woman how any 
one can argue that anything in the realm of law and order, God's 
world, needs an apology. There is nothing to be ashamed of, 
nothing to hide. All law, and the action of law is noble and 
beautiful. The old teachings and feelings of shame must be aban- 
doned. All that God has created is wise, good and holy. 
The law of God, the law of sex life, of creation and re- 
creation cannot be nullified by man. They may be perverted, 
traduced or set aside, but time finally adjusts the question. Right 
always -prevails. The laws of God are mightier than the beliefs, 
customs or religious teachings of the beings He created. 
Institutions, laws and usages, public opinion and Dame 
Grundy have done their best to dig a pit and bury this subject 
of sex. Whether one practiced continence or not did not matter, 
so long as it was not discussed. Whether right or wrong let the 
advocates of continence teach it if they liked so long as it was not 
taught openly or openly contradicted. Silence and ignorance 
were virtues. But the subject will not down. Had it been possi- 66 
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ble this method would have annihilated it. We can no longer 
keep silent. We who know the truth must teach it. The diseases, 
mental and physical, arising from an adherence to continence 
formerly laid at other doors, must now be recognized as the legiti- 
mate children of a perverted law, and their cure entered upon. 
All through the ages this ugly monster, continence has shown 
its head. Wherever it has trailed its hideous body it has left in 
its wake the most degraded forms of perversion and degenera- 
tion. All the crimes in the category of evil follow. The natural 
use of a part or function produces natural results. The unnatural 
use of a part or function produces unnatural results. Health, 
saneness, mental and physical equilibrium, all these blessings 
are found by those living in harmony with sex laws. We can 
and do find the opposites of these blessings among the followers 
of continence. 
Why this senseless discrimination against certain parts of 
the body ? The food eaten by man is taken into his system, di- 
gested and passed on. A certain amount must be eliminated. 
This is anything but an esthetic process, but nothing is thought 
of it. It has always been an open subject, never a degraded one. 
The sex nature is very like the digestive and eliminative 
ones. Only because of secrecy is this part of the body the most 
ignoble and abused. The comparison of the different processes 
is not inapt. Health depends upon secretions and the elemina- 
tion of unused material. Do we stretch a point when we say that 
the physical law acts in exactly the same way whether it is a 
colon to be evacuated or a gland ? We think not. In either case, 
suppression or retention is deleterious. If for any reason the 
bowel does not perform its function we do not hesitate to ask a 
physician's advice or treatment. There are men and women, 
trained to teach and advise in sex matters. Why consult a doc- 
tor about one and ignore the other ? 
Is there much if any difference in the reason and the princi- 
ple of elimination as manifested by the various parts? Food is 
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rebuilding of the body. It is used to make flesh, nerves, blood 
and so on. Waste passes out of the system through different ave- 
nues of escape, not through one. The bowels, kidneys, lungs, 
skin and sex arrangement all assist nature. Is it sane or reason- 
able to disqualify any one of these ? 
If the bowels refuse to do their part, constipation takes 
place. There is a poisoning of the system called autointoxica- 
tion, or self-poisoning. Death will result unless the cause is 
removed and the intestines again perform their normal work. 
If a man consciously ignores this physical law is he not guilty 
of suicide? Gods law is cause and effect. He, the man, refuses 
to assist the bowel to movement; that is cause. Death is the 
logical effect. God is not concerned how we circumvent His 
laws, what methods we employ. The result is the same. When 
we are not in harmony with law, we reap disaster. A man is 
guilty of suicide whether he takes poison, shoots himself or re- 
fuses to aid a diseased bowel. Before the great Law-giver these 
various methods bring about the same result; all are equally ef- 
fectual in bringing about death. 
If the kidneys do not perform their function properly, trou- 
ble results. Bright's disease or some other makes it manifest 
that they are not functioning according to the law of kidneys. 
If remedies are not applied, death is certain. If the lungs are 
not performing their duty, they weaken gradually, tubercular in- 
dications appear and death is a question of time. The law is 
the same in every part of the eliminative system. All these or- 
gans receive a share of the nutriment from the food eaten. It is 
apportioned to them for the building and keeping in repair of 
their particular part. All that is not used in construction and 
re-construction is refuse and must be thrown out-or be de- 
stroyed by it. This is the law. 
The law of elimination applies equally to all the eliminative 
processes of the body. Out of the amount of nutriment furnished 
the body, the sex system selects its own portion. It cannot ap- 
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neys use up their share. In every department of construction and 
repair there is a waste portion. This must be taken care of in 
one way or another. If the unwholesome, unsanitary, contrary- 
to-law idea of continence is followed and the waste retained, it 
is thrown back into the general system as a positive poison and 
ultimately causes death in one way or another. 
The pathological effect of different infections produces dif- 
ferent diseases in the body; that is, the action of poisons secreted 
by different organs result in various diseases. The effect of a 
diseased intestine is entirely different from that of a diseased 
sex system. The infection due to excess of unused seminal fluid 
is far reaching and elusive. The poison thus generated not only 
effects bodily tissue, but in some diabolical way not easily 
demonstrated in type attacks the centers of mental activity. The 
reason-faculties and the moral nature succumb to this insidious 
poison. The imbecile and the pervert are extreme examples. 
But the world is full of victims tainted with mental and physical 
infection. Onanism, sodoism and the specialized houses in the 
red light districts of the large cities are proof of this. Can any 
one doubt the necessity of scientific and philosophical instruc- 
tion on this subject? 
The adherents of continence declare that love is the preven- 
tion and the cure of disease, whether of the sex nature or of any 
other part of the body. The divinity of love is a cure, but the 
man or woman living in a state of disobedience to God and His 
laws is not in a position to talk of or apply the principles of the 
higher phases of love. We enter a protest to such a man or 
woman using the word love. They do not know what it means. 
Love and sex are the dual parts of the emotional nature. There 
can be no true, lasting love without sex. And what is more: 
The strength of a man's love equals the strength of his sex power. 
This statement of fact applies only to the love of men and 
women, that love which is the basis of the happily married 
couple. The very craving for love and affection from one of the 
opposite sex is love based on the sex nature. HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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Is it possible for a young man to love a woman, who through 
bad habits or abuse has deprived himself of "manly strength?" 
We say no. Love, as experienced and expressed by incarnated 
beings cannot be divorced from the alchemy of sex. That young 
man may be mentally faithful to a woman, but that is not love. 
Go still farther. Is it possible for him to love father, mother, 
brothers and sisters? In the truest sense of the word again we 
say no. If he is not an all-round man he is not in possession of 
the prerogatives of man. Follow this question to the extreme. 
Is it possible for him to truly love God? The answer is the 
same, no. To truly love is to love wholly with the complete 
nature in wholeness. The man under discussion is not whole. 
Half of the emotional nature is disabled or ruined, and half a 
man cannot give a whole man's love to either God or woman. 
It is apparent that all the great men and women who have 
become immortal in the world of action and accomplishment 
were men and women possessing fully developed, normal sex 
natures. Proven celibates and eunuchs are not listed in the an- 
nals of greatness. If there was ever any misuse of the sex func- 
tion of the famous men and women it was over-use, never non- 
use. 
It is utterly impossible for a man to be healthy and virile 
and strong, capable of physical and mental activity along any 
line of the world's work, who does not attend to the organs of 
elimination in his own body. It is utterly impossible for a man 
to be healthy in body and mind, full of strength and vivacity, 
who does not live a natural sex life. The man who is love- 
starved, system-congested, mind-poisoned has not a chance of 
success or happiness. 
The so-called doctrine of continence may be likened to a 
pool of water surrounded by a wall of masonry. The fresh water 
is poured into the basin which, when filled, automatically shuts 
off the inflow. From that time on, only an amount of water 
equal to the amount soaking away or evaporating finds its way 
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answer. Stagnation. The life and the purity of the water de- 
pends upon an inflow of fresh water which is denied it. All 
through this liquid body poison generates and each particle seek- 
ing an affinity rises to the top, unites itself to other bits of virulent 
matter and forms a sheet over the water. In and through and 
underneath this foul blanket are born minute, evil creatures and 
we call it the poisoned pool. 
As every pool of water needs an inflow of fresh water to 
keep it sweet and wholesome, so does the sex nature or system of 
man need a constant inflow of the vital fluid. This preposes an 
outflow. If the outlet is denied, nature seizes other means of 
remaining active. Continence is an automatic shut-off, for only 
an infinitesimal amount of fresh material can find entrance, the 
parts being already surcharged and overflowing with stored-up 
semen. The result is stagnation. Poison generates in the congest- 
ed parts, unites itself to other poisons and finds its way through 
the tissues to different parts of the body. This poison is readily 
taken up by the nervous system. Its baneful effect is worse than 
death. It disturbs the equilibrium of the entire system of man. 
It undermines the moral nature; detracts power from the will; 
adds impetus to the desires. The natural, normal outlet being 
closed the action and the purpose of the sex nature turns its force 
in upon itself. Perversion and a thousand evils spring into be- 
ing under the foul blanket of continence. The mental being of 
man is as thoroly diseased and hopeless as the body of a man 
who finds himself afflicted with leprosy. 
A mental leper can no more think clean, wholesome, healthy 
thoughts than a poisoned pool can give forth a stream of pure 
water. Such a being contaminates society and all means that 
are used to bring about these unnatural results, these crimes 
through monstrous teachings should be suppressed. CONTINENCE 
Part Two 
The subject of the uses of sex is not a difficult one to under- 
stand. It is an individual one like that of dietetics. Men differ 
from each other and while different foods and combinations are 
required for the various bodies, still the general laws of nutri- 
tion apply to the whole race. The laws of sex also have a gen- 
eral application, but the adjustment of each must be in harmony 
with the law. 
Elimination of waste material from the physical organism 
must be thoroly effected, the amount of matter being in propor- 
tion to the amount of food taken into the system. 
Some men store up an immense amount of vital force. Even 
though a more than normal amount of this force is expended in 
business life, there is an amount left for elimination. The normal, 
natural method of elimination of surplus vital energy is through 
the marriage rite. In the case of the unmarried; if the food is 
taken in normal quantities, the thought-world kept free of sor- 
did, sensual thought, and physical and mental work followed 
daily, nature will step in and eliminate the surplus material, 
either during sleep or through the urine. 
In order to accomplish Higher Race Development, the laws 
of God and nature must be understood, not guessed at. No mat- 
ter what opinions have been held, if they are contrary to, or out 
of harmony with, law, they must be abandoned. Truth must be 
our motto, our slogan. Truth only, nothing else. Truth as an 
unfailing guide will lead us aright. Truth must be our watch- 
word, our inspiration. Our one aim, to teach the truth as it is 
revealed to us. 
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mal sexual exercise is not only necessary to health of mind and 
body, but also for the production of a healthy, normal, sym- 
metrically developed race in the future. 
It is not possible for a man to live a life of continence for 
any length of time, a year for instance, then perform the marri- 
age rite and produce a superior child. It is doubtful if he can 
become the father of even a normally healthy one. Mediocre in 
intelligence and talent it certainly will be. Why ? 
The answer can be given in the following illustration: If 
a spring of water is dammed up, the outlet shut off, the water 
becomes stationary, resulting in stagnation. Life is activity. If 
the water is not renewed it becomes poisonous, putrid. No one 
would think of drinking water in such a state. In order that 
it may become cleansed and fit for use, the spring must be open- 
ed, allowing fresh water to circulate through it. 
The creative springs of a man's being act in exactly the 
same way. If a man dams himself up; if through a wrong con- 
ception of the laws of sex life he refuses to use the seminal fluid, 
it remains in the pool-glands and becomes stagnant. The vital 
force, through being repressed and inactive, loses its highest 
qualities and becomes destructive. To create a healthy being, it is 
necessary to give the creative system a cleaning, so that, like the 
water, it may become fit for use. If, after a year of continence, 
a man attempts to call into creation a new being, the life forces 
are in a condition of the stagnant water of the pool. He may 
actually produce a being, but coming from an unclean source, it 
will be diseased both mentally and physically. 
And what of the feminine side of the question ? In a medi- 
cal practice extending over many years, in the treatment of thous- 
ands of women, I have never found a normal condition where the 
husband was addicted to continence. Without exception, the or- 
gans of the woman's generative system were diseased, in one way 
or another. Misplacement of the uterus, inflamed ovaries, or 
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damns the man, endangers the offspring both physically and 
mentally, but brings about untold ills to the wife. 
The man who persists in this unlawful practice will find a 
gradual lessening of his general ability. His mind becomes less 
keen; he is unable to analyze minutely; he loses the incentive 
to plan and act; he becomes mentally negative. Physically he 
soon drops below par. He finds himself nursing headaches, be- 
coming nervous and irritable, acquiring dyspepsia. With the 
suppressing of the sex activity comes a general inertia and the 
development of neurasthenic tendencies. 
The bad effects outlined are only the beginnings of the 
curses that follow in the wake of this destructive practice. Fol- 
lowing the weakness of the mind and the general illness of the 
body, comes the debilitating effect on the powers of reason and 
will; the disintegrating of the moral stamina. It is only a step 
beyond this to reach sex perversion. 
The sex exercise of man is a natural function. Contrary to 
the same kind of exercise in the animal, it is not for procreation, 
and that alone, but for the regeneration of the whole man, men- 
tal and physical. The great Creator had this in view when he 
created woman as a companion for man. 
It is not difficult to single out conclusive proof (that sexual 
exercise was not intended for one purpose only), from the mass 
of contradictory arguments and teachings. Contrast the in- 
clinations of the human with the animal. In the lower order, 
where instinct rules, not thought, the male seeks the female dur- 
ing the lunar season. At no other time does she indicate a sex 
desire. The male does not recognize her existence as a female 
before or after that time. 
If the same Being who created men and animals desired the 
same laws to govern all alike, why did He implant in the two 
orders entirely different instincts about the same function? Why 
are the animal and human instincts radically and fundamentally 
different? 
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during the lunar period. The male is attracted to her during 
that time only. It is entirely different with the woman, the oppo- 
site in every respect. Being unclean during the lunar season, 
the menstrual period, she is passive, the idea repulses her, unless 
she has joined that fast increasing number of perverts. If she 
does desire sexual exercise during the time of uncleanness, or it 
is forced upon her, and she conceives, the result is always a 
marked child. It will bear the stamp of the beast. 
Unlike the animal, the woman exhibits sex desires after, not 
during, the lunar season. If she conceives at this period, a 
strong child will be born. It may be stated in passing, that the 
greater the passion-love being one aspect of desire-the strong- 
er and more virile will be the offspring. 
The possibility of conception decreases with the passing of 
the days following the lunar period. After ten days there is 
little danger of pregnancy. It is not likely to occur until a day 
or so before the actual commencement of the next period. Should 
conception take place at this time, the pre-lunar season, the child 
will be deficient in vital force. The life-sex-energy stored up in 
the mother from the previous lunar period, has become depleted 
and she cannot bequeath a full vitality when she does not pos- 
sess it herself. 
There are fourteen days each month when a woman is not 
capable of reproducing her species; fourteen days in which she 
may, nevertheless, desire sexual exercise. If the laws of animals 
were given for the guidance of the human race, why was she 
given fourteen sacred "open days?" The moment a female ani- 
mal desires, she seeks satisfaction. If continence is a sound doc- 
trine, why should the female of our species be filled with unsatis- 
fied longings nearly one-half of the time ? 
Taking it for granted that the husband is her equal, can an 
advocate of continence maintain that the woman does not obtain 
health, strength and greater power to love, through the practice of 
the marriage rite? This assertion of ours, that she does obtain 
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abnormal, or a weakling. Can the continence devotee deny that, 
under harmonious conditions, both participants of the rite re- 
ceive spiritual and physical blessings, during these "open days?" 
At this point it must be apparent that God gave men a dif- 
ferent sex law from that of the animal. Men and women find 
health, strength, renewal of youth, all powers and blessings 
through following this law of use. Sexual exercise is a source of 
incentive in both thought and action. The greater the sex power 
the greater the power of achievement. Such exercise is the source 
of health, of happiness, of all the powers and benefits of life. 
When we speak in this broad, emphatic manner, we have in 
mind exercise, not license. Normal exercise and license are as 
far apart as the poles. One brings health, and all desirable 
things; the other brings disease, morbidness, perversion oftimes, 
and the destruction of all that is good, ending usually in an 
ignoble death. 
The sexual appetite should be controlled in the same man- 
ner as the other appetites. A wise man eats only enough to sup- 
ply the needs of the body. Too much food clogs and congests 
the system. Sexual indulgence in excess depletes the nerves, the 
very opposite of the effect desired. The exercise of sex must be 
followed only in so far as it is conducive to health and vitality. 
A normal satisfaction always results in peace and contentment. 
The question of temperament is of vast importance in deal- 
ing with sex issues. Higher Race Development cannot become a 
science until individual temperament, and the combinations, 
good and bad, of temperament, are understood. Ignorance of the 
requirement of different temperaments is productive of both sin 
and suffering. The mating of temperaments is quite as import- 
ant a subject as the mating of bodies. For ex: A man of vital 
temperament, full of virility and sex power, ought never to marry 
a woman of a cold, unimaginative, phlegmatic nature. Such a 
union will make life a hell to both of them, and any children re- 
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and most always afflicted with some pronounced bodily weak- 
ness. 
Temperament is usually indicative of the degree of sex 
power in man. Contrary to general opinion, the nervous tem- 
perament is not the most passionate one to possess. Individual 
peculiarities of temperament control sex inclinations. Careful 
selection of a fitting mate is of prime importance. Race develop- 
ment depends upon right selection. A normal child can be ex- 
pected only when happiness attends the marriage rite. As ab- 
normal children come from virile fathers and cold mothers, so 
also, do they appear when the mother desires the embrace of the 
father three times a week, according to the rules of Solomon, 
and receives it once a month. 
The teaching and the following of continence will never 
regulate the tendencies of the age, nor succeed in reforming them. 
Quite the opposite. By the practice of continence the very things 
we wish to regulate, or annihilate, are sure to become established. 
Continence is in itself a form of perversion. Only in the rarest 
cases can a man start the living of a continent life without soon 
showing signs of weakness, nervousness, and would he tell the 
truth, mental distortions,-the thoughts and images that lead to 
perversion. This is always the first stage. The second follows 
close on its heels; love of none, selfishness, degeneration. 
A normal, unsatisfied appetite leads to a perversion of that 
appetite, without a single exception. Suppression of any normal 
desire, power or force has never been a success and never will be. 
Nothing dies. When an attempt is made to suppress or destroy 
a normal tendency, we simply hold it in check for a limited time 
until a change has taken place in its activity and then it breaks 
forth in a new place, in some disguise. There is nothing higher 
on the physical plane than the normal. If it changes its matter- 
form, shape, or design, it becomes abnormal. Consequently, if a 
normal sex power is suppressed it becomes abnormal, the first 
step on the way to perversion. 
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all men were like them, the red light district in towns and cities 
would go out of business. This is undoubtedly true; still it 
infers an untruth. It is not the men of normal sex practices 
that keep up the vice, but the men and boys who have been told 
to suppress, or are in a condition of life where normal action is 
denied them. 
Thousands of men are starved in their love-expression be- 
cause of the ignorance of their wives. These women have been 
taught that sex is degrading, and that to acknowledge passion in 
themselves is a shameful thing. They discourage the sacred 
relationship, and the husbands, if normal, seek relief and under- 
standing elsewhere-usually among the undesirables of a city's 
population. Such women throttle their own love-nature and 
turn their home into a mere lodging house. All this because they 
deem themselves purer than the Creator who made them to love 
and express love, by giving them organs for that purpose, which 
they deny and abuse. 
There are men and women, (some of them may possibly 
read these pages) who pride themselves on following the doctrine 
of continence-who are, in fact, continent. But why? Because 
for one reason or another, they cannot be any other way. 
We know of people, arguing in favor of continence, who 
through abuse of the holy power, have become impotent. They 
have lost health, strength, and desire. Of these God said they had 
destroyed their souls. Such arguments and such men make one 
smile. 
There are narrow-minded, bigotted men and women, who, 
because of some bitter experience in life, have frozen every 
particle of heart and soul life out of them. They cannot love; 
all warmth has departed; they have lost all power of generation. 
To such, the life of continence is all that is left them. They are 
often called "vinegar-faced," and deserve the name. All who 
come in contact with them are likely to be temporarily tinged 
with sourness. 
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ing of the word, are those victims of religious excitement who 
haunt revival meetings. They are sexually diseased, and while 
in a state of hysteria, often unknown to themselves, experience 
the crisis. This leaves them relaxed and weak. These very peo- 
ple are loudest in their praise of continence, while they are, 
themselves, the victims of self-satisfaction brought on by religi- 
ous excitement, a condition a thousand times worse than the ex- 
ercises they deplore. 
Still another class may be included in this list. There are 
many men who consider woman of value only because she can 
minister to his sex gratification. They cannot be persuaded that 
women have desires and a right to experience the same sensa- 
tions. These brutes exercise sex for themselves only, and having 
completed the act, leave the wife in a state of fever. These 
women are to be pitied. They are the victims of an unnatural sex 
condition through no fault of their own. It is a known fact that 
many repetitions of the act of bringing on a state of feverish de- 
sire and then not satisfying that desire will in time induce abnor- 
mal conditions of the creative organs. They become diseased, 
refuse to act normally, and the woman thus treated, finds herself 
longing for continence, through the hate generated in her heart by 
her selfish, brutal husband. 
Women are not the only sufferers in this respect. There 
are countless men, warm and true in heart and nature, gifted 
with vital power and purpose, filled with love and honor for their 
wives, who make natural requests, only to be refused. Their 
sense of honor, and a loathing of promiscuity, prevent them from 
seeking satisfaction outside of their own home. This unsatisfied 
desire brings about an irritation of the urinary canal, the glands 
become swollen and inflamed, and the result is a condition that 
eats out the very heart of love and affection. That which was 
once the base of honest love and desire; that which was once a 
normal, God-given inclination, the foundation of a beautiful life, 
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evil. There are many men married to women who refuse the 
duties of motherhood. They will not have children, yet desire 
sexual exercise. They issue a decree that the man shall be with 
them up to a certain point and then withdraw. In this case both 
are robbed, but the man is innocent of any wrong-doing. Through 
disobedience to the great law enunciated by Moses, "Thou shalt 
not cast thy seed upon the ground," disease results to both of 
them. This man and wife grow to hate each other and their 
home life is hell. The woman deserves it, but the man does not. 
Sex exercise must be carried on in a perfect manner. There 
is a right and a wrong way. No man has a right to embrace a 
woman unless he desires to obey the sex laws of God and nature. 
The law of reciprocity is positive. When the embrace is under- 
taken the twain must not separate until both are fully satisfied. 
When this law is faithfully followed, there is no loss of vital 
power for either of them. He absorbs the magnetic force of her 
lochia; she absorbs the life principle, or vital force, from the 
semen. In this way life, health and happiness is conserved, and 
all is well. 
Once in a while, for one reason or another, a woman is 
found who has passed through life, never having known either the 
benefits or pleasures of the sexual embrace. This is usually the 
result of an unfortunate love-affair, and the bitterness and dis- 
appointment of it turns her against love, or any expression of it. 
These women are rabid in their denunciation of sex relation- 
ships. They condemn everything connected with it. This class 
of women are a proof of our contention that continence affects the 
mental as well as the physical condition of its adherents. Such 
women are unbalanced, not sane on all questions. 
To another class belong the woman whose husband, while 
receiving some pleasure and benefit from her, through weakness 
contributes nothing in return. The strength of his manhood has 
already been spent and he has none left for the demands of the 
home. The divine side of sex life is a sealed book to the wife 
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the highest sense of the word, is missing. She resents the brutal 
side, and if she is strong enough, forces the husband to discon- 
tinue his advances. 
There are also men who have become diseased early in life, 
later following the ways of perversion until nothing was left but 
the husk. These men have never known the embrace of a 
womanly woman who in her love gave all. Such men rant their 
belief in continence, to the mirth and contempt of all in the 
secret. 
We are not afraid to make this assertion: There never was 
a healthy, normal, well-born man or woman who wanted to live 
a life of continence. 
God said: "The glory of man is his strength." CONTINENCE 
Part Three 
In considering, and refuting, the arguments of continence 
we must not ignore, or overlook, the opposite side of the question 
as put forth by a class of men whose opinions are just as danger- 
ous to the health of society. We refer to the debauchee and the 
libertine. One extreme is as deleterious, individually and col- 
Ictively, as the other. 
Those named above consider life worth living only when 
allowed to wallow in the mire of excesses. Variety and promis- 
cuity appeal to them, is necessary to their happiness. Like the 
gourmand who lives only to eat, these brute-beings live only in 
the enjoyment of a sensual life. They are all slaves to appetite. 
The pendulum swings both ways, the extremes of which are ab- 
normal. On the one hand the libertine; on the other, the con- 
tinent man. 
The class who preach and practice continence starve the 
system by refusing to grant it an exchange of vital magnetism. A 
gradual poisoning of the life stream takes place through stagna- 
tion. The other class preach and practice various kinds of ex- 
cesses, cramming the system with streams of magnetism gathered 
from many sources. These streams act as counter currents to each 
other, the different rates of vibration tearing and disintegrating 
the man involved in the practice. Disease and death is inevit- 
able. The man who desires to live a sane, safe life, follows the 
middle path. 
The question is asked: "How often should sexual exercise 
be practiced?" The answer requires delicacy and thought, for 
it depends upon the state of the mind and body of the individual. 
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There are well-defined indications of the right use of the 
sex law which, if observed and followed, will give a correct ans- 
wer to every questioner. So long as the exercise is indulged in 
by two people who love each other, and the feeling of health, 
strength and well being fills the days, it is a clear indication that 
there has not been an over indulgence. When the man feels 
equal to a day's work and does it easily and cheerfully; when 
the woman finds it a joy to perform her duties, and that labor 
does not take upon itself the nature of drudgery, then normal 
conditions prevail. Under such, the act is an incentive. 
The man and woman whose present, and future, welfare 
means more to them than the pleasures of indulgence, will regu- 
late their conduct in this matter. To overdo brings pain and 
restlessness. The slightest hint of weakness or lassitude should 
be taken as a warning. It is an indication of over indulgence 
and the number of times must be reduced. When good results 
follow a stated regime, one is justified in thinking that every- 
thing is as it should be. In general, young married people should 
set a standard and stick to it. Three times a week is usually a 
safe and sane rule to follow. 
It has been asked many times whether continence is as 
harmful to a woman as it is to a man. The answer is neither 
difficult nor intricate. 
The sexual instinct is not widely different in the male and 
female. The effects of this instinct and its gratification vary. 
As a rule, the desire for sex exercise in a woman springs from a 
different emotion than that of the man. In him it rises from a 
desire for gratification, for gratification's sake. This is not 
generally true of the woman. Her act is based more on the de- 
sire to give pleasure to the loved one. A woman's love nature is 
finer and purer and involves higher phases of emotion that that 
of the man. 
The difference between the sexes is based largely on the 
physical. In the male, glands form a receptacle of a highly 
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but also acts as an excitant toward sex exercise. It is this fluid 
which becomes rancid and poisonous if not used continually in 
the regeneration of mind and body, and in the sexual embrace. 
The body of the woman does not secrete a vital fluid of this na- 
ture and consistency. It is true that the ovarian tubes secrete 
a lochia, which may become poisonous if allowed to remain un- 
disturbed in the body. But in her case, the lochia does not act 
as an excitant. It is merely an indication of sexual awakening, 
and a lubricant. 
These physical differences make it evident that desire in 
women is not based on the storing of the fluid, which acts as an 
excitant. In her case, nervous excitement calls into action the 
lochia caused by the nearness of the male and his embraces. For 
this reason, that of not having organs stored with fluid, contin- 
ence is not as harmful to the woman as it is to the man. Never- 
theless, a woman practicing continence does not escape all harm. 
The fact that the nervous system is aroused and that the lochia 
flows is an evidence of a rising temperature in these parts. Harm 
results to the entire nervous system unless this fever is reduced 
through the natural process of sex exercise. 
The harmful effects of continence appear much more quick- 
ly in man. His nature is aroused easily, and because of the fluid, 
remains aroused. This irritates the urinary canal and ultimate- 
ly, that terifying disease, known as prostatic trouble, develops. 
Another reason may be added why continence is more harm- 
ful to the male than to the female. In her, nature has seen fit to 
establish a periodic outlet for all the fluids accumulating in her 
generative system. The flow not only cleanses the system, but 
relieves both temperature and pressure. The male has no invol- 
untary relief provided by nature. He must depend upon absorp- 
tion of the fluid by the body, and sexual embrace. 
The question of the intensity of desire; whether the male or 
the female possesses the greater amount cannot be answered 
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far as individuals are concerned, the balance shifts according to 
the temperaments of the persons under consideration. 
In a medical practice of many years, we have had ample 
opportunity to investigate this question of intensity. From the 
confession of many women, we conclude that the desire of the 
female is just as intense as that of the male. Many women 
patients have declared without hesitation, that the inflammation 
of ovaries, congestion of the uterus and the flow of the fluor albus 
have been caused by nothing more or less than unsatisfied desire. 
This is so often so, that we have made it a necessary part of the 
diagnosis to ask questions pertaining to the habits of sex life. 
In seventy-five per cent of the cases treated, the difficulty can be 
traced to forced, or chosen, or a partial, continence. These very 
women are usually the most intense. Such cases can be relieved 
by local treatments and soothing applications. If the patients 
are married they can be cured-if we can secure an interview 
with the husbands. Seventy-five per cent of the troubles of 
women, physical, mental and domestic, can be laid at the door 
of sex. 
The diseases of the remaining twenty-five per cent coming 
under our treatment were brought about by a variety of causes, 
all of which might accentuate the sex intensity of the patient. 
Overwork, and the consequent nervousness which reacts on the 
sex system; too rich foods, flooding the system with a superfluity 
of material, some of which seeks outlet through the sex organs; 
and in the case of some young girls, dancing and other exercises 
with young men, all of which, though they were unconscious of 
passion, set in motion higher rates of emotion, causing disturb- 
ances in the generative system. 
It can be stated without successful contradiction, that while 
sex intensity may be equal in both sexes, mere passion is much 
more prominent in men than in women. Men seek the embrace 
as a matter of pleasure and relief, while women, as we have men- 
tioned before, become interested sexually more through their de- 
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A proof of this is easily found. If a man becomes aroused, 
he will seek relief even if it takes him to the arms of a woman he 
would not recognize at any other time. A woman will not do 
this. If she cannot be interested emotionally first, she remains 
cold to all advances. This proves that affection leads women 
while passion pulls the man. Of course there are exceptions to 
every rule, but we are speaking of the vast majority of the so- 
called good men and women. This analysis does not apply to 
the libertine who glories in his underworld amours, nor to the 
woman of Scarlet Lane who sells herself for money. 
In discussing the subject of continence, we wish to place 
every phase of the matter before the student that there may be 
no misunderstanding. It is taken for granted by all thinking 
people that the human race has not yet reached the point of per- 
fection in the understanding of the Laws of God. The sex law 
is no exception. Our statements may appear radical, dictatorial, 
but we do not make them final or absolute. The student must 
compare statements with experience and observation and "hold 
fast to that which is good." 
When the assertion is made that abstinence is harmful; 
that it is contrary to both natural and divine law, there are cer- 
tain exceptions to so sweeping a statement that must be taken 
into consideration. Exceptions but point out the truth and value 
of a law. 
For ex: Take a normal, loving, developed woman, one who 
may be aroused to passion by the love embrace. Suppose she 
chooses a husband who proves to be more brute than man. 
Knowing nothing, and caring less, for the fineness and sweet- 
ness of the wife's nature, he crushes her love and affection by 
the coarseness and brutality of his sex demonstration. Sex, to 
him, spells gratification and that only. When he desires the 
exercise, he acts the brute from beginning to end. To the woman 
that embrace is a horrible nightmare and filled with loathing, 
she remains cold and clammy. If she conceives and bears a 
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will be cold, utterly devoid of sex proclivities. Such a child, 
when grown, will be able to live a continent life, because the 
organs will not secrete the normal amount of vital force and 
fluid. To such an one continence is really a normal condition. 
Any one damned with that kind of a constitution cannot help 
being indifferent to the calls of sex; they are incapable of re- 
sponding to emotions that are normal to the race. 
Without doubt, many of the authoritative teachers of the 
continent life spring from this class. Their influence is all the 
more pernicious because they are true to themselves when they 
teach continence. They speak from experience and believe what 
they say. It is but natural that they should think well of them- 
selves, and their lack of desire and sex-expression as a right, 
normal condition, when, as an actual fact, they are monstrosities, 
abnormal. 
A patient, an unmarried woman thirty years old, with tears 
in her eyes, asked us to tell her the reason of her singular 
thoughts on sex; to explain to her why she was different from 
other girls. She confessed that she could not understand herself; 
that never once had she desired the sexual embrace; that she 
could not love any man; that she did not even know what love 
and affection meant. When she heard these things discussed she 
was bewildered; that all things belonging to the tender passion 
were totally without meaning to her. 
The solution to the enigma was found in the mother. She 
had never known what it was to be aroused through the sex em- 
brace ; had never known satisfaction. All her children were born 
under these conditions. They were all cold in nature, sexually 
asleep, or dead, and what follows? They lacked ambition; they 
were without the incentive to accomplish anything in life. 
The case mentioned above of the young woman could be 
traced back another generation, or more. The mother being cold 
and unresponsive, it may be presupposed that in turn her mother 
was abnormal, or mismated, and so on. 
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sex laws is the only way this can be brought about. Race de- 
velopment cannot reach a high stage until all individuals are an 
expression of, and express, God's laws. When every man and 
woman is taught the plain truth of living, the reclaiming of the 
human race will have begun. What can be more sorrowful in 
the sight of an All-wise Father than to see his children stumbling 
along in the darkness of ignorance? If human beings, through 
lack of fundamental knowledge, do not know human love in all 
its many-sidedness, how are they ever to come into an under- 
standing of the love of the Giver of all these gifts ? 
It has been stated that men and women wholly absorbed, 
mentally, in some vast undertaking, as inventors, scientists, 
astronomers, and so on, can practice continence without harm. 
In a way this is true. Such a statement might apply to the few, 
really great, mental giants of the time. These people develop 
along one line, use only one power of mind, following their par- 
ticular idea waking and sleeping. All the other powers of being 
are drawn to that point and used in the furtherance of the one 
object in life. To such persons, continence is possible without 
harmful after effects. They are in possession, either consciously 
or unconsciously, of one of nature's great secrets: Regeneration 
and transmutation. The vital force generated in the system is 
marshalled to the brain and absorbed through mental activity. 
But there are not a dozen men in a generation able to do this. 
Many of the ablest physicians of the past and present de- 
clare that men of this type border on insanity; that genius is in- 
sanity. The mind that is concentrated, day in and day out, on 
one thing, is unbalanced, one-sided, abnormal. Be that as it 
may, the fact remains that men who are great enough to use the 
law of regeneration to the extent that wizards of invention and 
science, once in a while, do, these men are powerful enough to set 
aside the functioning of sex for years without harm. But, in the 
cases mentioned, it will be found that the power of sex to exer- 
cise decreases and if continence continues, it is finally destroyed. 
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After all, are we not justified in saying that no one, great 
or small, can practice continence without injury to themselves 
and others ? Even in the case of genius, if the foundation of the 
love nature is destroyed, is he not that much the poorer? Has 
he not done humanity a wrong if he has placed himself where it 
is impossible for him to love, and feel, with the rest of the race? 
Are we not safe in venturing the remark that the genius could 
still have given the world the use of his mighty intellect, and yet 
have kept the roots of his love nature flourishing ? The love em- 
brace is not needed often by such a man to prevent the death of 
desire. There are many temperaments that store the vital fluid 
slowly. Nature does not demand the same activity in all men. 
The problems of domesticity and "the vice of nations" can- 
not be overlooked. When a wife believes in, and practices, con- 
tinence, what is the husband to do? Because the woman chooses 
the path of death, is that a sufficient reason for him to commit 
slow suicide? Many husbands, men of honor and decency, are 
refused "the natural right," because of coldness, religious scrup- 
les, or continence. Some of these men have denied themselves 
until nature could stand it no longer. Which is worse, disease, 
insanity, perversion, or the seeking of a mistress? The latter is 
the normal, natural way out of the dilemma, and the mistress 
receives the love and passion forfeited by the wife. 
Cases! Their name is legion. Who is to blame? Who 
shall judge such men guilty of adultery? And what is adultery? 
Why did God give men love, passion, desire, all the possibilities 
of growth and happiness and then shut the door to all fulfill- 
ment? He didn't. He did not bestow upon men all the bless- 
ings of temperament and then say: "Thou shalt not." If the 
embrace of the woman who is his wife is denied him; if his 
health, saneness, ability, happiness depends upon what the wife 
refuses, who shall say that morality demands that the husband 
make such a renunciation? If he can find another woman will- 
ing to be his helpmate, who shall say him nay ? 
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on free-love, a condition we are opposed to with all the force of 
our being. Free-love, promiscuity, has nothing to do with God 
and the right use of sex laws, absolutely nothing. But all sides 
of the question-use, non-use, abuse-all must be looked square- 
ly in the face and solved. 
We are not dealing with the man who is not satisfied with 
the wife who gives her husband the benefits of her love; those 
men who seek other women and excesses. We have in mind 
only the man of honor, not the libertine; the man who believes 
that sex exercise is necessary to preserve health and well-being, 
not the debauchee whose creed is license. 
What is to be done ? There is a remedy for every evil and a 
solution of this difficulty should be effected now. Not only for 
the suffering, unhappy men and women, but for the children 
being born of such unions without a chance to develop normally; 
for all of these a way out should speedily be found. 
Every state should have a law providing for, and covering, 
these cases. When the evidence that the husband, or wife, fails 
in conjugal duty; when it is proven that either one of them re- 
fuses to fulfill the marriage contract as generally understood, di- 
vorce should be granted. An unconditional decree should be 
given the one who has been refused the rights of sexual embrace 
for a period of six months. An appeal to legal law ought to 
adjust and settle the violation of sex laws. 
To recapitulate: The right use of sex is important, not 
only to the man and woman, but to the world at large. If a man 
lives a life of continence for any length of time, the pool of life 
becomes stagnant and poisonous, effecting his life and health. 
Children born under such conditions will be abnormal in one or 
more respects and therefore a curse to society, and an obstruction 
to progress. These children, when grown, will pass on the un- 
desirable traits, perpetuating the evil. 
In the face of the catagory who can say that continence is 
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subscribing to, and living, it, according to the temperament of 
the person concerned. Even in the case of genius there is in- 
jury and always will be. Non-use of sex-power, like the non-use 
of every other power, destroys the possibility of use and is there- 
fore a direct violation of the laws of God and nature. Contin- 
ence, whether voluntary or enforced, is a crime against God and 
man. CONTINENCE 
Part Four 
The injuries resulting from continency have already been 
pointed out: A gradual drying up of the vital force, and an 
inertness and deadening of the organs whose duty it is to secrete 
the fluid in which is contained the seed, the germ of physical life. 
The fact aims straight at the very foundation of life. We 
are not advancing these arguments as a philosophical disserta- 
tion on the regeneration of life, altho it would be unfair to leave 
this side of the question untouched, for while generation is the 
beginning of all life, regeneration or immortalization is the end 
of it, "that for which the first was made." The seed, and the 
means of generation, is also the medium of regeneration. It was 
for this reason that Moses taught the children of Israel that if 
the seed were cast upon the ground it would become a serpent, 
bringing death to whoever committed the crime. Under the law 
of Moses, it was considered so great a crime, that those guilty of 
it were judged to be lost; it was looked upon as a destroying of 
the soul. 
There is little, or no difference, in the effect upon man, in 
both body and soul, whether the seed is cast upon the ground 
(brought about by unfinished sexual embrace, or the practice of 
the solitary vices) or allowed to dry up in the generative organs. 
It is a destruction of the living seed in either case and the penalty 
is exactly the same in all three cases. 
One may ask, when sex power is used for other purposes 
than that of generation, is the seed not lost. No. Not in the 
normal relationship between man and woman. In the case 
where offspring does not result, the sexual powers are used in the 
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through the vital force contained in the seed and the vehicle 
which carries it, gives her strength, health and vitality. She, 
through the lochia, bequeaths the same to him. This exchange is 
absolutely necessary to the man and woman desiring health and 
well-being. 
Many wives refuse to allow their husbands to finish the 
marriage rite because of fear of pregnancy. These women usual- 
ly become haggard and old before their time; nervous wrecks 
after a few years of marriage. This interruption of the rite 
causes many men to seek satisfaction in excesses, either debauch- 
ery or drinking. Neither the husband nor the wife can profit- 
rather it ought to be said they lose when they allow themselves 
to be aroused and then refrain from gratifying the extreme of 
desire. 
It has been declared by those who know no better, that 
continence is the law of life-that if the sexual act is used for 
another purpose than generation, it causes an infinite number 
of life-giving cells to die, or be wasted. This is absurd. Even 
when creating a new body, only one spermatozoon is needed, out 
of over a million contained in a single ejection of semen, to 
fecundate an ovarian egg. The rest of the spermatozoa freed at 
the same time, must, of necessity, be discarded. 
What is the effect of continence on the woman ? If the mar- 
riage rite is practiced as God intended it to be, there is released 
from the generative organ of the male a highly vitalized fluid. 
The ejection of this fluid not only restores his own equilibrium, 
but gives life, health and happiness to the woman. At the same 
time there is released from the organs of the woman a fluid, 
called lochia, the nature and purpose of which is double. It is 
secreted by the vagina and lubricates the walls so that the en- 
trance to the holy temple may be painless and that the rite may 
be prolonged; it also acts as a carrier, or medium, of the mag- 
netic fluid released at the climax of the woman. 
If the woman is deprived of the functioning of the organs of 
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creates an unnatural condition in the walls of the vagina. A 
local illness results in an undesirable rancid discharge, the fluor 
albus, generally called "whites." The springs of life become 
poisoned, and then gradually dry up. A soured disposition, 
wrinkled face, and often a wrecked life may be charged to con- 
tinence. 
But though a woman has been continent it does not unfit her 
entirely for the marriage rite as it does the man. If, after a 
period of continence, she returns to the natural mode of living, 
it may be that she will not be able to again experience the climax 
no matter if she is mated to the most virile man on earth. 
We have outlined the more extreme results of the continent 
life. There are many lesser evils which ought to be a sufficient 
warning to reasonable, rationable human beings. The first indi- 
cation of trouble is nervousness in any one of its various forms. 
This state is apparently without cause. In rapid succession fol- 
lows irritability, the sort that makes the person a most undesir- 
able companion; gloominess, a tendency to look on the dark side; 
lack of appetite and a starved appearance; lack of concentration; 
lack of decision and stick-to-itive-ness; desire for constant 
change; nervous headaches due to a deranged nervous system, 
and the inability to digest the food; constipation and auto-in- 
toxication. The end of all this is neurasthenia, the next door to 
insanity. All of these illnesses, even the neurasthenia, may be 
cured. 
The debauchee's life brings about the same general results- 
with more added. The using of the life forces will deplete the 
man faster than he can accumulate, for the mixing of different 
rates of vibration; different currents of magnetism coming from 
many different woman, will destroy the strongest man living. He 
becomes de-magnetized and the principle of the life force is de- 
stroyed. 
Continence is a dragon with an hundred heads; each one 
carries death. 
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opposite of the drying up of the vital force. There may be an 
unnatural accumulation; this results in a lesion of the generative 
organs and the unhappy man becomes subject to nocturnal emis- 
sions. This becomes spermatorrhea and leads to loss of manhood 
and the consequent ruin of the entire nervous system. No need 
to write of the wrecks brought about through this process of de- 
generation, for nearly every one knows personally of such a case 
and its deplorable effects. 
One of the most terrible of evils following continence is 
masturbation, one of the most destructive habits known to the 
human race today. The possibility of the continent man or 
woman becoming perverted is greater than one dreams. The 
temptation is so insidious that it has been succumbed to before 
the person is aware of danger. 
All these evils trail in the wake of the destructive practice 
of continence. We cannot find an argument in favor of it. Of 
course there are times in the lives of most men when it is right 
and expedient to abstain from the sexual embrace; when the wife 
is ill or absent from home. But this is merely abstinence, not 
continence, for the mind does not dwell on enforced denial, but 
looks forward cheerfully to the resumption of the natural love tie. 
What about the effect of continence on the happiness of the 
home. Those couples stand the strain and stress of married life 
best who practice the marriage rite normally and naturally. 
The word normal means this: The couple are agreed, not 
only in regard to time, but in desire. In some cases this may be 
but once a week, or once in two weeks. In the majority of cases 
it means two or three times a week regularly except during the 
period of the wife's unholiness. 
A husband should indicate his desires by added caresses and 
affection. Only when he has aroused in her like desires should 
the rite take place. No man should touch a woman until she has 
shown a preference. Under these conditions health, peace and 
happiness follows the sexual embrace. But if a man ignores a HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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woman's feelings in the matter and forces himself upon her, then 
it is a crime to cohabit; it is married prostitution and license. 
The confession of every human being-could it be gotten- 
would be this: In every case, without one exception, where the 
man and woman are agreed in time and desire they have felt 
more in love and harmony with each other after the perform- 
ance of the rite, than before. 
But there are countless men and women who can tell of the 
woes of being mismated. The husband, because of sexual weak- 
ness, leaves the wife unsatisfied; or the wife, through fear of 
pregnancy, refuses sexual exercise, or half-heartedly submits to 
it; and so on. In many of these cases unhappiness, sickness, dis- 
trust, a gradual cooling of the affections occur; the husband seeks 
a mistress; the wife a lover; or divorce. 
Teachers of continence may assert that the diseases and ef- 
fects here attributed to continence are as easily applied to those 
indulging in the marriage rite; that the proofs offered are not 
conclusive; that wrong food and overwork will produce similar 
results. This must be admitted. 
But in other respects the proof may be declared absolute. 
For ex: The long sex life of the man who practices the marriage 
rite in a normal manner; the continent man cannot claim long- 
evity of sex. Of course, if he is consistent, he does not want 
longevity. But the argument favors the use of sex, for the man 
is considered youthful, or in his prime, only as long as he is 
master of the sex organs. If he is not in control of them he is 
considered down and out in every sense. 
One point must be thoroly understood. Neither man or 
woman has any right to practice the marriage rite without love as 
an impetus. If the act is performed under any other desire, or 
thought, it is a violation. A marriage ceremony may legalize an 
act, but God's laws are higher. 
Suppose the husband and wife do not love each other. In 
that case if he demands the conjugal "right" and she consents, 
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not, release the magnetic fluid and the man cannot free the vital 
force. The crisis takes place; there is a kind of physical satis- 
faction, but neither one receives the psychic, or spiritualized re- 
sult of cohabitation, the one thing necessary to peace, health and 
love to both of them. Writers and teachers along this line have 
emphasized the act in itself, or the elimination of the act alto- 
gether, missing the point just made. This is the underlying base 
insisted upon by Higher Race Development. Until this is un- 
derstood and practiced, misery and sickness will follow the mar- 
riage rite. 
Comment has been made upon the love starvation of the 
race. This is not so. Love is, and always has been. It is as 
natural a condition of human beings as breath or food. The 
advocates of continence would have men believe that they may 
love without passion. Impossible. The moment a man dearly, 
and truly, loves a woman, one of the expressions of that love is 
bound to be in sex. 
God created man in his image; that is, He gave man power 
and wisdom and love, the attributes of Himself. The fact that 
man manifests in the material while God manifests in the spirit- 
ual is not a contradiction. Men are co-workers with God, and 
the creative, generative organs and the desire to use them back 
up this statement. 
If it was ordained that men and women should live sep- 
arate as the sex weaklings would have us believe, God would 
never have planted so generously in man that desire for sex ex- 
pression. Would He have given man the urge for weekly sex- 
companionship with the beloved, if He had meant the act to take 
place only once a year, or once in two, for the purpose of gen- 
eration ? No. HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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If it is true that man can love without passion, then the op- 
posite is also true; men can, and should, perform the creative 
act without love. The thought is revolting, and the consequen- 
ces of it more so. It is beastly and damnable. 
Love is the basis of passion; and in its right meaning, pas- 
sion is the basis of love. The power of man to love, or hate, or 
achieve is in direct relation to the virility of his sex power. The 
weakly sexed cannot love. 
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HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT SEX, ITS SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE 
For more than seventy years a certain Society in America 
has been teaching its members that there is a Spiritual side to 
sex. This Society has taught, and still teaches its members, that 
God created man and woman so there might be procreation of a 
new race. He also gave them this Creative power thereby en- 
abling them to use the Laws of Generation for Re-generation, 
thus the means employed for creation might be used in the Re- 
creation or Regeneration of their beings. 
The doctrine of reaching Immortality through the right use 
of sex has been universally denied. It has been, and is still 
taught, that sex has no use outside of procreation, or if unwisely 
used, results in damnation or destruction of body and soul, thus 
denying the laws of Logic which teach us that the pendulum of 
the clock swinging one way must likewise swing the other, 
thereby maintaining equilibrium. 
It is logical to maintain that if sex can be abused to an 
extent resulting in damnation, it may also be used in the re- 
demption of a Soul on the way to perdition. Admitting this, 
we claim that as all men know sex is used for procreation, they 
must, if they give the subject serious consideration, concede that 
it can likewise be used for the Re-creation or Regeneration of 
that which it has created. Creation is that act of men which 
brings into existence a new being, while Re-creation or Regenera- 
tion is the method whereby the created being becomes Immortal. 
To many of us it seems unbelievable the established 
churches should claim the acceptation of Biblical teachings in 
their literal sense and give God credit for all Wisdom, while 
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all this contrary to the fact that Moses, the great Law-giver, 
based the salvation of the Israelites upon the practice of uplift- 
ing the creative energy and purity of sex practices. 
When the Israelites were on their way to the Promised Land 
under the God appointed leadership of Moses, they, because of 
their ignorance of the Divine Law governing creative energy, 
and their desire for self gratification, became frightful perverts, 
making it necessary for Moses, in order to prevent the total de- 
struction of the race, to forcibly point out to them, by symbolism 
in the form of the uplifted serpent, that both Life and Immor- 
tality were based on the right use of sex. 
He was impelled to impress upon their minds the great law, 
teaching them if they continued the misuse and perversion of 
the Creative forces and the continual "Casting of the seed upon 
the ground," as he called the "act unfinished," would result not 
only in the extinction of the Jewish race, but it would likewise 
mean destruction to their own Soul, because the "Soul that sin- 
neth it shall die," a doctrine based upon the unnatural and 
abnormal sex practices. 
In the Ancient Egyptian Mystic Religion, before the church 
became debased, the Right use of sex, i. e., used only for pro- 
creation of a new being or Regeneration of the created being, was 
one of the very fundamental doctrines of Religion. It was on 
this ancient religious doctrine that Moses based his moral code 
whereby to save his beloved people, and it has always been a 
mystery to many of us how it should be possible for enlightened 
nations Claiming Christianity, refusing to admit the moral code 
as formulated by Moses (under direct tuition of God) as it is 
the very foundation upon which religion is based. 
Up to the present,, time it has been practically impossible to 
interest mankind in this great problem which we maintain is the 
base of degradation and much illness on the one hand, or salva- 
tion of body and soul on the other. Equally as difficult to prove 
to men that according to the Holy Scripture sin can be commit- 
ted only when children have reached the age of responsibility, HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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at the time when the change from boyhood to manhood, or girl- 
hood to womanhood, has taken place, therefore, as an actual fact, 
the original sin is based upon the awakening of, and the mis- 
using of the creative functions, and all other sins follow there- 
after. Even in the Garden of Eden, sin was not committed until 
after the disobedience by our first parents of the creative laws as 
laid down by God. 
Moreover, if we have faith in the Biblical account, we must 
believe there were children prior to the Special act which God 
condemned, indicating clearly, that creation of new beings may 
take place and no sin attached to it, and that it is only when the 
act of creation is indulged in for the pleasure or purely for per- 
sonal satisfaction, sin actually is committed. 
From the foregoing statement the reader might conclude 
there could be no possibility of sin provided the Marriage Rite 
were completed, and in case the woman participating is virile, 
child resulted from the union. This would not be a com- 
plete statement of the fact, sin being defined as an "act which 
may bring harm to the self, or sorrow and suffering to other than 
the self." As a matter of fact, a drunkard or a degenerate might 
take part as readily in the union as a normal person, and if in 
such case it were completed and normal in itself, the child re- 
sulting might prove to be a weakling or an idiot, because of this, 
the act would have been a sin and contrary to the law of God 
because unnecessary sorrow and suffering would be the lot of 
the new creation. 
It is likewise possible that a libertine might cover the deni- 
zen of the brothel and a new being result from such union. The 
Rite might be normal and natural, but the actors themselves 
being evil in their very nature, the new creation resulting would 
not be such as God could smile upon and as a consequence, a 
creature of sin. 
Let those who consider these statements without foundation, 
and not based on Divine teachings, give a careful study to the 
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formulated by Moses and their opinion will change and become 
more harmonious with the great Laws of God and Nature re- 
garding Creation and Re-creation. 
The late war, fearful in many respects, has been a wonder- 
ful awakener. We now find physicians and leaders who scorned 
the idea of sex having any Spiritual Significance, frankly ad- 
mitting our claim. Men and women, boys and girls, because of 
the new awakening of the potentalities in sex, should be care- 
fully taught the right use of the sex function and also its spirit- 
ual significance. If this is fully accomplished it is possible more 
souls will be saved by it within the next fifty years than the total 
casualties during the entire war, and it may be, through the 
cruelty and hatred of men and their desire to destroy, God has 
made use to awaken other men and thereby give the incentive 
to a new and more enlightened race. 
We have previously implied the possibility of the Israelites 
committing the sins through ignorance. We still maintain this 
is true for the reason that we know the Israelites believed in and 
were seeking a Promised Land. Having the faith such a Prom- 
ised Land existed, and willing to give up their homes so as to 
be free to seek for it, we cannot conclude they would intention- 
ally commit sins which would destroy both body and soul while 
searching for it. Nevertheless, it is true the Israelites were not 
only bringing upon themselves the most loathsome diseases, but 
also were actually destroying body and soul, until the condition 
became so intolerable that Moses appealed direct to God for help 
with which to redeem his beloved race. 
Ignorance of the Laws of Sex and all that concerns the 
Creative functions is scarcely less today than in the time of 
Moses, and we seriously question whether the suffering, misery 
and ignoble deaths are not greater in proportion than they were 
in Ancient times. 
In proof of this we offer extracts from a letter recently re- 
ceived from one who applied to the Bureau for help, it clearly 
illustrates the ignorance in which countless mothers live. HIGHER RACE DEVELOPMENT 
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"In reading your article on the sex relation (referring to an 
article in 'Reconstruction'), one might get the idea that every sex 
impulse between husband and wife should be indulged, or else 
there will be sex perversion-and I don't know exactly what you 
mean by sex perversion, so meagre is the knowledge of the aver- 
age married couple in the matter of sex that they have to learn 
only through their experience, and too often through their mis- 
takes." 
Such is part of the letter from a married woman who is the 
mother of children, but is forced to frankly admit she knows 
nothing of sex, does not know any source from which to gain 
knowledge, except from bitter experience. 
This woman, wife and mother, we know to be a member of 
a church yet implies she can gain no information regarding one 
of the most sacred and important laws of her being, laws which 
obeyed when rightly understood, bring health, happiness and 
finally, Salvation of Soul. 
The understanding she has of the article in question is not 
a correct one. The Bureau does not maintain or teach that the 
Marriage Rite should be freely indulged, but it does teach that 
there should be a complete and harmonious understanding be- 
tween husband and wife regarding this Sacred relation. It holds 
that the continent life is destructive to the happiness of the home 
because where this doctrine is followed consistently husband and 
wife grow apart and the family ties become disrupted. 
It is an absolute law that the husband has not right to de- 
mand compliance with his request, and must accept only that 
which is freely granted. To demand and take that which has 
not been won and freely given in love means disease to her, 
weakness and death to him. Undoubtedly this practice of de- 
mand and take is one of the worst forms of prostitution, more 
horrible in its results upon man than if he frequented the brothel, 
there his desires would at least be complied with more or less 
cheerfully. 
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husband of a warm loving nature, possessing the vital force 
which makes him what is termed, a real man, and if his normal 
desires are continually refused, there can be but one result in the 
end; either he will prove unfaithful to his vows of marriage or 
in time perversion will result. 
This is only one reason why the continent life in the mar- 
ried state is not the true life. However, it is freely admitted 
there may be reasons for a continent life. For instance, where 
one or both parties are feeble, ill, under great nervous tension, 
or under some severe sorrow. Where one or both of the parties 
concerned is of a cold nature or unloving disposition, divorce 
rather than continence, is the solution of the problem, though in 
some of these cases divorce may be undesirable because of chil- 
dren in the family. 
In the article in question, we had reference only to those 
living in the married state, not to the unmarried. We freely 
admit the only normal life for the single is the continent life. 
When many such letters are received and in each the cry 
for knowledge, must we not come to the conclusion that the de- 
mand for correct teachings of Sex Hygiene, Eugenics, Race De- 
velopment etc. is acute? We are appalled when we once awaken 
to the necessity for such instructions and consider that which 
passes for knowledge on the why of sex. 
If it is our desire to enlighten mankind and save our nation 
from the sex perversions which have been the means of destroy- 
ing all of the great civilizations of the past, including Egypt, 
Greece, Rome, etc. and which it is admitted hold sway in Europe 
at present, we must go to the very cause of the trouble and be 
willing to look truth squarely in the face and accept it where 
we find it. 
If we are of open and willing mind, then we must carefully 
study all that we find written by the great leader of the Israelites. 
He did not complain when God asked him to accept the Laws 
which govern the creative functions as the same Laws which give 
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The teachings of all churches lay great stress on the evils 
of fornication, adultery etc. and rightly so, but nothing whatever 
is taught of the dire results of indulgence in the Marriage Rite 
by those who, though married, do not love each other. Pious 
eyes have been closed to countless number of cases where women 
have been forced to grant favors to their wedded partners when 
every fibre of their being chilled at the mere request. Uncounted 
number of husbands have requested and received favors of wives 
they did not love, simply because they rebelled being accused of 
unfaithfulness, though as a matter of fact, the wives who grant- 
ing requests cared as little for the husbands. 
We contend now as always, where the husband demands 
favors from the woman when she does not love or is not willing 
to comply, and when such are forced in spite of the unwilling- 
ness of the woman, it will mean disease and a gradual decay of 
her vital forces, while for him it will mean damnation generally 
and death to both body and sou] if the practice is continued. In 
case a child results, it may be an idiot or a moral weakling. If 
the child is a boy, it may become a libertine or pervert, if a girl, 
then possibly another street walker whom all condemn, when in 
fact, the blame does not belong to either the boy or girl, but on 
the father whose undesirable creation they may be. 
If man demands a favor which is not cheerfully complied 
with and granted in love, he more surely commits an act of 
prostitution, than if he escorts a girl of the street and pays her 
for favors she may grant. 
In countless cases of legalized prostitution, unnumbered 
children have been born, lacking in their love nature, in Spiritu- 
ality, in all that makes man truly man, or woman really woman, 
because the union which was the cause of their creation, was one 
of downright lust, hatred, aversion. What nature of child can we 
expect from such a union. Such a child may be and often is, 
the beginning of a long line of descendants who are all lacking 
in something which make up the moral, spiritual, divine and 
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How repulsive are these truths! Truths they are neverthe- 
less. If we desire to free this fair earth of prostitution we must 
not rest content with trying to reform those who are denizens of 
the brothel, we must cease creating others who will take their 
place. This can be accomplished in no other way than by plac- 
ing creation upon a religious basis as was done by Moses of old. 
The creative act itself must be considered in the same light as 
that of prayer, i. e. a performance of love and devotion, not some- 
thing which must be shunned in the light of day and made a mat- 
ter of jest when the sun has set beyond the horizon. 
Having made a beginning in teaching truths regarding all 
that concerns sex, why not face squarely the two Divine Com- 
mands which have come to us down the ages and for all time 
ignored. Two commands which obeyed, would abolish all crime, 
abuse and degradation of the creative functions; wars and 
rumors of war, making man the superior being he should be, 
instead of a weakling; the hateful, lustful and revengeful crea- 
ture he usually is. These two Commands are: "Cast not thy 
seed upon the ground," for know "The Soul that Sinneth it 
shall surely die." 
While the country was at war, the Government indicated in 
its various publications on the subject, it would appreciate it if 
the people were taught the spiritual significance of sex. This 
certainly is desirable and far in advance of the attitude formerly 
held by organized Society. However, as the Soul or Spiritual 
part of man is based primarily on the physical man we believe 
it to be of great importance that we first teach the people the 
bearing sex and its practice has on the body and then proceed 
to the next step which is its Spiritual significance. 
According to all the great Law-givers, there are but two 
functions of sex. First: the creation of new beings through 
which God must be glorified and will be if the right attitude of 
Love and Goodness prevails. Second: the Spiritual function, 
whereby through the Marriage Rite the nature of man and 
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performance of prayer. In either case must the relationship be 
normal and based on love and mutual desire, the compliance of 
the woman being won, not gained through brute force. 
If there is to be a reformation in so far as procreative mat- 
ters are concerned, then we must begin with the young, we must 
teach them these mighty truths so they, when the time comes, will 
not prostitute their power, and bring into the world children un- 
less they are love personified, and not creatures of incarnate 
lust as now is generally the case. 
Give a religious basis to the creative functions, just as 
prayer and all worship of God is the base of true, vital religion, 
for in truth, Love and all that it implies is the acme of the 
religious. 
If we begin to teach the boy in his youth and continue to 
teach him until he reaches the age of responsibility, that one of 
the greatest curses under which mankind has for ages bowed 
down and suffered, is his inhumanness in asking for and ac- 
cepting favors from a woman he does not love, if he is taught 
this truth so he will believe it, taught that love is the only reason 
permitting Sexual Congress and that this elevation of sex to a 
religious basis is the foundation of Salvation of the Soul, there 
need be no fear of him prostituting his creative powers. There 
will be no danger of him contracting any of the loathsome and 
destructive diseases and the innoculation of others with it. 
We admit that many of those who have been born in lust 
and therefore the children of lust, will continue in the way of 
their fathers, but we are speaking of a new and rightly born race, 
a generation of Super Superior Beings, because born in love and 
where wanted. 
The boy born in holy (not prostituted) wedlock, who has 
been taught the law, will not think of seeking the prostitute for 
relief any more than he would think of insulting his mother. An 
ideal he reverences as a religion, as the means whereby Immor- 
tality is gained, he will not abuse, to him it is Holy and Divine. 
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begin the treatment at the base of the disease rather than attempt 
the destruction of that which is diseased. 
Laws are necessary for the control of evil, but no law or 
force, no matter how drastic, will ever wipe away the evils of 
prostitution and of social disease until the cause for prostitution 
and such diseases is eliminated. 
The way to salvation is to teach man the truth. Teach him 
all that concerns his creative functions, both the use and abuse. 
Show him that in right use is found health, happiness and Im- 
mortality. In abuse disease, unhappiness, misery, birth of idiots 
and perverts, and final damnation to himself and his creation. THE LAW OF TRANSMISSION 
Heredity 
If we desire the very best possible working knowledge re- 
garding the Law of Heredity, we can do no better than consider 
the breeding of fancy stock such as cows, horses, dogs or poultry. 
This is because in the case of animals no outside influence enters 
except feeding, which plays a large part in the development of 
the stock. In other respects the Law of Heredity works nor- 
mally. 
With the human being so many factors apply that the Law 
has hardly ever a chance of working out fully; and what modi- 
fies or intensifies the force of the Law more than anything else 
is the mental influence of the parents. However in the breeding 
of stock this does not enter at all, because animals only obey the 
natural law. 
Animals mate at the right season. If for any reason the 
service is either too late or too early there will be no results; 
while, if the proper time is taken advantage of, there will be 
conception. When the female conceives, the male will not even 
have desire for cohabiting. In other words, mating and the 
bearing of young in the animal kingdom come through natural 
laws. All that is necessary for the owner of live stock is to care- 
fully select the mates so that they are suited to each other. 
We can best learn by example, for instance, we have been 
carrying on experiments for the last ten years in breeding fancy 
poultry and four years with Collies of the highest blood lines. 
If we have a female who is short in head but weak in coat, 
we secure the services of a male who is long in head but slightly 
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coat, since the coat cannot be too heavy. By mating the long 
headed male with the short headed female we can be fairly cer- 
tain that the result will be, young with heads longer than the 
female though possibly not as long as that of the male. How- 
ever, here we are confronted with the great unknown; which is 
the stronger vitality, the male or the female? If the female is 
stronger than the male, it is easily possible that the young will 
take after her, though one or two may follow after the male. If 
the male is much stronger than the female, the young are liable 
to be like him with the exception of a few. If they are evenly 
matched the young may be a medium between the two. 
Therefore, while there is no certainty of results in so far as 
characteristics of features are concerned, we are certain of one 
thing, that if both are healthy and strong and if the food given 
the female during the time she is in whelp is of the right kind, 
the young will be strong and healthy with but very few excep- 
tions. 
There is one thing we are never certain of and that is what 
we call the "throw-back." This means that although we mate, 
for instance, two beautiful sable dogs, we are liable to obtain one 
or more in the litter which are black excepting a little sable 
around the eyes and the mouth. This shows that possibly one of 
the ancestors, two or three generations back, were black and 
white, and now after a number of generations, that which has 
been dormant, again becomes visible. The young of such a black 
and white dog will be like him, or at least some of them will 
resemble him. This proves conclusively that, although this black 
color did not show in several generations, it was not dead but 
dormant and ready to manifest its full power in another genera- 
tion. This is the unknown, the mystery in procreation. 
In the human family however, the rule is: "like produces 
like;" and this likeness is more frequently after the mother than 
the father. This is due to the fact that while the father supplies 
the seed-germ, and while the whole of the future being is con- 
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ease, as the case may be, it is the mother who fashions the new 
being. This new being in most cases is fashioned by the 
thoughts, the desires and the passions of the mother during the 
time of gestation. If she knows the law she can bring forth a 
god-man even though the father is practically a non-entity. The 
mother's work can extend to even giving the child a healthy and 
vitally strong being even if the father is a weakling, provided the 
father does not suffer from syphilis, cancer, or insanity. Even 
these last two can be eliminated by the mother during the time 
of gestation. Syphilis, except in very rare cases, cannot be over- 
come although it may not show up in that generation but lie dor- 
mant and manifest in some future generation. 
Although the child most often takes after the mother, it must 
not be understood that this is always true. A superior man who 
has an honest but inferior woman as wife can produce genius in 
the following manner: 
The time when man possesses the greatest power is during 
the times he loves and desires the sexual embrace. It is at this 
time that he brings into play every force within his being, and 
at the moment of the climax he makes positive every part of his 
being. If the woman grants his request because she desires the 
embrace, and if she either loves him or is passively fond of him, 
if the man holds in his mind all through the embrace and es- 
pecially at the moment of the highest joy the great desire for a 
healthy, normal and superior child, he will, so to speak, draw 
the very forces from heaven. If he repeats this each time he 
indulges in the marriage rite throughout the entire period of 
gestation, he can accomplish just what the woman can accom- 
plish had she the knowledge and the character. 
If both the man and the woman understand the secrets of 
Higher Race Development, it is easier to raise healthy, normal 
and God-like offspring. Ten such wedded couples who love, 
understand the law and faithfully practice it, could completely 
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powerful and so influential that they could easily rule the rest 
of the race with beneficence. 
While the power of the mother is naturally much stronger in 
fashioning the character, features etc. of the child, yet she can- 
not readily contaminate the child with such a disease as syphilis. 
If the father has this disease, it seems it becomes part of the 
very life germ. But if the mother has this disease, it may be- 
come part of her ovum, though experience demonstrates that the 
child is not as readily contaminated through the mother as the 
father. On the other hand, the father may be from a family 
afflicted with insanity and yet have healthy offspring free from 
any taint of it, providing the mother is of normal mind and 
more positive in her nature than the father. This is due to the 
fact that mental forces are more readily contributed by the 
mother and disease by the father. 
We face some serious contradictions of the Law of Heredity 
when we step without the bounds of the physical. For instance, 
it is a well known fact that the sons of great men are seldom 
great and the sons of financial giants are seldom successful busi- 
ness men. While this may appear superficially as a contradic- 
tion of the Law yet it is not, as will be shown. 
A man may have been a physical giant but gradually 
through negligence deteriorates into a weakling. Such a man 
would hardly have as strong an offspring as under his former 
virile condition. For a similar reason the great philosopher, the 
great general, or the powerful magnate, seldom has a son or 
daughter who is like him, because his whole mind and all his 
energies are given to the special work he is engaged in, and he 
has no strength or energy left for procreation, possibly hardly 
thinks of what he is doing. In other words, he follows the mar- 
riage rite either because he considers it a duty, or because of 
sensual desire, very seldom or never because he thinks to bring 
another like unto himself into being. If he were to forget his vo- 
cation for a short while and husband all his energies and powers, 
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virile energy he utilizes in his chosen field, he could accomplish 
wonderful results. 
There is another reason why children usually take after the 
mother unless she is weak and sickly, in which case it were far 
better if she would not have children, and that is that, while 
procreation is a passing fancy or an accident on the part of the 
father, it absorbs the whole life of the mother; and if she is 
natural and normal all her power, her energies and her thoughts 
are concentrated upon the coming child. 
Although heredity is the base of our strength or our weak- 
ness, it should not be made the base of our excuses; one who is 
not physically or mentally all he or she could be, should not 
make the excuse of having been so born. Being born with a 
weak body is no excuse for keeping that body during a life time. 
Experience has shown that among statesmen, athletes and phil- 
osophers as well as others who have won world renown, it is not 
necessary to keep what has been given us by our parents; and 
that the weak body, the weak mind and the weak vital powers 
can be made strong and vigorous through a system of living and 
practice if we will and desire it. 
Similarly, because a man inherits syphilis from his par- 
ents or it was transmitted to him through his parents from his 
grandparents is no reason for him to go through life with this 
filthy and destructive disease and to die from it while still young. 
He can, through force of will and effort, if such will and effort 
be strong enough, free himself from this disease. 
While we should fully recognize the Laws of Heredity or 
Transmission, we should understand the greater Law-we are 
what we make ourselves, and the making is a result of how we 
live, the food we eat, the thoughts we think and the effort we 
make. Being born weak and inert, it requires a powerful mental 
push to cause us to begin a life which will free us from inherited 
weaknesses. The Law of heredity should not be a matter of 
concern to those now living. We know what we are. If we are 
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unfair to us and to turn our back upon the past and to set out to 
gain strength and vitality. We should recognize that the Law 
of Transmission concerns only the unborn and that it is our 
bounden duty to enlighten the world regarding this Law with 
its physical, mental and nervous aspects that the unborn may not 
be burdened with weaknesses from which the multitude suffer. 
To begin with we should not attempt to create a new being 
unless at the time of such creation we ourselves are strong men- 
tally and physically. As we prepare the foundation for the 
building of a house so should we prepare the foundation for the 
new being we are about to create. Having accomplished this, 
the next step of the parents to be is to choose the proper time. 
The creative embrace in this case should be after thorough pre- 
paration. The parents should be at their highest state of physi- 
cal, mental and moral condition, and should not only desire the 
embrace but the fruits as well. 
When conception has taken place, the parents have definite 
duties to perform. The man should pay strict attention regard- 
ing his treatment of his wife, never causing her annoyance in any 
way regarding her person and never approach her unless he has 
reason to assume she desires it and never force such attentions 
when objectionable. 
Considering the embrace, it should be undertaken in its 
highest form. The base of it should be love and not passion, 
and it should not be given up till she is fully satisfied. More- 
over, the embrace should not be undertaken oftener than desired 
lest it leave its impression upon the unborn. This embrace 
should never be refused when she courts it, lest the child be born 
love hungry and become a Magdalene because of an unnatural 
desire. 
Such are the important considerations in the creation of a 
new being. But under present conditions the average father 
does not understand the Law, thinks of his pleasure only, dis- 
gusts his mate by his inconsiderate attentions, and thereby for- 
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is, a curse through all the days of its life, causing unnatural de- 
sires which end in perversions or in a nature entirely cold and 
devoid of feeling. On the other hand, if the father holds the 
erroneous idea that it is wrong to hold the sexual embrace during 
pregnancy, it will cause the mother to be love hungry through 
this period. Through this the child will be impressed with this 
love hunger all its life, manifesting this in not being satisfied 
with one man or one woman, forever seeking what does not ex- 
ist for itself, since its nature is not to be satisfied. 
On the part of the woman her duty -to the unborn is to hold 
that attitude of mind which will not mark the child with im- 
patience, hysterics and the many other states and conditions 
which result from an unsettled mind, a mind which is never at 
rest or at peace and never satisfied. Her duty is to build up the 
body of the coming child through proper foods, bathing and ex- 
ercise, and to build up the mental forces through right thinking, 
cheerfulness, true and pure thoughts, and through the reading of 
good books, the hearing of good music and the enjoyment of 
healthful and wholesome recreations. Truly, her duties are tre- 
mendous if she but realizes them. If she fulfills them she will 
be compensated a thousandfold in the development of the child, 
because the love she holds in her heart and mind for the unborn 
will be the connecting link that will bind the child to her and to 
her God in the years to come. 
Physical conditions must be taken into account during the 
important period of pregnancy. Very often this condition brings 
about irritations or enlargements in the physical being which in 
turn react powerfully upon the nervous and the mental system. 
If any untoward conditions should make their appearance from 
no apparent reasons it should be a warning that search should 
be made and the cause found and removed. 
Many women during this period develop a strange appetite 
which seems beyond reason. If it is for something which is in 
itself unharmful, her appetite should be appeased, although she 
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gestion or satiation and to do so would affectively impress the 
child. 
Above all other things, no matter what her opinions on 
morality may have been, the mother should read no literature 
which savors of loose morality and should not under any cir- 
cumstances allow any conversation to take place in her presence 
which is unclean and immoral. She should not indulge her ap- 
petites, should not associate with individuals of questionable 
morals and should fully control her own thoughts. She should 
think, desire and hunger for the things which she feels the 
angels would desire, because there is no habit, weakness or qual- 
ity more easily inherited than a weak moral nature; and it is 
because of such an inheritance by the multitude of children, that 
we have the white slaver, the Magdalene of the streets, the liber- 
tine, the debauchee, the pervert, the idiot and the insane. PREPARATION FOR A NEW LIFE 
Pre-Natal and Heredity Influences 
"That which is worth doing is worth doing well." 
All of us are familiar with this old and true saying, but 
there should be another equally as true: "If a child is to be 
born it should be born right." How many of the countless num- 
ber have been born under this Law ? On the contrary, birth has 
been under the law of "any old way" and Nature had to do her 
best with what had been forced upon her because of ignorance 
and prejudice. 
The law of Heredity has to do with an inheritance of the 
qualities of good or bad which are part of the parents and which 
more than likely has been part of grandparents and great-grand- 
parents, often further back than that. The law of Pre-natal in- 
fluence has to do with the impression upon the child of those 
qualities, powers and virtues which neither of the parents pos- 
sessed, but which they desired for the child. Hereby do we 
come to an understanding that the Law of Pre-natal influence is 
of far greater importance than the Law of Heredity since the 
power of Pre-natal influence can modify or set aside entirely, the 
Law of Heredity. 
We are fully aware of the fact that many scientific men 
have, and do at present, laugh at the idea of investing the child 
with powers and with virtues which the parents do not possess 
themselves, have considered it as commendable but foolish, to 
think that the mother, by having works of art, painting of beauty, 
in her room and looking upon this picture often, desiring the 
being about to be born should be like it, could give birth to a 
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But would these same men allow us to hang, at the foot of 
the bed, wherein rest their own wives or daughters when en 
ciente, a picture of some fearful accident, or that of men with 
ugly countenance? We are willing to wager they would not. If 
that which is fearful to behold and undesirable to look upon can 
make an impression upon the woman and child, why cannot 
something which is beautiful do likewise? 
These men may say that the ugly picture would affect the 
mind and the nerves and thus do harm to the unborn. We admit 
this at once, but if this be true then why cannot the beautiful 
picture in like manner calm the mind and the nerves of the 
woman, thus stamping beauty upon the child ? Is it possible for 
the pendulum of the clock to swing one way without swinging 
the other? Is the Law not always double? Must there not be 
a Negative for every positive? A magnetic force for every elec- 
tric, a North pole for every South? The Laws of Life are dual, 
not single. 
One of the most authoritative accounts of pre-natal influence 
or maternal impression is given in the Biblical lore where it is 
stated that even in the animal kingdom the female can be so 
impressed as to bear young with the resemblance of that which 
she constantly sees before her. We have reference to the story of 
Jacob and the sheep. Is this an allegory ? Will scientists calmly 
tell us that this story is impossible and without truth, that the 
Bible account is a fanatic's dream? If they do claim this then 
where is the proof that all other Biblical stories are not likewise 
merely fiction to entertain the one foolish enough to waste time 
in reading them ? If, however, it is admitted as a fact, then will 
they claim that man is less than animal and that things which 
can be accomplished in the animal world cannot in the human 
kingdom. 
In our day we have given every attention to the question of 
breeding in the animal world. We have carefully studied its 
vims, what it likes or dislikes, we have even carefully watched 
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when we breed the animal we carefully remove everything that 
irritates it. We give it only those foods for which it shows a 
preference, and we do everything else in our power to make it 
comfortable, prevent it from becoming irritable, shocked or sur- 
prised. And this simply because it is valuable in dollars and 
cents, because we want to produce superior stock. 
But how is it in the human kingdom? Do we give any 
thought whatever to the time of conception, do we watch the 
season, do we watch the day when it would be best for the coming 
child to be conceived? Do we see that the mother is prepared, 
that she is ready and willing, whether she desires to begin the 
ordeal? When she has conceived, will she be careful to avoid 
those things which might irritate or shock her, will she seek for 
harmony and for entertainments that elevate her? Will she 
study books that, instead of exciting and making her morbid, 
will calm and cause her to look upon the beautiful in life? Will 
she be careful in the selection of her diet, avoiding those foods 
which experience has taught her are not good for her though the 
taste may be all that is desired ? Is all this done as we would do 
it in the animal kingdom, or do we go about the whole matter in 
a way which clearly proves we are as ignorant on the subject as 
were our forefathers and that we still trust Nature to turn out a 
god where we have given the inception and incentive for the 
creation of a fool or an idiot. 
Men and women have not even partially awakened to the 
great power they possess, have not become conscious of their 
great responsibility, duty and possibilities in the creative world. 
They have been taught to think only of themselves, their own 
salvation, they do not know that they are responsible not only 
for their own health and strength, their own salvation, but that 
they are actually responsible for their children, their children's 
children and their great-grandchildren. 
Let us face this question squarely as honest men and women 
should. Let us take a concrete example of Heredity for instance, 
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In the archives of the former Physio-Medical Society of the 
State of Indiana, is the record read before that Society in 1909, 
by one of the members, of a woman who was weak mentally and 
who had been taken advantage of by a brute in human form; the 
usual result: an illegitimate child was born, the father of the 
child refusing to marry the mother. 
This illegitimate child, having no one to look after its wel- 
fare, interests, training and education, and the State having 
neither the time nor the inclination to take interest in an illegiti- 
mate offspring of a weakling, became a woman of the street and 
gave birth to a number of children. 
These children in turn followed a life of ill-fame, some of 
them became women of the street, others were imbecils, some 
became criminals, still others were wards of the state, until, in 
the year 1908 I believe there were some 385 issues from the one 
woman and among them there was not a single man or woman 
of which the State could be proud. They were all to be classed 
as weaklings and degenerates. 
This is the history of but one case, the story and shame of 
but one State, how many cases are there like this. 
Who is responsible for all the crimes, sorrows, miseries and 
heartaches of these three hundred and eighty-five progeny of 
this one woman? Though they were weaklings and idiots, 
criminals and imbeciles, it must be admitted they had feelings. 
Had the state done its full duty to the one woman, would the 
rest have followed ? Let answer who will. 
Much of the blame must be placed at the feet of society 
which generally considers itself too pious and refined to lift those 
who have gone wrong, and who even have laws passed to pre- 
vent others from teaching the truth, as has been done time and 
again. Next to society is the State, though the State is actually 
made up of this same society. The State spends money freely 
employing, men to study the best methods of breeding and feed- 
ing hogs, but has no money to invest in studying methods of 
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And what of the woman, the first one to give birth to this 
brood of degenerates, these undesirables? Though she was the 
beginning of it she is the least to blame, because she was born 
wrong, she was ignorant, she did not receive the training and 
education which was hers by right of being born, and through 
which she might have been strengthened, and so enlightened 
as to either not give birth to children, or in the case of children, 
have the knowledge of developing and training them as they 
should have been. 
Though the foregoing is an awful picture it is but one of 
countless numbers of like cases. Though we practically free this 
woman from blame because of her weakness and ignorance, we 
cannot free the modern woman from blame because to her is 
given the opportunity to know the Law, that Law which will 
make her free. Let us consider the modern woman, the bright 
side of the question of generation in an enlightened state. 
We take a woman from the ordinary ranks of life. We 
teach her all the duties which she owes to herself as a woman. 
She thinks right, reads good books, learns the proper value of 
foods and obeys dietary laws, she takes exercises such as every 
normal woman should, she is, in face, the true, up-to-date 
woman, though possibly lowly in birth and poor in this world's 
goods. 
Conception takes place, she understands the law let us say, 
as well as we understand the breeding of high class collies, she 
reads only such books she knows will have a good influence on 
the mind of both herself and the coming child, be it boy or girl. 
She allows no obscene or shocking pictures in the house and is 
especially careful of those in her own room. She associates only 
with cultured people who use refined language, she sees plays 
that are refining and constructive, continues her cold baths in 
the morning, internal baths when necessary, takes walks, normal 
amount of exercise, deep breathing drills, does her work and 
keeps fully occupied, avoids everything which might cause nerv- 
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is careful of diet, avoiding all such as might congest the system 
and interfere with a clear brain and good circulation. 
She refuses to have sexual relationship with her husband 
unless she actually desires it or is brought to the desire by his 
caresses. Is woman enough, knows she has liberty enough, to 
indicate her real feelings when he does not notice it himself. 
Let such a woman, in such a condition, live such a life, bring 
forth a child and the new race of men will have been started. 
Supposing this child is a girl, the mother teaches her the 
truth as she has been taught it, raised her under the Laws govern- 
ing a Superior Race, this child reaching womanhood does like- 
wise with her children, can we begin to estimate what this will 
mean to the world in a few generations ? Can we not partly un- 
derstand the influence such superior beings will have on the en- 
tire world as their morals would be uncorruptible. 
Aside from the benefit to the world, can we begin to com- 
prehend the untold blessings such a race would be to the mother 
who had started it? Thus in truth, would the blessings of the 
children be visited upon the mothers and fathers, while the Wis- 
dom of the elders would be visited upon the children, rather 
than the "sins of the fathers." 
Can it be argued that this is an idle dream; that it is the 
ideal state; that it is not practical in every day life? It cannot, 
because men and women can read good literature just as easily 
as destructive, vulgar, obscene publications. They can have 
beautiful pictures as readily as any other kind. They can be 
occupied as easily as give way to their "nerves" while others do 
their work. They can walk and exercise in place of sitting in a 
rocking chair and resting. They have the privilege of attending 
good plays in place of the questionable shows, and above all, 
they can obtain good, nutritious, nerve building foods as cheaply 
and as easily as rich meats, sweet cakes, candies, spiced foods 
and useless desserts, which are of no value, simply satisfy an 
abnormal taste and clog the system, causing weakness and low 
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The true life is as easily lived as the destructive. It is 
merely a question of making a change, moving from an old worn- 
out, leaky house to one that is modern and up-to-date. It is a 
question merely of accepting the right and following it. It means 
no self denial, but the doing of the right thing in the right place 
and at the right time, forbids no innocent pleasure, no harmless 
recreation, no good food, no enjoyment that brings happiness. 
Man has come to consider himself lord of creation, but how- 
consistent is he, and how the Lord of creation must smile at 
man's arrogance, though it is the cause of His sorrow. 
The farmer who understands his work, when the time of 
seeding comes, will carefully prepare the soil, he will plow the 
fields, will fertilize them, may even analyze the soil to learn 
whether it be in condition for a good crop. 
When he is ready to sow his seed, let us say it is wheat, he 
will patronize a dealer in whom he has every confidence and 
select only the very choicest seed that has been tested for germina- 
tion. When he has obtained it he will then watch the proper 
time for sowing. If a careful and experienced man, not any time 
will do, he will cnoose a day when he believes the possibilities of 
its germination will have the greatest chance. After the seed is 
sown every care is given it assuring an increase equalling his 
expectations. And all for what? Simply that he may gather a 
crop that will insure food to consume or to convert it into money 
usable for other necessities of life. 
But what of that greatest of all crops-the human family? 
How many make any effort to prepare the ground thoroughly, 
who will select the seed (live a life such as will justify the 
thought that the seed is strong, healthy and vital). Will he 
watch the time of sowing, will he watch the seed after it begins 
to germinate and will he take care of it while it is growing? 
Will he continue to watch it and care for it up to the time of 
reaping ? 
Not at all, these are things of too little importance to him. 
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ture's duty? And when the children are born to him full of 
weaknesses, with criminal tendencies, always ill, always a source 
of sorrow to him, will he not curse God for visiting upon him 
that which he, in his own criminal ignorance and carelessness 
called into being? 
If we desire a race of superior beings we should go a step 
farther back than merely considering the Laws of Heredity and 
Pre-natal influence. 
We should begin with the children now born, carefully in- 
struct them in all the Laws of Procreation , carefully prepare 
them for the great work of new creation. Through training 
eradicate from their nature all that is undesirable, and build in 
its place all that is desirable. 
We should teach them all the Laws pertaining to Environ- 
ment, Imitation, Personal and Pre-natal influence and Heredity, 
so that they can employ such knowledge in the new creation. 
Carefully must we impress upon them that in true preparation 
half the battle is won, that Heredity is the foundation, while pre- 
natal influences and impressions are the building, that one is as 
important as the other. 
Is it worth while to take all this trouble ? Seemingly, while 
we are young and while the world looks bright and rosy to us 
and when we do not need see the suffering of little ones, it is not, 
but as we advance in years, as we have children of our own and 
see their suffering, we begin to appreciate the suffering of other 
people, then do we begin to realize the vast importance of pre- 
venting this misery and sorrow rather than finding a remedy 
for it. 
The fearful price we pay as a nation for the heedless fash- 
ion in which our children are created, born and raised, is readily 
comprehended when we remember that in the United States alone 
there are now more than one million weaklings and degenerates 
filling our prisons and our insane asylums, and in this statistic 
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vanced stages of syphilis, cancer, tuberculosis and various filthy 
blood diseases, the base of which, often the direct cause of de- 
pravity of nature, is found in the life; and birth of the individual. 
No place in nature is man as neglectful as in that of the 
birth and rearing of children, for in this one department of crea- 
tion he is not only ignorant but he wilfully avoids the subject as 
though it did not in the least concern him. 126 
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What it teaches men. 
It has often been stated, and with good reason, that men 
generally are like sheep: "Where one leads the others will fol- 
low." It may be said with equal truth: Instead of being crea- 
tive or initiative, men are imitative. This inborn practice of 
being imitative rather than initiative or original, is even more 
pronounced in children than it is in the adult. 
Practically the whole life of the child, whether boy or girl, 
is given up to the attempt of mimicing those by whom it is sur- 
rounded, and because of this it is of paramount importance that 
the child, while in the habit forming age, should be as free as 
possible from associates whose thoughts, speech and habits are 
undesirable and destructive. 
Probably the first thing in life it takes any great interest in 
is seeing its mother, father, brothers and sisters walking about it 
and as it watches them move from place to place, there is with- 
out doubt aroused within it a desire to do likewise. 
As soon as it is old enough to give an indication of this de- 
sire it shows an inclination to reach the floor and if this be al- 
lowed it will not be long before it will attempt and soon learn to 
creep. In this it shows initiative for the first time in its life as 
it does that which it has not seen any others do. 
Once having become proficient in creeping, the next act on 
its part is an attempt to get on its feet by holding on to some ob- 
ject and this accomplished it will not be long before it will make 
every effort to reach another object, not by creeping to it, but by 
walking just as it sees others about it walk from one place to 
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In learning this first lesson of self-dependence, there are 
usually many falls, slight injuries and much that might discour- 
age it in its effort to be as others are. But it never concludes that 
the results are not worth every effort it can make, or that it is a 
waste of energy, which can readily be avoided if it will indicate 
its desire to be moved from place to place by crying, knowing 
that those near it would take and carry it. 
Instead of thus indicating its desire to be dependent on 
others, and thereby avoid hurts and bruises, it continues to try, 
despite fall after fall, until at last it accomplishes that which it 
set out to master-it is able to walk. 
This is the first great lesson that Nature has in store for all 
of us. A lesson most of us forget when misfortune befalls us, 
is nothing less than Nature testing all men to learn whether they 
are fit for existence, fit to be the master of circumstances, or to 
remain weaklings and slaves to those conditions which men 
should overcome. 
Nature tells us we must undergo severe trials, that storms 
will surround us, that time and again will failure be our lot 
where we had confidently expected success. 
Here men may learn a lesson from the child, which though 
weak, inexperienced and without knowledge gained from the ex- 
perience of others, nevertheless, because of its desire to be like 
others, will not give up even if that which it attempts results in 
falls, bruises and pain. 
Nature, however, unlike the mother of the child, will not 
pick us up and take care of us if we refuse to try further, she will 
leave us to our fate, and rightly so, if we are too weak and too 
inert to try further, for in the domain of manhood, the law of 
the survival of the fittest rules in every department of life. 
After the child has learned to walk, possibly while it is still 
learning, it will begin to pay a great deal of attention to the foods 
eaten by others of the family, and without question it is here we 
have the beginning of its health or its weakness the rest of 
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It is now freely granted by many of the world's greatest 
investigators that the food we eat has more to do with our state of 
health, strength, happiness and success in life than any other 
one thing. Moreover, it is also admitted that habits of eating, 
fondness for certain foods, are developed while we are young. 
And old adage is: "Tell me what you eat and I will tell 
you what you are," proves conclusively that men generally be- 
lieve, though possibly unconsciously, that the food we eat has a 
powerful influence on our health, our capabilities, our honesty 
and our morality. Therefore, it is essential that the child should 
be started with the proper food and only such, until firm habits 
of following correct diet is established. 
How frequently do we hear that no one can "make anything 
as good as mother used to make!" This is another proof that 
during the entire life we are more or less strongly held to the 
habit of eating only those foods which we had during childhood 
and youth and that even these must be prepared as mother pre- 
pared them if they are to meet with our approval. 
Some of the most destructive habits of which man is guilty 
are caused by, or the result of, certain foods. It has been au- 
thoritatively stated that the leaders of the Salvation Army in 
England, by establishing and maintaining hospitals for habitual 
drunkards and the vast experience gained thereby, finally came 
to the conclusion that drunkenness, in the majority of cases, is 
caused by a meat diet, and can readily be cured if a correctly 
balanced non-meat diet is substituted. 
Why is this true? Because meat is a passion producing, 
stimulating food, and as such calls for a counter stimulant. 
This is found in all intoxicating liquids. If we care to test this 
statement, all required of us is to offer a drink of beer, whiskey 
or wine to diners when a meal composed of ripe, luscious fruit 
is served. No one but the most pronounced indulger would ac- 
cept the strong drink. 
On the contrary, offer beer, liquor or rich wine to diners 
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soned dishes, richly spiced fruits, and all who are partial to the 
taste of drink will readily accept. Why, because one comple- 
ments the other and the two in combination call for still more of 
that which is sensation creating. 
This is an example of but one food, that of meat, and what 
it means to a nation to have it as a basic food, for so long as 
men will eat rich and rare meats, just that long will there be a 
demand for strong drink, and as long as strong drink is in- 
dulged, just that long will passions rule and degradation of 
minds and of bodies continue. 
The argument may be advanced that women who do not 
indulge in strong drink do eat meat, highly seasoned foods and 
richly spiced desserts. We admit the statement but answer it 
by calling attention to the fact that all of these women drink 
freely of strong coffee, strong teas or other drinks which are nerve 
deadening, and the results of which are as destructive to their 
finely organized nervous system as strong drink is to the mental 
faculties and morality in men. 
The question may well be asked whether boys and girls 
reared without meats would continue to so live after they left 
the parental roof. 
To answer this question we have resource to India with its 
millions of inhabitants. These countless people do not eat meat 
at all but exist on the natural foods native to their country and 
in this country drunkenness is unknown while morality is all 
that may be desired. 
The white race have imported strong drinks to India, but 
the habit has made no headway except in those sections where 
the civilized methods of the white race first established a state 
of degradation and then followed it with drugs, immorality and 
finally strong drink. 
We have no reference to the handful of degenerates living 
in India and of India's blood, but to the teeming millions who 
live on natural food, live a natural life and whose morals are 
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to any western country, among refined people, they will refuse 
to partake of meats, drugs or strong drink, and this even if they 
live for years among those who indulge in these things. 
They were born, taught and reared in an atmosphere free 
from these things and it is therefore inborn with them to live as 
nature intended man should, and the habits of others does not 
make any impression upon them or change them in the least. 
If we of the western world would serve only such foods as 
are required by the body to keep it in health, strength, vitality 
and virility we ourselves would be free from weakness and de- 
grading habits and we would make for a normal life and free- 
dom from sickness, weakness, and degradation in our children, 
and they would be as free, and remain as free from them as we 
find those people who live as God had intended they should. 
For this reason it is of vast importance that those anxious for a 
Superior Race of men shall make the conditions, through teach- 
ing and example, such as will make this possible. 
The next step in the life of the child is the speech. In un- 
numbered families there is no regard whatever for purity of 
speech and we believe this is prolific cause of immorality and 
perversion. 
Few people seem to realize the power of the spoken word, 
that words often carry suggestions which have lead to the down- 
fall of countless boys and girls. 
They do not realize that the child has no means of weigh- 
ing words and learning whether they are good, indifferent or 
bad, all it knows is that the words are used, that its mother, 
father, brother or sister use them and that because these loved 
ones use them they must be right. 
Hearing words time and again, gradually beginning to use 
them, they become a fixed habit, part of the child, and will be 
used until the child begins to think for itself and then com- 
mences to trace the action following the spoken word. 
To many people the spoken word is only a word, they do 
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the word not only carries a meaning, but that the child must 
think accordingly. If the language of parents and other children 
it associates with is vulgar, then as it gains knowledge of their 
meaning its impressionable mind will soon be filled with filth, 
consequently it is impossible for the child to remain morally 
clean, because degradation and perversion has its beginning in 
word and then imagination supplies what the act might be like 
which it has only heard mentioned as something desirable. 
The speech of parents and all with whom the child comes 
in contact should be pure and ennobling, there should be use of 
no word which may reflect upon the character or the action of 
any one of the family. If there is necessity for making refer- 
ence to any subject which the child should not hear, then those 
discussing it should withdraw and discuss the matter privately, 
under no circumstances should any question be discussed before 
children which make it prohibitive for them to ask questions. 
To do this and then refuse to answer such questions is to im- 
plant suspicion in their minds and this will at once eradicate 
the inherent primitive purity. 
We must remember that the girl thinks all her mother does 
is right, and no matter what the mother may say, or how vulgar 
her language, the child thinks it admirable to repeat. Likewise 
with the boy, whatever he hears the father or big brother say he 
takes pride in using, and so is the speech of our children formed. 
Refined if the parents and associates make use of refined speech. 
Vulgar if the parents and associates make use of vulgar speech. 
In many homes the discussion of sex questions is not for- 
bidden before very young children and most intimate relation- 
ship between father and mother, son and sweetheart, or daughter 
and friend are discussed as though these things were for all to 
hear. At first the child may pay no attention to these discus- 
sions, but gradually as it notices that whenever these subjects 
are mentioned there is much laughing and jesting, it will begin 
to ask questions, only to meet with laughter because the elders 
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understand. This will lead to doubt in his mind, awakening the 
imagination as to what it may be, dwelling on the words and sen- 
tences, giving them meaning they do not possess, and at first op- 
portunity questioning those young as himself. In this manner 
the minds of unnumbered children are poisoned at a very early 
age. 
Questions concerning sex should never be discussed before 
children until parents are ready and fully prepared to answer 
any question the child may ask. To do so, to have the child in- 
quire and be refused plain, unhesitating answers, is to start 
doubting, suspicion and disbelief when explanations are actually 
given. 
The rule should be: Use only words which you will not be 
ashamed, but be proud to have your son or daughter repeat in the 
presence of people whose opinion you hold dear. If you do this, 
you will never have cause for regret. 
Next to consider are the acts of parents and all those asso- 
ciating with the child during its imitative or habit forming age, 
and it is the imitation of these acts which will have great bearing 
on its future life. 
As in speech, the child naturally reasons that that which is 
done by those he loves must be right and he will endeavor to 
imitate them as nearly as possible. 
It behooves parents to be extremely careful in all their acts, 
all their little mannerism, to do nothing they would not have 
the child copy, moreover, it is equally important they do not 
allow playmates who have undesirable habits. 
When parents constantly do that which they have no wish 
the child should copy, it is worse than useless for them to explain 
to the child the undesirability of imitating them, the child will 
not reason according to the explanations given, but from the 
fact that loved ones did certain things and if it was right for 
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Puberty-Menopause 
While it is logical to claim that the most important period 
in the life of the individual is that between conception and birth 
as it is nearly always during that stage that everything which 
goes to the making of the future man or woman, physically, 
mentally and spiritually, is being shaped, nevertheless, the most 
dangerous periods of a woman's life are puberty and menopause, 
both changes of life but in a different sense. 
Puberty is that period of the girl's life when her creative 
organs are becoming so developed that they serve in the creation 
of a new being. It would be unwise for the average girl to be- 
come a mother so early in life, because the present day girl 
changes into womanhood frequently between the age of ten to 
fourteen years, and her physical condition is not what it will be 
when she is eighteen or twenty years old; because there is physi- 
cal growth for from four to six years after the change has taken 
place. The creative organs being developed, we must take into 
consideration the possibility of conception, since the girl's desires 
are those of a full grown woman, even though she is not yet 
actually fitted to assume womanly duties. On this account the 
period of puberty is the most dangerous time, when every care 
should be exercised that no misstep is made which may result in 
a ruined life. 
The protection should have had its beginning long ere this, 
since now is the time of watchfulness and not of instruction. 
Every mother in the land should realize this, should be taught 
fully everything that concerns her creative organs. Not only 
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creative organism, their functions, their right use and what con- 
stitutes abuse, but she should also be capable of giving such in- 
structions to her daughters as early as their minds are able to 
receive them, or as soon as they begin to question on the subject. 
It is unreasonable to assume that the average woman cannot 
comprehend the mysteries of her being. Those who think so do 
not give her credit for having the capacity to grasp the meaning 
of the organs and their functions. This is not difficult for the 
average mind to grasp. In fact, when simply taught by example 
and analogy, the knowledge is easily understood. Up to the 
present time it has been considered improper for a woman to 
even attempt to gain knowledge concerning her being, its powers 
and its weaknesses. She was prevented from mentioning any- 
thing concerning her creative organism except to her physician 
and only at a time when seeking medical aid. But this harmful 
idea is gradually disappearing, we are beginning to see that there 
is no more shame attached to the creative functions than to any 
other part of the body. We no longer consider any portion of 
man unholy or unclean, unless made so through misuse. 
Hence the first duty of those who are to teach a higher race 
development is to educate mothers and those who are the coming 
mothers, in the science of sexology. Our next duty is to teach 
those girls who will not be given instruction and who are seeking 
it. When the mother comes to a full comprehension of the sim- 
plicity of the subject, she will neither shrink nor refuse to give 
this knowledge to her daughters, knowing that thereby they will 
be safeguarded. Here as elsewhere, "Knowledge is Power." 
Just as the mother is taught so must the girl; and these in- 
structions must be given before the girl arrives at the age of 
puberty, so that she may be fully prepared for the change, other- 
wise great harm may come to her, injury from which she may 
never fully recover. 
Every physician is fully aware of the ignorance of the aver- 
age girl, and the ignorance under which mothers allow their 
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has not been informed of the girl, innocent and full of life who, 
playing with male companions, finds herself in a condition un- 
forseen and unprepared and who seeks for a cloth and cold water 
with which to free herself. In our experience we have met with 
many such cases, where the child, for such she is, having had no 
instructions, feeling that something serious has happened, seeks 
some hiding place, cold water and cloth and attempts to stem the 
tide, she often succeeds in doing so but at the expense of causing 
a congestion that may last for many months. When the menses 
again showed, they were irregular and abnormal. Of this the 
mother was never informed and learned only of it when the girl 
showed well developed signs of anemia or chlorosis, and was 
horrified that such a thing should have occurred. 
Does this speak well for our twentieth century enlighten- 
ment and our boast of being well informed on all important sub- 
jects ? Is it an honor for us to be forced to admit that more than 
nine-tenths of our girls grow up and reach the age of puberty 
without any knowledge of what they are to expect? Is it an 
honor to motherhood that these girls, in their ignorance, should 
attempt to hide, often with serious results, what every girl should 
look forward to and consider a normal part of her development ? 
Future generations will judge us accordingly. 
If after the child has made the mistake she learned the truth, 
the usual serious results might be avoided, but this she seldom 
does, consequently, in many cases there will be lifelong misery 
and suffering, because the system does not again become normal. 
The tendency in the past to forego mentioning this most im- 
portant subject the training of the girl in that knowledge which 
concerns her future welfare, has become so strongly inbred in 
the race, that we have come to be ashamed of mentioning the 
creative organs and their functions. This has become a race 
belief and women generally take it for granted that sex and sex 
life is simply a necessary evil under which they must bow the 
head and must be avoided as much as possible. 
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ing of animals or the birth of their young. We proudly speak 
of the birth of a new prize calf. We take great pride in raising 
pedigreed stock and consider it quite an achievement. Then why 
should we find it improper to consider the human young and the 
laws of its birth? Are we of less value than animals? This 
condition must be changed, and will through a system of rational 
education of the young as well as the old. 
Much to our chagrin must be laid at our door the crime of 
having over one half of the women in the world in a nervous and 
hysterical condition, made so through ignorant mothers not pro- 
perly preparing their daughters for the change of life. It is at 
the time when the creative functions of the girl are making 
rapid changes that great drain is made on the entire system. She 
will often appear irritable, nervous, dissatisfied, quick to anger, 
irrational, and all without apparent reason. She will desire 
solitude, will brood and will think no one cares for her. At times 
she will manifest great love and a moment thereafter will seem 
cold and distant. It is at this time that the mother must show 
great consideration and seek the cause. If ignorant, she will 
meet the child's coldness with coldness, her nervousness with 
scolding, and her moods with reprimands. Instead of under- 
standing the girl and her moods and gently guiding her, she 
will, through scolding, cause these symptoms to become more 
pronounced. Here is laid the foundation of a lifelong nervous, 
irritable and hysterical condition. 
Just about the time that this transition from girlhood to 
womanhood occurs, other important and radical changes also 
take place. Instead of playing with the boys, hugging and kiss- 
ing them as she formerly did, she becomes shy and no longer is 
willing to play the innocent games with them. The boys will 
not understand her and make her a subject of their jests which 
irritates her and often causes her to become abnormally sensi- 
tive. This may lead to permanent injury which could be avoid- 
ed if some consideration of her moods had been given. 
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nature asserts itself. The girl becomes conscious of desires 
within herself which she had not before known. She does not 
as yet know what it is to love and may not for many years; but 
she is conscious of a desire to be possessed, has a knowledge in- 
tuitionally that there is something which would give her peace 
and a feeling of satisfaction. This is intensified when in the 
presence of a male companion of whom she thinks much. This 
is the dangerous period of her life; and, unless she is fully in- 
structed along sex lines, she is liable to commit serious errors. 
For instance, if she is in company with a man or grown boy 
she likes, who is not thoroughly honorable, she may be easily 
aroused, so that her desire becomes pronounced, and she may 
then easily become a victim. When this happens society dis- 
cards her, condemns her, when in truth she does not know why, 
having been unconscious of having committed any wrong. 
On the other hand, if she associates with men, dances and 
plays games with them and if she does all these innocent little 
things natural to the normal girl, this same nature may be 
aroused and an irritation may result, possibly causing her to 
seek solitude and relief, ending in a fixed habit or solitary vice. 
Besides being taught sexology and that which she must 
expect, she must also be fully and clearly instructed as to the 
change of her inmost feelings and how to meet this through work, 
constant occupation, exercise, games, bathing, social intercourse, 
music, plays free from morbid or immoral suggestion and all 
other things which keep girls care free and occupied and health- 
fully tired when time for retiring arrives. 
Another reason why so many of the women of the present 
day are nervous wrecks is due to the fact that under our present 
educational system practically all girls are in school or college, 
under intensive study at a time when the entire system is under- 
going the great transition. 
All physicians admit this passing from girlhood to woman- 
hood requires all the strength of the girl that nervous complica- 
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from babyhood to girlhood is now needed so that this develop- 
ment be normal. 
We also recognize that our present methods of study re- 
quires all the nerve energy with which the girl is endowed if she 
is to compete with the healthiest and strongest of her school 
companions. 
Realizing these things we can readily see that it is practically 
impossible for the average girl to give all her strength and energy 
to intensive study, and at the same time undergo the most trying 
conditions and changes of life. Something must give way, and it 
usually is her nervous system. 
If we desire healthy, normal womanhood in the future radi- 
cal changes must be made in our school and college systems and 
rulings enacted by the Departments of Education in all states, 
requiring mothers of girls to report to the family physician im- 
mediately the menses begin, such physician to issue certificate 
to the girl, stipulating her to remain from school for one week. 
During this time she should have rest, fresh air, exercise, 
recreation, light reading, and other things which would tend to 
keep her mind from the condition and calm her nervous system, 
allowing nature to recuperate the vital forces. Great care should 
also be taken that sanitary laws are complied with, so that all 
unnatural irritation may be avoided. Many girls at this time 
becoming addicted to solitary vice thereby relieving the irritable 
sensations. 
We fully recognize the fact that this would work a hardship 
on School Departments and teachers, but this would most as- 
suredly be preferable to the present state when so many of our 
women are suffering from all manner of nervous disease and who 
are, as a consequence, totally unfit to become mothers of the com- 
ing men of the nation. 
Bathing should be regular, even through the menstrual 
period. This should be in the form of a sponge bath with cool 
(not cold) water, followed by a rub with a turkish towel, con- 
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must be kept regular, not through the use of nostrums, but by 
the use of the Internal Bath with pure castile soap or some good 
tonic. The food should be sustaining and nourishing; spices, 
condiments, rich pastries and red meats avoided. Nerve build- 
ing foods should predominate, such as, cheese, milk, eggs, fish, 
fruits, pulse and vegetables. 
There should be no discomfort or suffering during the time 
of the menstrual flow. If there is then it is a sure indication of 
abnormality. This may be due to congestion as a result of im- 
proper care being taken while the girl was undergoing the actual 
change. One of the organs having become weakened or abnor- 
mal (in which case the remedy is not easily found and time may 
be required). There may be a low state of vitality; in such cases 
bathing and proper foods will work wonders; but hard work 
and severe study should be avoided during the rebuilding. The 
cause may be rich foods such as, fats, chocolates, pies, candies 
etc. because these upset the liver and congest the system. 
We have used the words "change of Life" in connection 
with transition from girlhood to womanhood, though, correctly 
speaking, the change of life refers to the time when woman 
passes from her virile state during which creation is possible, 
back to the early state. 
The time of woman's fruitful years are varied. In some 
cases it may be from twelve to thirty-five or even to fifty. Gen- 
erally speaking it is found that women who have not borne chil- 
dren change at a much earlier age than those who have. How- 
ever, this is very far from a law, because just the contrary may 
be true. 
A woman whose mother experienced the change at the age 
of thifty-five it is liable to occur with her at about the same age; 
while the woman whose mother changed at fifty may look for it 
at a similar age. 
A belief prevalent which has caused them more misery than 
any other is that a woman ceases to enjoy the embrace of her hus- 
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change. This belief has brought suffering to countless women 
long before they approached the change, because they feared the 
time when the fires of love-passion would no longer burn and 
they would no longer please the man they loved, which might 
lead him to seek pleasures outside of his own fireside. In many 
cases this is true because it has become a race belief. Women 
before and at this time look for it. The constant fear and ex- 
pectation has resulted in closing up the means of affection; and 
by the time the change takes place, they actually lose all desire; 
with the result that the husband feels this and no longer looks 
forward to the affectional embrace. This clearly illustrates the 
Biblical expression: "The thing thou feared has come upon 
thee." 
Has this race belief any foundation? As a matter of fact 
there is absolutely no truth in it. On the contrary, a woman can, 
if she will, keep the affectional and creative fires alive during 
this period; and, if she does, then the desire on her part for the 
embrace and the power to even better please her husband after 
the change of life, becomes a law. This is due to the fact that 
congress can then be undertaken when love and desire calls and 
there is no fear of children. If we could succeed in spreading 
this knowledge broadcast so that all women could understand it, 
our labors would be amply rewarded in knowing that the lives of 
countless husbands and wives had been made happy and untold 
misery dispelled. 
Another fallacy of the past which has become a race belief 
is that when a woman enters the state called "Menopause," she 
must suffer the tortures of hell and must undergo all the ail- 
ments flesh is heir to. On the contrary, if she will follow a sys- 
tem of normal life before the change, just as the young girl does 
who is budding into womanhood, paying strict attention to the 
laws of bathing, diet, exercise, occupation and recreation, she 
can, aside from the irregular appearance of the flow, pass through 
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and misery attending it is caused, not by the change, but by lack 
of preparation and because the system is entirely unprepared. 
Just as the ovaries and uterus take on new life in the girl 
turning to womanhood so at the time of Menopause marked 
changes take place in these organs in returning to their former 
state. There is atrophy of the ovaries, but not necessarily of the 
uterus; because women of fifty-five and sixty have been found 
with the uterus in as perfect and pliable condition as during their 
most virile period. In such cases women looked much younger, 
were full of fire, eyes clear and bright, cheeks and lips full of 
color. All women can be thus if they will learn the law and 
obey it. This law is to look for no change in the affections and 
to look forward to an even greater fulfillment of life, by giving 
a little extra care and attention to the entire system, keeping the 
whole being alive by recreation, the mind fully awake and active 
and the body virile through exercise. They should attend good 
plays, associate with wide awake, cheerful women, never mention 
the change that is taking place, refuse to look upon the morbid 
side of life and eat those foods which will keep up vital forces 
and build up the nerve system. 
As with the girl entering womanhood who should be for- 
bidden intensive study or hard work at that period, so should 
the woman who enters Menopause be forbidden to be as active 
as she had been previously, the system requiring an extra sup- 
ply of nerve energy at this time. If this is not supplied the re- 
sult may be invalidism throughout her lifetime. The woman at 
this period is like a ship at sea during a storm and carrying a 
heavy load. If she is to hold to her course and reach port safely, 
speed must be reduced and motive power, or energy, increased. 
After the change has taken place, the woman no longer re- 
quires the extra amount of strength and vitality necessary while 
undergoing the critical stage. She will not need the amount of 
vitality she formerly required to make up for the losses sustained 
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she can be stronger, do harder work and better able to give great- 
er and deeper affection to her husband than previously. 
The great mistake made in the past and which is still 
prevalent is the generally accepted opinion held by women that 
the Menopause is an evil, or a disease. They have had good rea- 
sons to arrive at this conclusion from the fact that women who 
previously enjoyed health, no sooner entered the change of life, 
when they would be troubled with all manner of ills. 
As it is a natural function in every respect; instead of her- 
alding disease, misery and often death, it should really bring 
health and greater power to accomplish more than ever before. 
What is the true cause for the suffering of women during the 
change of life? Let us draw a lesson. Consider the case of a 
man who has been in apparent health, and while not strong, has 
been considered up to the average. Have you noticed that 
through a slight scratch a severe sore resulted and this in turn 
became a running ulcer, loathsome to behold, which would 
gradually cover a large area that would not heal? The reason 
for this condition was because the system was congested and 
fdled with poisons which thereby gained an opportunity to make 
itself manifect. The poison had found an outlet. 
Similarly, during the change of life, any weakness that had 
not manifested heretofore to any marked extent, now finds an 
outlet and does so at this time when the system is unprepared to 
stand any extra strain. Instead of seeking the actual cause, 
found in wrong living before this period, the change of life is 
blamed for it, when in reality it has nothing to do with the cause 
of suffering at this time, except to act as an outlet for the con- 
gestions in the system, as in the case of the sore in the foregoing 
illustration. 
Menopause should not cause women fear and dread, but 
rather should cause them to look forward to a time of greater 
peace and happiness. And that this may be so, due preparations 
must be made and the system prepared. If this is done, the 
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the dangers it is usually subject to. One fact cannot be too 
strongly impressed upon women, and that is, if they have been 
suffering from weaknesses, such as are usually classed as "fe- 
male weaknesses," leucorrhea, lacerated cervix or other ailments, 
they must expect to suffer during the change and they must not 
be lead to believe it will relieve them from such ailments. The 
time to treat these conditions is when they are felt. This will 
prepare woman; because if not cured before it is but natural the 
trouble should continue. In fact, the change will intensify the 
previous condition, and will afterwards result in a state of 
chronic illness, hysterical, nervous and irrational spells, making 
life miserable for themselves and others. 
The proper and natural way for all this to take place is for 
it to begin gradually. One month the menses will be regular 
while the next they may not make their appearance. One should 
not be alarmed at this, since it is Nature's method of freeing the 
system from a work which is no longer necessary. This condi- 
tion may continue for a year or more. At times the menses may 
show every month, then again they may not appear for several 
months. There may be flushes, feeling of exhaustion, nerves in 
a tremble. These are but symptoms and need not cause fear 
unless they become aggravated, in which case consultation with 
a good physician should be sought. If the flow becomes exces- 
sive, if there is great exhaustion, there is cause for alarm; these 
symptoms clearly indicating that the system is not strong enough 
to take care of the work to be done and is calling for relief which 
should be rendered immediately. This may be in the form of 
vitalizing food, some form of bath to stop the excessive flow, rest 
for the time being, plenty of fresh air and all those relieving 
agents which will help the body reestablish a normal condition. 
At this time it is possible to become subject to tuberculosis 
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poisons that were formerly thrown out monthly and which may 
now be accumulating because the vital forces may be too weak- 
ened to throw them out. 
A correct diet, composed of vitalizing foods, exercise, bath- 
ing, plenty of fresh air, harmonious social intercourse, recreation, 
music and the mind occupied, these are the remedies that will 
help during this time of change and result in establishing a state 
of health and happiness for the balance of life. MARRIAGE 
The Wedding Night 
"He who begins with his wife with rape is lost."-Arabian. 
This is exactly what the great majority of men do on their 
wedding night, and on account of this not more than eight per 
cent of marriages are a success, we are informed on good au- 
thority. 
We contend it is an absolute Law, and we have so taught it 
for more than seventy-five years, that the woman is the owner 
of her own body and sex rights, that no man can justly attempt 
to force her to sacrifice this under any circumstances. The only 
way he can obtain the consent to that nature is not through force 
but by love-conquest. Unless this may be accomplished through 
love caresses he has no right to take the privilege. Should he at- 
tempt to take possession or possess himself of that which is not 
lovingly granted by her, he sinks lower than the beasts of the 
field; and should the result of such piracy be a child, it must 
be expected that it will show criminal or debasing tendencies. 
On the other hand, it is equally true, though an unwritten law, 
that no woman should give assent to marriage with any man, 
unless she includes the understood promise of complying with 
the marriage Rite, at certain times favorable to herself, if won 
from her through love. 
The only law which God recognizes as being a valid one and 
under which the sexual embrace may be enjoyed, either for the 
purpose of generation or Re-generation, is love. If the woman 
cannot hold a feeling of love towards the man requesting the 
favor, for favor it is and not a right, she must not grant the 
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or when she cannot reciprocate the affection, she commits pros- 
titution as surely as does the Magdalene of the streets. And if 
the man attempts to, or does take, forcible possession of the 
woman he commits rape in the sight of God; and the woman, no 
matter how strong her love might have been, it will gradually 
turn to hate. 
Woman has been peculiarly constituted by the Creator pos- 
sibly for a good purpose. No matter how much she may desire 
the embrace, and no matter how ready and willing to give 
herself to it, she nevertheless likes to have the request made, 
likes to have the right to refuse and desires to be coaxed and 
caressed into submission. This is the heart of the woman. 
Man will do well to study and realize this. And if he be truly 
a man, and even if he but slightly understands woman, he will 
play his part with true knightly bearing, feeling within his heart 
that she is truly woman and that the favor desired is worth 
sueing for. The marriage rite must be based on love and com- 
pliance to it must be won. 
The misery and unhappiness in the lives of most married 
people is brought about through ignorance. The man receives 
no instructions regarding his duties, rights and privileges. He 
has in mind but one idea, privileges he expects but no duties. 
He thinks that all he needs is to gain her consent to become his 
wife, marry her, provide a home and supply her with clothes and 
food; then it is her duty to take care of the home, grant his 
requests whenever he desires and bear his children when such 
should result accidentally. On the other hand, she expects a 
home, love, very little sorrow or trouble, no self denial, and, 
worst of all, to be supplied with limitless quantities of love which 
should be sexless or nearly so. 
Under these false conceptions as to their duties and privil- 
eges the average couple are married, enter the marriage chamber, 
and emerge therefrom very much the wiser for experience and 
with, in most cases, disgust for him on her side and dissatisfac- 
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known to us, a case which we have carefully watched for many 
years. The young man in question looked upon women as the 
queens of heaven. He did not think that a woman would sell 
herself or her body. He understood something of the sex laws, 
fell in love with a young lady of nearly his own age and married 
her. That he loved her truly and tenderly there can be no ques- 
tion in our mind. That she loved him he had every reason to 
believe. His ideals concerning women, love, marriage and 
children were extremely high; and he would not have thought 
of marrying her unless he fully believed in her love for him. 
They were married. They entered the marriage chamber. 
Like all others of his kind, and naturally so, he requested, sued 
and coaxed for the privilege of the marriage rite. The lady 
refused, and, turning a cold shoulder to him, told him that had 
she married another young man whom she mentioned and who 
had shown her favors, he would have loved her without making 
any such request. 
Picture the effect of such a statement upon him ? It chilled 
him to the very center of life, and the love he formerly had for 
her who now was his wife, suffered a shock from which it took 
a long time to recover. Ever after, the memory of the incident 
remained to loom up ghost-like when he would think of again 
making such a request. 
This experience is merely an example of many others of 
similar character with slight modifications which takes place 
nightly throughout the world. In the main it is the result of 
false instructions girls receive from their mothers. These moth- 
ers are of a cold nature, have been begotten by mothers of a cold 
and embittered nature, and teach their daughters that there can 
be love between man and wife, true lasting love not based on sex 
desire. This is the most dangerous teaching that can be given to 
a young woman. It is as dangerous and destructive to her hap- 
piness as is the teaching to a young man that he is master of his 
own household, even of the privileges his wife alone can grant. 
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her rights and duties. She must be informed that passion is 
not love, that passion can exist without love and that when it is 
satisfied there is no longer any desire for the one who has satis- 
fied the passion. She must also be taught that, while there is 
love without passion among the angels, there is no such thing to 
be found in the human heart; because Nature has seen to it that 
where there is love there should also be passion, that there might 
be desire for possession, and through this desire the species 
would be propagated. She must and should be taught, that 
when man loves her, caresses her and requests her, it is her duty 
by the love she bears him to grant such requests, although this 
she should not do freely lest he come to consider it lightly and of 
little value. But she should bear in mind that it is not advisable 
for her to hold him off too long since he may come to think she 
is unwilling and thus cease his attentions to her. 
The young woman should be instructed as to the conse- 
quences of the rite, that while the base of it is for generation or 
regeneration, it is not forbidden her to derive enjoyment. How- 
ever, she must needs be impressed with the important fact that 
the embrace should never be undertaken for the mere satisfaction 
of the passion. It should be based on love primarily and princi- 
pally and then on some great desire, whether it be happiness, 
long life or health. It must not be neglected to inform her of 
the pain she will endure because the first marriage rite may be 
also the cause of the birth of a new condition, a new world; and 
birth is always painful, no matter what its nature. 
In addition, she must conserve her modesty, never overlook 
her appearance which charms the husband, observe propriety in 
the matter of dress and undress and forever hold over him a veil 
of mystery so that there shall always be a mystery regarding her- 
self. These are little things but it is the little things that make 
up the sum total of life. 
The instructions to the man are of equal importance if hap- 
piness is to result. He must be shown that although he is lord 
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he may have the privilege but should not demand, such as, the 
marriage rite. He must be shown that if he expects to retain her 
love he must at all times respect her modesty. He should not 
attempt to see her unless she clearly indicates her desire. He 
should never insist upon the sexual embrace, especially on the 
wedding night, but should win same by coaxing, caresses and 
loving attentions. He should be made to understand that a 
woman may refuse his requests many times even though she may 
desire the embrace, but by continuing his caresses he can win her 
consent. However, he must use his reason in grasping a situa- 
tion where she may have cause for non-compliance, in which 
case he must cease his attentions for the time being. 
Understanding that in the beginning of marriage there may 
be more suffering than pleasure for her and that she will bear 
pain merely because of the love she has for him. On this ac- 
count it is here where he must exercise the greatest care, since 
brute force will forever cause her to have nothing but loathing 
for him while gentleness will win her respect and bring him great 
love. He should be taught that the woman of his bosom is like 
all other women in most respects. There is one thing which all 
normal women desire and respect, and that is, admiration. 
There is no woman living who does not think that the man who 
professes to love her should also admire her form. If he cannot 
admire her form he is not normal and will regret this shortcom- 
ing, because sooner or later some one else may do what he neg- 
lects to do. 
Man must appreciate the fact that though the woman he 
marries knows little or nothing concerning the rights and privil- 
eges belonging to her or to him, one thing she does know, and 
that is the art of love. This is born in her. Intuitively she 
knows love, feels love and understands love. With her it is the 
base of all. If she is given love she will return by giving every - 
thing, grant every privilege desired, and sacrifice herself and her 
honor. She is love personified although often degraded; while 
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and and one other things. That is why the little attentions, the 
admiration, the caresses are so welcome to her and so highly ap- 
preciated. 
One source of sorrow and possible destruction to her love 
on her part can be traced to the fact that when she is in certain 
moods she may be erratic, may seem not to care and may say 
things she does not mean. If the man is wise he will ignore 
these moods and thereby earn her gratitude for his kind consid- 
eration. 
Man's life is his business. The most loving man in the 
world must look, through force of circumstances, at love as a side 
issue. This is not because his love is less deep and less true than 
hers, but because he is the protector of his home and the one who 
must supply the necessities of life for the family. Here he re- 
sembles the primitive man who often had to leave his wife and 
family for weeks at a time to secure the food for them. He did 
not leave them because he desired to do so but bcause necessity 
compelled him. Similarly the man of business must meet condi- 
tions of today and must center his whole mind and attention on 
the one object of success. Apparently he does not think of his 
wife, but deep in his consciousness there is an abiding love which 
is manifested by the fact that what he does is all for her sake. 
If at times he should appear to forget the law and make 
requests without the usual caresses, she should not hastily con- 
clude that his love has waned or accuse him of thinking more of 
his sex desires than of her love. This has led to many disasters. 
Woman's intuition is usually true and her intuitive powers will 
tell her whether he really does not care or whether it is simply an 
oversight of which men are so often guilty. Although it may be 
advisable for her to call his attention to his apparent carelessness 
she should be careful not to make accusations. 
It is a common complaint by men to their friends and often 
to their physicians that their wives generally choose the time of 
the marriage rite to accuse them of unfaithfulness and to find 
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and mental unbalancing. If there is a time in the life of a man 
when he desires peace and contentment it is during the love 
embrace; because it is during this period that the mind should be 
wholly free from all external and destructive thoughts and should 
be centered on some great desire in addition to the desire for love 
satisfaction. The woman who attempts to scold, or find fault 
during this sacred time is as sure to lose the love of her husband 
as that night follows day. 
We have no sympathy for the man who thinks he has a right 
to demand obedience from his wife regarding sexual matters, or 
who does not approach his wife with love but demands brute sat- 
isfaction. Such a man does not constitute a man and does not 
deserve the love of any woman. 
Without passion there can be no true love between the sexes, 
because passion is the base of love and love is the result of true 
passion. Granting this we emphatically state that this is no 
excuse for over indulgence of the passional nature. Love may be 
manifested without the embrace; and because a man caresses his 
wife daily is no plea that he should be allowed indulgence in 
the marriage rite every day. There is a time for all things. 
While there may be love and caresses whenever opportunity 
arises, the practice of the Rite should not become too frequent so 
as to bring weakness or injury to either man or woman. And 
above all the Rite should never be undertaken while there is any 
ill feeling or misunderstanding between the two, since it would 
result in poisoning both and engendering hate for each other. 
The practice of the Rite should be only as frequently as a feeling 
of bouyancy, hope and love toward all created things result. If 
there is a feeling that one would rather sleep than think of any- 
thing else, it is an indication of over indulgence, because he who 
loves the woman will be as desirous of embracing her afterwards 
as before. 
One of the first things that the newly married pair should 
learn is to control the passion if they desire their marriage to be 
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theory that a woman is usually passionless is wholly wrong, and 
if true is to be regretted. Generally the average woman is as 
passionate in her nature as is the average man, but in a different 
sense. The average man, who has become accustomed to the 
embrace, if denied beyond the usual time, is able to hold the re- 
lation with any woman other than his wife, even if he does not 
feel any love towards the woman. In other words, when he has 
the carnal desire he is able and willing to have relationship with 
a woman he does not love, although it is taken for granted he 
must not think ill of her or hate her. However, with a woman 
it is different. She may be free from indulgence in the sexual 
embrace for a time and yet not become aroused; and if she is the 
true type of woman no one can actually arouse the desire in her 
except the man she loves. 
It must not be concluded from this that a man, as a usual 
thing, if married and possessing a loving wife who grants him 
favors, will, if his wife cannot comply with his requests, seek 
satisfaction with other women whom he does not love. The aver- 
age man married to a woman who loves him and trusts him will 
deny himself almost anything in order to maintain his honor 
and to deserve the trust placed in him. Our statement has refer- 
ence to that large class of men who, while honorable in every 
sense and unmarried, seek the sexual embrace to satisfy the de- 
mands of their nature with women whom they do not love. 
The average woman will not do this. If there is no one 
whom she loves she will suppress her desires rather than accept 
attentions from any man whom she does not love. It may be 
stated as a general rule that, while the average, healthy and nor- 
mal woman, with the exception of the true blond, is as passionate 
as the average man, she accepts the sexual embrace not for 
the satisfaction to herself but because of the pleasure she gives 
to the one she loves. Her own consideration is secondary. It is 
therefore, plain that men and women are directly the opposite re- 
garding passional satisfaction. 
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instructions along these lines is apt to fall into error and make 
out of the marriage rite a habit that becomes destructive instead 
of Constructive. They must realize that marriage does not give 
them the right or privilege of indulging to their full satisfaction 
or satiation. No one has a right to this abuse and the marriage 
ceremony does not grant it. They should also understand that 
to undertake the marriage rite for pleasure or satisfaction only 
is to stamp their act as prostitution, because they are prostituting 
their creative energy for purposes never sanctioned by their 
Creator. While it is permitted to derive pleasure from the rite, 
there should be a deeper and more holy object in view. This 
may be for generation with love only as the base, or for regen- 
eration. 
It is a law in the creative realm that the more often the de- 
sire of the male is gratified the oftener will be bis desire for 
gratification. For this reason it is highly important for the 
young couple to bear this in mind and never to break this law. 
There should be a covenant between them that they should resort 
to the embrace but so often and that there should be purely love 
embraces the rest of the time. If this is practiced their self 
denial will be amply rewarded. 
In the process of regeneration there is no actual waste of 
vital force even though the act is completed. If embrace is had 
for any other reason than generation, there should be a full un- 
derstanding between them to concentrate on some holy or lofty 
ideal. They should harmonize as nearly as possible, and the 
crisis of both should take place at one time. The thought and 
the desire should be intensely held at the moment and it is well 
to draw up the breath at this time and to hold it during the crisis. 
If this is faithfully done the vital force in the semen will be ab- 
sorbed by the intense passion of the female generative organs 
and will electrify just as the electric current charges the bar of 
steel that has been prepared for a magnet, while by the man the 
thought and the breath will absorb the magnetic force in the 
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tire rite. In this there is no waste of vital force but an honest 
exchange which brings health, peace and happiness. 
He who does not desire to hold the woman in embrace after 
the completion of the rite does not truly love her and should not 
have congress with her. 
It has been falsely taught that congress between man and 
wife other than for generation balances that something in each 
which for want of a better name we call magnetism, and because 
of this they cease to love each other. 
There are few, including the married, who understand sex- 
ual laws. Consequently very few hold the embrace as it should 
be held. In most cases on his part it is purely for pleasure; 
while on hers, not having been aroused she is merely a passive 
agent, a means to the end of his gratification, never receiving any 
joy or good therefrom. Hence it is no wonder that she comes to 
hate and despise the act and to feel disgust towards him. This 
is because the embrace is hardly ever carried on in the divine and 
holy manner, therefore the reason why so much dissatisfaction 
is to be found in married life. 
Another law little understood is that no man has a right 
to have sex relationship with any woman unless he loves her 
deeply and sincerely enough to kiss and caress her nor must he 
attempt such enjoyment unless he can do so with love and seal 
the pact with a kiss at the time of the crisis and so end the Sacred 
Rite. A circle is complete when the two ends meet. Such is this 
embrace. 
The kiss, like the sexual embrace, has been much misun- 
derstood and proov-vdted, because it is as sacred in the sight of 
God as the embrace. Generally speaking, it has few meanings. 
It is either a symbol of true love, an emblem of affection or the 
badge of hypocricy. The kiss is sanctioned between those who 
love each other, between women who are good friends or between 
relatives. Any other is damnable and destructive, because the 
same magnetism which passes between the two during the sexual 
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undesirable it is in the case of those who dislike each other or 
even hate each other. In this respect women most frequently 
break the law. Who has not observed women kiss each other 
when known to be enemies ? Such is the famous Biblical kiss of 
Judas. 
One cause for the cooling of what was once intense love to 
mutual affection may be traced to the general practice of both 
sharing the same bed. The married should sleep in separate 
beds, and, if possible to arrange, in separate rooms, so that mod- 
esty and privacy may be respected. The freedom displayed in 
dressing and undressing is undesirable and destructive to the 
highest mutual love and respect. 
Those who live the married life thus far indicated will not 
be prudes, will not see anything in sex to be ashamed of and will 
not think it wrong to teach these laws. To them all that per- 
tains to it will be beautiful, holy, divine and a special blessing 
and privilege which a good God grants His children. But those 
who think of this for the gratification of sense and appetite only, 
who over-indulge and who never know a perfect union, those who 
condemn sex and those who teach the laws pertaining thereto, 
having prostituted, debased and debauched the generative power 
and so becoming abnormal, cannot see anything beautiful or 
divine in God's greatest creation. 
Those living the marital life should not become careless as 
to dress and appearance. Both should strive to please each 
other in this respect, after as before the wedding ceremony. Too 
often the woman becomes careless after the wedding day and this 
change reacts upon the husband by cooling his intensity of love 
for her. She becomes a different woman in his imagination. 
These are small things but in the long run make up the sum 
total of life. What proved to be the early fascination should and 
must continue to be the attracting power. 
On his part, too, appearance and neatness and address play 
equally an important part. To her he was a man in every re- 
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apparently too much trouble to him, but he must realize that to 
a woman love is everything. She cannot find any object in life 
but that it is part of love. 
Love is the sum total of her life, and he must never attempt 
to change her from this attitude. For this reason there can never 
be any settling down in her case. She expects the days of court- 
ship to continue after the wedding ceremony; those little favors, 
flowers, presents, pleasing speeches and little caresses. All these 
are part of her, and no matter how prosaic or practical life may 
be, no matter what sorrows may come, these attentions are still 
expected, comprising and making the foundation of her love for 
him. These attentions should be freely granted by him and 
not be considered an arduous task but simply a matter of gentle- 
manly consideration. 
The young wife, however, should bear this in mind, that 
with man the conditions differ; he draws a line of distinction 
between love, business and passion. Business is cold, calculat- 
ing and without emotion and foreign to a woman's nature. What- 
ever a woman does is based upon love or hate and that is why 
woman is rarely ready to forgive the fall of her own sex. She 
must remember that he can completely divorce passion and love, 
that he can have passion without love and that love in him cannot 
exist without passion. In her, except in rare cases, this is im- 
possible. Although passionate she will not allow her passion to 
be aroused unless she loves. 
Conclusively therefore, have we proven that they are dis- 
tinctly different from each other in their higher natures. To 
obtain happiness and avoid grievous mistakes which may lead to 
sorrow they must not misjudge each other by their own natures. 
For this reason Dr. P. B. Randolph, often called the world's 
greatest love philosopher, stated it as a law, that women will for- 
give a man if he so far forgets himself as to hold sexual embrace 
with another woman, but she will never forgive him if she learns 
that he has been caressing, kissing and loving another woman, 
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her existence. On the other hand, a man may forgive his wife 
for granting a love embrace and kiss to another man but he will 
never forgive her if he actually knew that she held sexual em- 
brace with him, because the base of his being and of his deepest 
love is founded in passion which he considers sacred and holy 
unto himself alone. 
Let the young man be taught another great truth which he 
should never forget under penalty of forever losing the respect 
of the woman who may have loved him, that he must never, in 
her presence, or in any place where she is liable to be informed 
of it, make any coarse, common or slighting comment on the sex 
or any part of woman. If she is a true-hearted woman, and we 
are considering such only, she expects, and rightly so, that he 
will be a gentleman and consider every part of her being as beau- 
tiful and desirable. If he ever attempts to make any slighting 
allusion, no matter from what motive, to her creative organs or 
powers, or to any other part of her body, especially her breasts, 
she will surely be so sorely wounded that it is a question whether 
she will ever be able to think well of him again. He must never 
show disrespect for what belongs to sex. 
A little woman who came to us for treatment for extreme 
nervousness will illustrate this. We knew well both the young 
man and woman before they were married. She was a jolly little 
girl, a good companion, carefree and lovable. He was more 
serious than she and apparently understood little of the small 
weaknesses which make women lovable. They were married, 
and apparently happy. After the birth of a child she lost some 
of her plumpness through nursing the baby. On a certain occa- 
sion, before the embrace, he made the error of remarking to her 
that he did not like the appearance of certain parts of her body 
as well as before the child came. This cut her to the heart, 
making her brood. She tried every means to increase the size 
of her breasts but to no avail. The continued brooding resulted 
in a nervous break which lasted years. After trying different 
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send her to different places for treatment, she came to us. Upon 
questioning her she confessed what he had told her. It took some 
time to convince her that a man liking a woman better one way 
than another had nothing whatever to do with his love for her; 
that love and like with a man were entirely distinct things; that 
he would like to see his wife well and strong; still if she were 
ill there would be no reason to doubt his love for her. After she 
became convinced of this she tried to forget her troubles and be- 
came the jolly little girl she used to be. Within two months she 
became entirely free from the nervous ailment from which she 
suffered seven years. 
All men should ever bear in mind the great law-that to 
woman true love is her entire existence, and all business, duty, 
and life itself have their foundation in love. She cannot draw a 
distinction. She either loves or she hates and all of life is judged 
under these two headings. THE BUREAU OF HUMAN WELFARE 
The need for a Bureau of Human Welfare is readily 
recognized when we fully comprehend that in America alone 
several hundred thousand children below the age of three (3) 
years die yearly, who might be saved through the means we are 
constantly advocating. 
In America alone hundreds of thousands of children are 
born annually who are physically, mentally and morally weak, 
many of whom are actually idiotic. In most cases the cause is 
to be found in the ignorance of the parents. If these parents 
had been taught the true laws governing sex and procreation, it 
would have been impossible for them, except in rare cases, to 
have given birth to weaklings and degenerates. 
Yearly more than five hundred thousand girls, as innocent 
as your daughter, Sir, become prostitutes and enter the house of 
shame, never to leave it until death kindly steps in. We main- 
tain this condition could be eliminated through the proper in- 
struction of men and women, boys and girls. 
More than one million men, women and children die each 
year in America from the preventable disease known as Tuber- 
culosis. There are several reasons for this fearful disease: 
1st. An incorrect diet. 2nd. Children cursed before birth be- 
cause parents are ignorant of the laws of sex, of diet and all other 
laws governing health. 
Because of the above reason as well as many others, the 
Bureau of Human Welfare is a greater necessity at the present 
time than it has ever been before. The conditions mentioned are 
worse today than they were during the war, because then the 162 
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minds of men and women, boys and girls, were centered on win- 
ning the war and on the world conditions rather than on personal 
affairs. 
The war being over, mind and nerves need relaxation, men 
and women are beginning to think of their likes and dislikes, of 
their desires, and a return to old conditions is inevitable, only 
they will be worse, because the tension has been so great that 
relaxation and forgetfulness will be sought in the old habits to 
greater intensity. 
When America entered the war, the Bureau of Human Wel- 
fare, under its former title of Rose Cross Aid, decided to devote 
its time to two lines of work especially: First, that which may 
be called Higher Race Development, which includes child better- 
ment, eugenics, sex hygiene, and kindred subjects. Second: 
Dietetics, food economy in relation to health, strength and vital 
power. 
These two subjects are of vast importance to a nation at 
war-and afterwards. The Conservation of healthy manhood 
and womanhood, and the consequent well-born children, is of as 
much consequence to a race as the conservation of food is to the 
winning of a war. 
The purposes of the Bureau of Human Welfare in the de- 
partment of Higher Race Development are far reaching. Out- 
lined briefly they include: The prevention and treatment of dis- 
ease of the sex nature; the elimination of sex perversions and 
degeneracy; prenatal influence; the preservation of sex purity in 
the young, the instruction of both parents and children in the 
laws and uses of sex: These five general divisions furnish im- 
mense opportunity for reconstruction work of infinite value to 
the race. 
The Bureau of Human Welfare takes up the subject of 
Dietetics in detail. It teaches an economy in expenditure of 
money, at the same time adding to the food value, through the 
arts of combination and substitution. The individual who fol- 
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duction of cost. This applied to the nation results in the saving 
of millions. 
The Bureau of Human Welfare will establish Centers, con- 
ducted by competent men and women, who are at the command 
of all in need of assistance and instructions. Both teachers and 
lecturers are provided to carry on the work in any town or city. 
Men and women, young and old, rich or poor, educated or 
ignorant, black or white, no matter in what state or condition, 
may appeal to us on any of these subjects and receive instruc- 
tions, advice and assistance. All such appeals are treated as 
sacredly confidential and attended to in detail. 
There never was a time when the information and instruc- 
tions that the Bureau of Human Welfare can give was more 
needed than the present. Mothers may write for instructions 
in matters of sex; for information that will benefit her children, 
or the coming child. She may consult us about herself, her re- 
lations with her husband, her family, and society. The Bureau 
of Human Welfare will teach the expectant mother what to do 
for herself, how to bring forth a normal, healthy child, how to 
pass through the ordeal of childbirth. She may place her prob- 
lems before the Bureau and receive the instruction she desires. 
Fathers may bring their own, or the perplexities of their 
families to the Bureau and be sure of finding a solution. Young 
men and women, ignorant of the demands of their nature, may 
write for help and information. 
A BASIS WHEREON TO BUILD 
The Bureau of Human Welfare contends that the Social 
Laws as taught by Moses have a firm foundation in absolute 
truth and if men would come to an understanding of these laws, 
and obey them, much of the sin, sickness, misery, degradation 
now prevalent would become a thing of the past. Something to 
be ashamed of, the mere fact that these undesirable conditions 
exist being a tacit admission of gross ignorance. 
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wipe away many of the disgraces with which civilization is now 
accursed. Up to the present time, all but the few could claim 
ignorance of the creative laws, but the facility whereby this 
knowledge is now obtainable will no longer permit any one to 
make this plea. All enlightened men and women must begin to 
seek instruction and through the knowledge gained avoid the 
many serious mistakes of the past. 
Our motto must be: "Begin with the youth." Many will 
assert this is impossible, that the young will not accept the truth 
regarding sex laws, even though it might save them. 
To this assertion we answer: Go back to the very fountain 
whence these great Laws came. Study carefully the laws given 
you by Moses concerning the sex purity, these, when obeyed, will 
teach you as they did the Israelites. They will save you as they 
saved God's children then, and we can save our people by 
Teaching Sex Laws as a Religion, 
teaching the young and old that Immortality, the Salvation of the 
Soul, is based upon obedience to the laws of God, as these laws 
concern and govern the creative organism and their functions. 
As you now teach your children that drunkenness damns 
the soul, so must you teach them that unnatural sex relationship, 
whether with wife or prostitute, damns the soul even more surely 
than drunkenness. 
It is an accepted adage that it is the prerogative of the child 
to be born right," then why not seek instruction which will teach 
you how your child may be properly conceived, correctly nurtured 
and rightly born? Such instructions are offered you, you may 
accept the privilege, and through this knowledge you can be the 
progenitor of children who will be an eternal blessing, instead of 
a disgrace. 
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH HELP MAY BE 
RECEIVED 
Working Members: All who remit ten cents in postage and 
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help or who may be interested in the work being done by the 
Bureau, will be enrolled as working members. They will re- 
ceive, from time to time, literature as published, which could not 
be had for ten times the amount if bought in the form of books, 
magazines etc. 
Beneficial Members: All who emoll and remit $1.00 per 
year will receive the magazine "Reconstruction" and other litera- 
ture of like nature when published. Beneficial members are 
allowed to apply to the Bureau for individual instructions for 
themselves or others of the family, on Dietetics in the elimination 
of disease, Social and Sexual Hygiene, Higher Race Develop- 
ment etc. without extra charge. 
Associate Members: All who enroll and remit a fee of 
$10.00 will be given text books, complete course of instructions 
as issued, training to enable them to teach under the Bureau, and 
all the privileges granted Beneficial Members. 
THE NEED OF TEACHERS 
It is estimated that in the United States more than 35,000,- 
000 people have discarded drug medication. Of these 35,000,000 
no less than 10,000,000 believe in a rational system of Dietetics 
for the elimination of disease. 
The average Dietetic Specialist charges from $25.00 to 
$100.00 or even more, for instructions. 
The Bureau and its teachers will do for the members exact- 
ly what the Dietetic Specialist does for his patient and there is 
no charge except the membership fee. 
NON-SECT ARIAN 
The Bureau is non-sectarian. It never questions an appli- 
cant concerning his church affiliation. It is immaterial whether 
he be Hebrew, Catholic or Protestant, all are equally welcome. 
We consider the work is for humanity and cannot recognize 
creed or color. 
LOYALTY 
The Bureau contends that all men should be loyal to the 
country, should believe in religion and affiliate with a church of 
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CONTRIBUTIONS 
The Bureau does not solicit funds to carry on its work, 
though it accepts free-will offerings from those who have been 
helped or who have faith in its propaganda. 
Address communications to 
BUREAU OF HUMAN WELFARE 
"Beverly Hall," 
Quakertown, Pa. 
APPALLING! UNBELIEVABLE! 
12,500,000 defective children in the 
United States of school age. 
A news item in the "North American" April 10, 1919, 
states: "Fifty per cent of the 25,000,000 boys and girls of school 
age in this country have physical defects and ailments which 
impede their normal development, according to the annual re- 
port of the executive committee of the national physical education 
service given out here today." And "A lack of proper physical 
education, such as play, athletics, work and gymnastics is attri- 
buted by the committee as the cause for the physical disability." 
THINK OF IT 
One half of the children in America defective. It is unbelievable 
unless one has given the subject careful consideration and in- 
vestigation. 
We believe the report is correct when it states one half of 
the children in America are defective as this agrees fully with 
our investigations. However, we do not for a moment admit 
that the cause rs merely a lack of proper physical education, play, 
and gymnastics, though these have a very im- 
pdrta'nt part in the development of children. We claim that the 
cause for this astonishing and appalling condition is found in 
Improper Diet and Poor Combination of Food and Ignorance of 
the Laws of Sex and Procreation. 
We also assert that more than fifty per cent of the adult 
inhabitants of the country are suffering from some weakness and 
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and that the ailments and defective condition of the children in 
the majority of cases are due to the same cause. 
DIETETICS 
We maintain that if the American people were taught Die- 
tetics-the selection and combination of foods for health and 
strength, rather than for taste, many of the weaknesses, ailments 
and diseases from which adults now suffer would become a thing 
of the past. Parents being strong and virile, their children would 
be healthy, strong and fully developed, provided they were born 
under wise and enlightened procreative laws. Being thus born 
and nurtured on wholesome food, correctly combined they would 
continue normal and free from the defects now damning millions 
of children. 
The Book "Dietetics" was written several years ago. It has 
received the highest praise from educators of International fame 
and a few days ago an order was received for 98 copies of it to 
be used by students attending one of the best known colleges of 
the middle West. 
When the book was first issued, a copy was mailed to the 
Rev. Russell H. Conwell, Founder of Temple University, Phila- 
delphia, and author of the famous lecture "Acres of Diamonds," 
which is said to have netted Temple University more than 
$8,000,000. 
After reading the book, the following letter was received by 
the author of it: 
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Office of the President 
November 22, 1917. 
Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer has just written and 
published a book on dietetics which takes first rank 
either as a text book or as a volume for general read- 
ing. Its statements of fact are clear and its conclusions 
convincing. He proves that physically we are what we 
eat, and explains fully why it is so. Any one who 
reads the book will be glad to commend it. 
Russell H. Conwell. 
CONTENTS 
Introductory. After fifteen years of experience the author 168 
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finds he has no reason to change his original fundamental 
theory. 
Vitamine. Vitamine is the base of life. If children are not 
given sufficient food containing vitamine weakness, unde- 
velopment and sickness results in spite of every other at- 
tention given the child. Health and strength is impossible 
without foods containing Vitamine. 
Diet. In this chapter is found the key to Dietetics as a Science, 
and though we claim it is a science, it is one all can under- 
stand. 
Vitality. Vitality is the base of Health, Happiness and Effici- 
ency. Vitality is possible only when Vitalizing foods form 
the foundation of the diet. 
Organic Cell Salts. These are the Organic Mineral Elements 
and are equally important with Vitamine. Without suffici- 
ent Organic Mineral Elements normal development is im- 
possible. 
Four Distinct Classes of Food. There are four classes of 
food to choose from. A normal amount of each must be 
consumed if there is to be health and strength. 
Laws of Digestion. These are not difficult to understand if 
one is willing to give a little study to it. 
True Foods. Many of the foods consumed are not really foods 
but are foreign substances which congest the system and 
cause weakness and disease. 
Food as Medicine. In the two Chapters on "Food as Medicine" 
will be found sufficient instruction for the maintainance 
of health and efficiency and the cure of many diseases. 
Proper Combinations of Food in Health and Disease. 
The instructions given are not based on theories but on 
actual experience extending over a period of seventeen years. 
Moreover, these instructions are daily being followed by 
us and our co-workers. 
The book is printed on a fine 80 lb. book paper, beautifully 
bound in silk cloth. Limited edition at $1.25. 
Address- 
BUREAU OF HUMAN WELFARE 
"Beverly Hall" 
Quakertown, Pa.