5.  ANIMAL PASSION.—­Commonsense teaches that children who are begotten in the heat of animal passion, are likely to be licentious when they grow up.  Many parents through excesses of eating and drinking, become inflamed with wine and strong drink.  They are sensualists, and consequently, morally diseased.  Now, if in such conditions men beget their children, who can affect surprise if they develop licentious tendencies?  Are not such parents largely to blame?  Are they not criminals in a high degree?  Have they not fouled their own nest, and transmitted to their children predisposition to moral evil?

6.  FAST YOUNG MEN.—­Many of our “fast young men” have been thus corrupted, even as the children of the intemperate are proved to have been.  Certainly no one can deny that many of our “well-bred” young men are little better than “high-class dogs” so lawless are they, and ready for the arena of licentiousness.

7.  THE PURE-MINDED WIFE.—­Happily, as tens of thousands of husbands can testify, the pure-minded wife and mother is not carried away, as men are liable to be, with the force of animal passion.  Were it not so, the tendencies to licentiousness in many sons would be stronger than they are.  In the vast majority of cases suggestion is never made except by the husband, and it is a matter of deepest gratitude and consideration, that the true wife may become a real helpmeet in restraining this desire in the husband.

8.  YOUNG WIFE AND CHILDREN.—­We often hear it stated that a young wife has her children quickly.  This cannot happen to the majority of women without injury to health and jeopardy to life.  The law which rendered it imperative for the land to lie fallow in order to rest and gain renewed strength, is only another illustration of the unity which pervades physical conditions everywhere.  It should be known that if a mother nurses her own babe, and the child is not weaned until it is nine or ten months old, the mother, except in rare cases, will not become enceinte again, though cohabitation with the husband takes place.

9.  SELFISH AND UNNATURAL CONDUCT.—­It is natural and rational that a mother should feed her own children; in the selfish and unnatural conduct of many mothers, who, to avoid the self-denial and patience which are required, hand the little one over to the wet-nurse, or to be brought up by hand, is found in many cases the cause and reason of the unnatural haste of child-bearing.  Mothers need to be taught that the laws of nature cannot be broken without penalty.  For every woman whose health has been weakened through nursing her child, a hundred have lost strength and health through marital excesses.  The haste of having children is the costly penalty which women pay for shirking the mother’s duty to the child.

10.  LAW OF GOD.—­So graciously has the law of God been arranged in regard to the mother’s strength, that, if it be obeyed, there will be, as a rule, an interval of at least from eighteen months to two years between the birth of one child and that of another.  Every married man should abstain during certain natural seasons.  In this periodical recurrance God has instituted to every husband the law of restraint, and insisted upon self-control.