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 special reasons, easily discernible, provocative of rapidly reached and quickly ended, and very imperfect satisfaction. Deep disappointment settles over the home; the seeds of permanent unhappiness are sown, and take deep root, mutual hopes and longings are dashed to earth, crushed out, and one or both are often led to dangerous experiments with others, in the vain hope of actualizing the prophecy of bliss implanted by Heaven in both their constitutions.

Scientifically, the cause of all this is, that by manipulation the nervous centres have been changed, and mechanical action and pressure have been substituted for chemical and magnetic agencies, which, under healthful conditions, result from the inter-commingling of the acid and alkaline principles involved, pertaining to common human nature, and quickened and intensified by the mutual mental and spiritual affections of the wedded twain, under which conditions satisfaction, health, and strength result, but otherwise nothing but disgust and horror can follow. Says the lady, in a paper now before me: " The philosopher's stone is found. Long have men sought to find the right road to happiness. While reading the appendix to that grand book, 'After Death, or Disembodied Man,' I was struck with the remarks concerning the sin against the Holy Ghost. A sin against woman is really against the universal motherhood. The subject is delicate, but people must learn if the race is to be perpetuated in health of body and wealth of mind." And she says truly.

When a man has lost blood, till he is almost gone, it is possible to restore him by transfusing the blood of another into the sick man's veins. This has been done often, but generally one sex has supplied blood to its opposite, in which case there has sprung up a strangely fervent love between the two, always, thus proving what I contend for, that love depends upon magnetic, electric, and chemical conditions, to an extent little dreamed of by either the people or their teachers. The same principle is seen in other forms of transfusion. No white or Indian woman who first bears a child to a negro father can ever afterward give birth to a purely white or Indian child, even though the father of the second child be of pure lineage; for the reason that the essence of the first man has perpetuated itself in his child, and the transfusion of blood between the mother and her babe becomes perfect long before it is born; and the