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 there ought to be; more practical celibates than the world has any use for. Bachelors are proud of their state; maidens mourn over theirs; husbands fret and run after strange faces; not a few wives are sullen, heedless, believe in divorce, and often wish themselves dead; and all because none of them understand what love is, or know how to properly cultivate it. This I have endeavored to teach in "Love and its Hidden History," in all points save one or two, which are herein undertaken to be covered. Time nor space allowed me to do so previously, save in vague general terms, and the hiatus or omissions, namely, the practical application of the great magnetic law, the culture of special loves, the means of ennobling the female character, and heightening her charms, is herein given in terms easily understood.

My mental researches into the subject-matter of these books have been extensive and long continued. The results are therein condensed, and I have both copied the remarks of others, and availed myself of several very valuable suggestions encountered during my reading up of the subject; the whole with the intent to place the utmost possible amount of information before my patrons in the briefest possible space. At present love is a warfare against the softer sex. Prostitution abounds. Why? Because woman fails to take due advantage of her power; and the consequence is that the terrible syphilitic scourge is again ravaging the world even worse than it did in the sixteenth century. It is God's method of punishing mankind for substituting gross lust for pure human love; for if a man does not love a woman, he has no right to her embraces, for such embraces are murder to one and suicide for the other! And the terrible scourge of syphilis pervades the very marrow of the people of the so-called civilization of to-clay as a result; but then it passes under the milder name of scrofula!

Running parallel with that dread contagion is the relaxed muscular and nervous systems of the female civilizee, evinced by the terrible catalogue of vaginal and uterine diseases. True, both man and woman find relief and present cure for these morbid states in the protozonic remedials; but even protozone itself is powerless to give new constitutions to the race, or render it proof against a multitude of diseases. Nothing but pure and true love