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Rh matrimony to live together when it is an actual sin against the higher laws of life, when the deteriorating effects, physical and mental, are as bad as if leading a fast life with the lowest of human creatures. Marriage, if unhappy, depreciates the powers, mental, physical and moral, and one had a thousand times better remain single all through life than to contract such an unsatisfactory union. It will take away all hope, all ambition, everything that makes life worth living. It will drag its victims down the furthest extremes of misery and despair, down to the lowest depths of human depravity. The noblest character that ever breathed could not resist the baneful influence of this condition of legalized prostitution. For what else can the enforced relations of a loveless marriage be called? When no love exists in this relation, there remains only the lowest, the most bestial passions. If the indulgence in these desires is not prostitution, will some one please define it?

Marry a woman in possession of a vigorous, wholesome, well-shaped body. Avoid