Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Maternity: or, The bearing and nursing of children : Including female education and beauty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    with satanic predispositions ; and, when giv wn, flay them alive, in vain attempts to beat out of them, by the crue! lash, what your own selves burnt into their inner na- tures in embryo; but ye who are true to your mater nal relations, will pause—will pray for light, and eager- ly clasp to your maternal bosom, whatever will enable vou to stamp a higher and ho.ier impress upon your prospective little ones. Oh, I do admire the motherly in woman—the love she bears to her darling infant! Ev- ery thing which appertains to this subject, sweeps the most powerful chord of woman's soul s- 222 with, to hei, the most thrilling of all notes. Woman, married and single, I know I shall have your eyes, ears, and in- most souls. Nothing else do you equally destre to learn. Nothing else compares with this in intrin- sic INTEREST, OR IN ITS BEARING ON HUMAN DESTINY. Woman, a new era is dawning on our race. The American and European revolutions are no trifles. They are the harbingers of the millennium. As Christ came out of the expected channel, so will the future day glory. Republicanism is its usher—its mother. As republican- ism here, in a single generation, hurled those old thrones to the ground, and is sweeping the entire feudal order of things, with the besom of destruction, in one genera- tion, it will, in the next, completely renovate and regen- erate society, purge it of all existing evils, political, civil, and religious, and prepare our race for a great advance—for a mighty ascent toward heaven. And what we now want is, a correspondingly higher order OF HUMAN BEINGS, TO ENTER UPON THIS PROSPECTIVE glory. And you must produce them. Oh, what chil- dren you could bear, if you knew just how to carry them ! InconceivaUy more powerful and perfect than 2*