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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ion, as it also is to this day, under certain circum-stances, by our Boards of Foreign Missions. In a state of civilization like ours, some legai measures for the regulationof the intercourse of the sexes are necessary for the maintenance of peaceand good order, and to insure the support of child-bearing women, and theproducts of their womb, at the age of helplessness. But every libertyshould exist not inconsistent with this, and the moral and physical health THE REMEDY. 771 of the individual. A woman should not be allowed, if there can be createdany power to restrain her, to cohabit with men for money or its equivalent.It is a direct violation of moral and physical law. It degrades, and in timedestroys her moral instincts, and the habitual and excessive use of hersexual organs for such an unnatural purpose, generates and disseminatesloathsome diseases. But why, in prescribing marriage, should one systembe forced upon such a variety of people, any more than one religion? The Fig. 172.
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CLOTIIE9 OF ONE SIZE AND PATTERN FOR THE MILLION. majority of mankind believe b one God, but with this one faith there areProtestant and Catholic Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, etc. There aremillions of people who accept Jesus Christ as the Divine Son of God andthe Saviour of mankind. Accepting this faith, but materially differing increed, are Episcopalians, Presbyterians. Baptists, Disciples, Methodists,Catholics, Universalists, etc. All maDkind. with the exception of a fewascetics, must, in view of physiological teaching, acknowledge the necessity 772 THE REMEDY. of sexual association for the health and happiness of the race; but does itfollow that all should be compelled to accept one system for the regulationof this association? Suppose for a moment a large factory should beestablished at the seat of government to make clothing for all the people ofboth sexes in the United States, and that one pattern be provided fromwhich all these clothes shall be made. How do you suppose the ga

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