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Love and Parentage, applied to the improvement of offspring, etc

"Early impressions are indellible, are all powerful. And the earlier, the more so. Yet how few carry this principle back to Parentage, its first, and most eventful application--to the influences, on offspring, of the various conditions of parents at the time the former receive being and constitution from the latter. To develop those laws which govern this department of nature, and analyze its facts--to show what parental conditions, physical and mental, will stamp the most favorable impress on the primitive organization, health, talents, virtue, &c, of yet uncreated immortals, and what must necessarily entail physical diseases, mental maladies, and vicious predispositions, constitute our subject matter. It consequently involves, not their animal life and death merely, but also their mental life and spiritual being; and is therefore among the most momentous subjects which can possibly engross human attention; as well as one which parents must understand in order to confer on offspring the highest physical, intellectual, and moral endowments and capabilities in the power of parentage to bestow. These exalted considerations dictated this work; and if it enables a few parents only to endow their children, by nature, with a strong and healthy physical, a high mental, and a powerful intellectual constitution, Infinitude alone can measure the good that will result therefrom, not merely to these children themselves, but also to their descendants for many generations to come. This book also has a supplement, entitled "Evils and Remedy of excessive and perverted Amativeness, including advice and warning to the married and the young," matter intimately related to this volume, and originally designed to accompany it"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

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