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CHAPTER XII.

But so long as male brutes and beasts pursue the force system in sexual relation, and not wait until invited by female brutes and beasts, they can never rise to a higher condition; for, while they so degrade the companion in their most intense nerve association, that associate gives back to them enough of the degradation of force in attempted resistance, to keep the males down to nearly or quite the same level with the females, and often below them.

It is an insult to the higher types of brutes to compare them sexually with average men, for there are few in the whole animal kingdom that have as

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frequent and excessive sexual relations as do men. Among the animal exceptions are sheep, and but for such relationship being limited to a short season, and entire rest the most part of the year, they would not long survive. Sheep-growers have found that 5,000 ewes have conceived in one such season from a single male. It is not surprising that sheep should be so wanting in intelligence when all of their vitality is expended in sexual relations, for the losses through this source are losses to the brain! The same elements that repair the wastes of the one are requisite for the other; and hence it follows that those who have the most power in either direction have the power to concentrate the greater part of such power to either the purely intellectual or to the sexual.

Habits of thought and habits of life are magistrates, and the reasoner will at once see how important it is in youth and young manhood to cultivate the intellectual and higher faculties, and let the magistracy be of an ennobling nature.

But to return. It is not a fact that in the animal kingdom the males are all tyrants and take the initiative steps in sex relations, for, where they are living in a natural condition, the relations of the highest types of animals are mutual, called forth by the female. When the males assume rights of force and females resist, and hence the quarrels. It is said no other cause of quarrels are known to exist between

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male and female animals. The supreme right of selfhood asserts itself even in animal motherhood abilities, and resists invasion upon its rights --feebly, perhaps, but resists.

The very desire for the copulative relation is one for the result of the relation --the offsprings; and yet the love itself is often as much in embryo as the offspring itself; so little is the subject understood, because so little thought upon. And yet no man or woman can love another truly without a love for the future offspring that the relation of husband and wife is to produce. There is something wanting in pure love devotion if that want and love of posterity is not felt, even if not expressed. The marriage relation from the first should and would be one of no false delicacy, but as a pure relation if both men and women were pure and true to themselves before marriage, reserving their emotions for the one who was to be the partner of all joys and sorrows through the dim vista of middle life and old age. Whatever else influences the youth of both sexes, neither sex should ever swerve from the one fixed purpose to love and cherish the future husband or wife, and never be guilty of act or deed that would destroy or lessen the confidence in sexual purity. The wellbeing and complete confidence and happiness of the marriage relation demands equal purity, and such demand cannot be disregarded with impunity. Cu-

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mulative wrongs before marriage tell the tale after marriage--perhaps not audibly, but tell it just as plainly to husband or wife. To illustrate, we see, feel, act, smell, taste and hear all through the nerves. All these modes of communication are double, except the mouth from which we send forth speech; and when that refuses to tell the truth there is no power to stop the little tell-tale nerves. And so when every energy of the whole system is concentrated through the most highly sensitive ganglion of nerves, the life story is told in the ears of the nerves they meet through the agency of the wonderful nervo-magnetic fluid; and , although the power to fully comprehend just what the life of the other has been may not be possesses by all, yet a sufficient comprehensive power will be experienced to fully insure perfect confidence or to convince of deception, and that of a nature that there is an object in the deceiver concealing forever.

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or even of coaxing. Such is the construction of the nerves of the vagina, that when they are not in a condition to bear friction, they are morbidly sensative(sic), and if compelled to endure it, either by stronger physical power, or by persuasion, woman feels a repulsion to man through the shock to the sensitive nerves, and just as clearly as though he had struck her in anger. When man uses force to compel against the desire of woman, even if she is perfectly healthy, a poison is sent forth from the walls of the vagina that injures his whole system, and shortens his days. So great is this poison that it sometimes produces an elongation of the urethra, causing intense pain, and has been thought by those not understanding the cause to be a cancerous growth. Some are able to walk about when this afflicted, but months elapse before restoration is possible.

The poison that produces this result, is an abnormal forcing of the natural secretions of the vagina, that are farther poisoned by the stinging nerves of the vagina that act on the nerves of the penis when in the highest and most susceptible condition possible to any part of the system, and when beyond his power to resist the influences that are sent with more than lightening speed all through his whole nerve system. It is in this way that the "copper blowing" is accomplished in England.

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The angry wife holds a copper penny in her mouth and when the orgasm is perfected by the infamous husband who forces her to yield to him; she blows with nearly closed mouth and poisons him to death. These two kinds of poisoning can be readily understood when we realize that the poison of a snake is harmless, unless the snake is angry and throws its venom into an otherwise harmless secretion, (as its only means of defense.) Women unconsciously use the first poison spoken of as their only means of defence(sic) against repetitions of tyranny, and in aggravated cases, have used the "copper blowing" as a perpetual relief form a tyranny worse than death.

Nothing in life more aggravates and angers women than any advantage taken of the sexual relation, but men who complain of unappreciative and cross wives are generally utterly ignorant of the cause of the same, and often out of real spite to punish them for something, compel them to submit to the sexual relation, when they do not dare to strike them for fear of law finding the marks.

Men see that these marital rapes quiet their wives for a time through fear of repetition, not fully understanding that they very quiet is a debility that will effect themselves as soon as a repetition is resorted to, and as soon as nature has struggled sufficiently to assert her right of individuality in woman, she feels the same anger so intensified that she resolves to kill her

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tormentor as a sure means of getting rid of a vile man that torments outside of the redress of common law.

But if these men do not pay for such conduct by losing their lives, they pay dearly for such fiendish cruelty in their old years, by having helpless and loveless wives who lose all confidence in them and all interest in anything that relates to their comfort.

The same unhappy feelings and unrest of soul that they caused their wives, is taken back upon themselves by the very relationship that gives little else to such men than a fiendish gratification that never soothes and charms, but instead, exhausts and leaves about as pleasant emotions as the conquest of killing a snake. And the wife instead of being left tenderly as wives expect and have a right to expect to be, they are left with about the same emotions of indifference as a dead snake would be left, or as a savage leaves a white woman after his captive raping of a woman who has been an hour in his possession, too frightene3d to have the power to even attempt a hopeless resistance.

And yet with this terrible truthful picture before us, with the mass of men feeling that they have a right to demand of wives and compel obedience in sexual relations, we look upon men with a charity that only one who has gone into the metaphysics of social life is capable. For no woman has enlightened them upon the subject of real causes, and un

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mistakable effects, and no man has had the facilities to trace effect to cause and cause to effect as we have had, and no woman, save a professional one, could delve into social life with a full comprehension of causes and remedies.

The whole question of the essential part is settled by woman always having supreme control of her person, as regards an invasion by men.

The sexual relation should be for posterity, and as soon as this is accomplished, there should be no other relation until another child is desired. No woman properly balanced and with perfectly healthy sexual organs has a desire for such relationship, and if she submits to the same, the Language of the Nerves is such that the child in embryo is so taught sensuality that the coming man or woman is affected for life with such antenatal influences. The prospective mother begins to hate the embryonic child, as her maternal love is all clouded or destroyed by sensuality, and she begins to devise ways and means to destroy, instead of cherishing the little unseen. It matters little whether woman is a willing or unwilling victim of sensuality, whether as a wife or a promiscuous mistress, the love of posterity is destroyed, and the woman who fails to rid herself of her unwelcome charge, brings into existence a sensualist, a thief, a robber, a hermaphrodite, or at best an inharmonious specimen of humanity, that hates its parents

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for being compelled to have such an unwelcome existence. All through the period of its embryonic life, the Language of the Nerves is constantly taught, and the sentiments pervade every cell of the poor little piece of infantile helplessness.

The truer one is to self, (other things being equal,) the deeper and grander the thoughts. Who can tell to what depths of unknown science the human mind is capable of evoluting, if the nervo-magnetic powers are not injured in utero, or by themselves in conscious existence. What grandeur of comprehension of the eternal principles of brain power the evolution of thought shall yet give to the world, depends on pure manhood and pure womanhood to demonstrate.

It is delorable, that many of the deepest minds, the most metaphysical reasoners, the clearest logicians, the grandest scientists and the purest moralists among women, must look in vain for their equals in all these regards, and die without leaving to the world specimens of humanity that shall be superior to themselves and capable of delving into the n and sublimities that are now beyond conscious possibilities.

If through the evolution of our thoughts, as contained in this little volume, the women of the future, on both sides of the great waters, shall have better conditions, we shall feel that our earth life has been one of noble effort, that no amount of contumely from the drgraded can rob of pure satisfaction.