Chapter VI - Marriage
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Giving drugs to infants, noticing every symptom of
Giving drugs to infants, noticing every symptom of
flatulency, or constantly directing your mind to them,
laden with beliefs of disease, laws of health, sickness,
and death, conveys your mental image to their bodies
and stamps it there, making it probable at any time to
be reproduced in the disease you fear. Your child can
have worms if you say so, or whatever fear the mind
holds, relative to that body; it is thus you lay the foun-
dation of disease and death, and educate your child into
discord and out of harmony. The entire education of
children should be only such as will form habits of
obedience to moral and spiritual law; there is no phys-
ical law to be consulted.
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Taking less thought "what ye shall eat or what ye
Taking less thought "what ye shall eat or what ye
shall drink," will do much more than you are aware of
for the health of rising generations. Children should
be allowed to remain children in knowledge, and be-
come men and women through the understanding of their
spiritual being. We should not think for a moment a
law of matter outside of ourselves can harm our babe,
for it cannot. Intelligence outside of matter, that forms
the bud and blossom will regulate the body, even as it
clothes the lily, if we do not interfere by some belief.
The higher nature of man is not governed by the lower;
this would annul the order of Wisdom; the false views
we entertain of being, hide the eternal harmony and
produce the ills of which we complain. Because the
belief of intelligent matter is accepted, and the opposite
science of mind rejected, shall we submit it is true, or
that the so-called laws of sense are superior to laws of
Soul? You would never conclude a flannel is better to
ward off pulmonary disease than the Intelligence that
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forms the body, if you understood the science of being.
forms the body, if you understood the science of being.
Man is the offspring of Spirit; the beautiful, good and
pure are his ancestors; his origin is not brute instinct,
nor does he pass through material conditions up to man.
Spirit is his primitive and ultimate being, and God his
Father.
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The rights of woman are discussed on grounds that
The rights of woman are discussed on grounds that
seem to us not the most important. Law establishes
a very unnatural difference between the rights of the
two sexes; but science furnishes no precedent for such
injustice, and civilization brings, in some measure, its
mitigation, therefore it is a marvel that society should
accord her less than either. Our laws are not impartial,
to say the least, relative to the person, property, and
parental claims of the two sexes; and if the elective
enfranchisement of woman would remedy this evil with-
out incurring difficulties of greater magnitude, we hope
it will be effected. A very tenable means at present,
is to improve society in general, and achieve a nobler
manhood to frame our laws. If a dissolute husband
deserts his wife, it should not follow that the wronged
and perchance impoverished woman cannot collect her
own wages, or enter into agreements, hold real estate,
deposit funds, or surely claim her own offspring free
from his right of interference. A want of reciprocity
in society is a great want that the selfishness of the
world has occasioned. Our forefathers exercised their
faith in the direction St. James taught, "To visit the
fatherless and widows, and keep yourself unspotted
from the world "; but ostentation, the master of cere-
monies, and stereotyped belief have ruled out primitive
Christianity, so that when a man would lend a helping