Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIV. Wise Begetting. I quote from a little book, which should be familiar to all, a translation of part of the great Indian epic, the Mahabharata. This book is called The Lord's Song, or Song Celestial, and is a book of devotion and profound philosophy. "The elements, the conscious life, the mind, The unseen vital force, the nine strange gates Of the body, and the five domains of sense; Desire, dislike, pleasure and pain, and thought Deep-woven, and persistency of being; These all are wrought on matter by the soul!" I do not know that we could put in so few words any clearer or more complete statement of the potential of each human being, and this is especially pertinent at this particular point in our study of Eugenics. If it is so certainly possible for the soul to so impress matter, to work upon it such wonderful results, what are the limits of the possibilities of father-mother who consciously and intentionally set about the building of a body for the indwelling of a divine spirit? With that wonderful possibility before us we degrade our power to the most inconsequent and frivolous and even debasing uses, or if not that, we simply approach the matter of procreation as a necessary incident to our physical living and let its results come by mere chance without our design or intention. It is not thus that the soul works, and yet so far away have we journeyed from the real purpose of life, the real shrine of the spirit, that one who suggests that the souls of man and woman should enter earnestly into the matter of procreation, is apt to be considered a little less than a lunatic and certainly a visionary dreamer in the minds of men. Yet in our daily experiences with ourselves, as we begin to study our own reality, we find day by...
