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for the right kind of man, if her education as well as her fascinating beauty is not neglected.

But what are you leading to? Call a "nigger" beautiful? Precisely so.

Science knows no prejudice, is not biased; gives credit where credit is due.

Produce your white charmers, and compare them with thousands of these dark beauties, and let science determine the best equipped, the best fitted for maternity. That is the "rub," that is the paramount question.

Maternal fitness makes all girls charming, all women attractive to all men, without it none.

OFFSPRING ALONE CONSTITUTES TRUE MARRIAGE.-You say we are wrong, that mental ability, mental accomplishments, too, attract. So they do; but mental attraction alone knows no sex; is simply cool admiration in both men and women among themselves and in each other. Feminine qualities, maternal fitness in woman, alone can render her truly charming and magnetic to the opposite sex. Therefore it now follows that only maternal and paternal fitness should constitute true marriage. It is a natural law that only man disobeys. All animals thus fitted mate only, none others. All men and women not thus equipped cannot enter into true marriage, but only mere partnerships, which ought to be made solvent by the parties con

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cerned, should they wish to permanently separate at any time, like any other partnership.

When offspring alone constitutes true marriage, no illegitimate children will be born, and every man will be compelled to stick to his affinity, of whatever color or race. This, as we have just intimated, is in harmony with the procreative law, the highest and noblest act of Nature; and we believe that no people or country can reach its highest state of civilization before they heed this, the highest of all God's command

ments.

Talk about the possibility of making the marriage and divorce laws of this country uniform. There is no ground upon which such uniformity is possible, save that just stated. When offspring alone constitutes true marriage, and all other unions are recognized by law as mere partnerships, this important question will soon settle itself rightly.

Take heed, all who have the best interest of mankind at heart. Let not this generation pass away before public sentiment demands this rational change in our marriage relations.

We have spoken of this here, especially for the benefit of the colored women of the South. We feel as though we would like to plead for them in this regard, for we know only too well what vast benefit they would derive from the inaug

uration of such marriage reform. And would it not also prove equally beneficial to all classes of whites? The present marriage and divorce system of our civilization is a mortal stain that ought to be eradicated.

CHAPTER XVII

BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATED

THE MATING OF SUPERIOR DISSIMILARITIES.-Mrs. Dr. Summer had a knowledge of scientific mating, and abhorred the vulgar sentiment prevalent among a certain degraded populace in this country, concerning the eligibility of the upper class of colored people. She, like other women of advanced ideas and large mental capacity, believed that the woman who can leave strong, well developed children, mentally and physically, by affiliating with a race of marked dissimilarities, bestows upon mankind the highest and noblest gift. She had a taste for the dark, vital, powerful masculinity. She could have found one of such characteristics among the whites, but repudiated all prejudice and decided in favor of a colored gentleman, Mr. Summer, who attended school in her native town in the North. She met him, was attracted, and found that she had not only met her intellectual equal, but also an ideal father of her future children, although they would be tinged with dark blood. Prohibit such a splendid union? Nonsense. Behold! what hath God wrought? Her children, to be sure, are

dark-skinned, curly-headed, pretty little mischiefs. They are remarkably fine; they will be the progenitors of other fine people of another,

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