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clear to all readers that the loss of stamina, if any in the Negro race, is not due to the amalgamation of it with a dissimilar one, but to the evil causes which follow in the wake of it. We have just seen that "changing conditions change characters." The fact that marvelous material improvements and multiplications of wealth have been wrought by industry in the past decade, did not, in itself, produce the insatiable cravings of an abnormal nature; but the changed condition wrought an untried state among these whites, and changing conditions among the colored, of whatever nature, produces like results. Rapid changes in environments among people of every race and age have produced abnormal characters for a time, being thus born. In some instances whole nations have gone down, who failed to regain their equilibrium before national corruption ensued. And so if Professor McKeever will go down to the bottom, the very source of delinquency in his students, he will invariably find that unnatural, improper sex-amalgamation, is the first cause of all the Thaw characteristics and delinquency in the wide world. How else could two children of the same parents, reared in exactly the same environments, differ so widely that one may be wholly respectable, industrious, energetic-even a preacher of the Gospel-while the other is a black sheep, a

veritable Thaw character, or like a Thaw victim? Like produces like. This is an unchangable natural law, and no parents can cheat or defraud nature. One child born in a harmonious love-state, and another under a reversed con

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dition, cannot be alike; and no training in the home, or any other kind of training, can make them alike. We, of course, believe in giving all children a thorough home-training, and especially in harmony with phrenological science, if it were possible; but we maintain that a child

rightly born is already trained at birth, and needs only a little additional cultivation and care, like a vigorous plant, to make it thrive and mature beautifully. We believe in the method of child culture experiments Professor McKeever advocates or suggests; and we are now convinced that it would do a vast amount of good in the improvement of the human race; but we also believe that the source, the first cause, the wrong birth, should especially receive the attention of our government; and this evil should be eliminated by it as far as possible, among both white and colored, by the scientific methods we advocate, and by a thorough educational campaign, such as Professor McKeever suggests.

A MOTHER IS THE PRE-NATAL KINDERGARTEN TEACHER.-But this is terrible!

Let the government teach us how to conceive and bear better children? Why not?

Does it not teach us how to improve our stock, our farm product and our soil; and are our own offspring of less importance than our farms and stock? Should not self-improvement, or the betterment of mankind, be our highest aim in life? We have already touched upon this subject. We will add that the right conception and birth of a child, of whatever color, overshadows and outweighs all other reforms put together; and that

the government has not given the races within our borders the privilege of attaining a scientific knowledge of this subject, in this age of marvelous achievement, is a moral outrage to the masses of people of our great civilization. When every conceivable kind of improvement is contemplated and executed, why not this? Would not the people pay for it and the country be benefitted thereby?

A mother should not only be in a quiet, happy mood during pregnancy, but her mind should be occupied with useful, studious and delightful thoughts; and her hands with such labor as may be congenial to her, and of sufficient importance to occupy her entire attention when thus employed. She is Nature's kindergarten teacher of the embryo and child unborn—the making of a man. What a solemn trust hath God conferred upon you? O, mother of the human family! Violate this sacred trust, and the verdict-guilty

-is written upon your own flesh and blood, your own darling babe, and naught on earth has power to erase that sin which you taught it, which you committed, while it was alone with you in the sanctuary of your soul. The evil thus transmitted from mother to child is monstrous!-terrible to contemplate-it baffles human understanding. Yet, how little is being done to counterbalance the evil thus wrought?

Prospective mothers, do you take a leap into the dark as regards the character of your own future child? You need not. You can, if you will, know the character, the future profession, trade or occupation, etc., of your unborn child. You can predict its future career if you will. You can say with positive knowledge: "This my child, I have caused to be born thus, and its life-work will be that; the other one I have caused to be born thus, and its life-work and character will be like this," etc.

But, how?

By your own effort. You can mould the future character of your child like a potter his clay, if you will it. But you must positively will it. The author has made hundreds of observations which fully confirm this fact; and others who have investigated along this line have come to like conclusions. To illustrate, we will give but one case which will convey to you the importance and truthfulness of our statement, especially if we assure you that it is but a common occurrence we have met with, among both white and colored, in our many years of observations: The first child, a boy of this case, was more like its father than its mother, and not superior to either. The next, a girl, born under nearly the same conditions, was again more like him than her. The third, again a boy, was unlike the

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