MATRIMO NY MINUS M A T E RNIT Y N H . SE! TO M . NEW Y ORK THE DEVIN - ADAIR COMPANY BY CO PY RIGH T, 1992, - THE D EVI N AD A I R CO . - b Th e D ev in A dair Co . A ll Rights R e serve d y Press of i tl e 6: I v e s Com an J. J. L t p y A New York. U. S . PREFACE I N ancient Egypt the Apis bull was fanned with a feather ; to-da y hi s stately brother is knocked down with a sledge . J ob skin hi s , to grow a velvety , raked slimy pelt with a potsherd . The surgeon ’s kni fe explores the anat omy o f man and destroys the haunts of u h ni u sk lking life , w ile the pen of ge s , di u pped in the ink of fact , lifts the co nter in pane from the bed of s . Social laxity has never been more ram at pant than the present day, and the cod dl in g methods n ow in vogue will never starch the moral fiber of man . In the following pages the reader will see that the steed of thought swings along u hi u the h man ghway, check free , po nding with his steel- rimmed hoofs the pagan methods that have outlived the Christ u u . ‘ n mbered cent ries vi PREFACE u m It is so ght to environ the home , fa ily, and fireside with precepts that will cleanse the body and la cquer the soul against the ur f in b rowing power o s . Where tear gas is used the subject in u f the j dgment o the writer merits it . No brief is held for any creed, and every man is accepted as a brother . With the theology or organized beliefs of men the following pages do not deal , nor is the domain of techn i cal science en t e re d. ’ While standing on the summit of man s activities and casting hi s eyes across the world, a lawyer saw the moral dreariness of the children of God and the contempt law il dr for among the ch en of men , hence set out to lash the money changers our from social temples , and the seven l our M devi s from agdalens . Shoul d any reader behold himself in ir of u —or z the m ror tho ght, recogni e any ’ of his sins in the inventory of man s cu iditie s is fl p , it hoped that he will not ame but il l into a passion, w swallow it as he u n is all wo ld physic, o the theory that it PREFACE vii hi s u intended for good . Like B ddha , let him reflect that if he meet a cripple in his u travels , there is time to become like nto him u ; that if he sees a cancero s face , let him shudder at the thought that he may not be immune ; and that if he beholds a him decaying corpse by the roadside , let — “ remember that the paths of glory lead but to the grave . CO N T EN T S EUGENY II MATRIM ONY I I I MATING I V MATRIM ONIAL BUREAU MYS TERIES or CONCEPTION AND GE STATION CONTROL or O FFS PRING STERILIZATION I NTELLECTUALS GENERALLY UNTEETILE SOCIETY SHRINKING PROGENY E Y E O PENING AT PUBERTY DIVORCE MAT RIMO NY MINUS MATERNITY CHAPTER I EUGENY I N lighting up the burrows of the v er min ou the family tree and in locating stains on the social linen of this day and — generation in the words of Garrison : u un I will be as harsh as Tr th, and as u compromising as Justice . On this s bj ect or or I do not wish to think , speak , write ! with moderation . No No ! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm ; tell h im to moderately rescue hi s wife from the hands of the ravisher ; tell the mother t o gradually extricate her babe from the fire into whi ch it has fallen — but urge me not to use moderation in a u co rse like the present . I am in earnest 2 Mat rimon y Min us Mate rn ity — — I will not equivocate I will not excuse — — I will not retreat a single inch an d I ll f i wi be heard . The apathy o the people s enough to make any statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of ” the dead . It may be that the advocates of eugenics and sexual precociousness are unconscious hi wors pers at the shrine of Pandora . M - l ual any well meaning , intel ect people , u of fl d ring all the ages , by attery, desire of or for praise , hope renown temporal advancement ; together with many honest seekers of truth with the betterment of u ui man at heart , have la nched their inq si t ori al barks upon moral seas of unknown hs al i dept , conce ing monsters wh ch have arisen without warning and strewn their wakes with wreckage . Havelock Ellis says By “ Eugenics is meant the scientific study of all the agencies by whi ch the h u man fl ort race may be improved , and the e to give practical effect to those agencies by cons cious and deliberate action in fa f vor o better breeding . E ug en y 3 It has been settled that animal s and vegetation can be improved by the gui d ance o f man . Such interference is f u known to us as the science o e genics . B ut when the sexual progressives under take the application of the barn-yard rules to man, they are confronted with their u of l eq als, and since the laws civi ization accord to men and women alike security in u u l their n ptial selections, sex a scientists , u nwittingly in the service of the devil , base their hope for aid upon public Opin ion agitated to the point of statutory enactments . It must be conceded that it is a fascin at u ing s bj ect even to the bystander, and it may be that in time to come , as in the past, enactments may be brought about in sup port Of some phases of it” For the in tended purpose they will be as futile as the sanitary laws against spitting or the Mosaic laws against adul tery and idolatry . They will be in constant conflict with the x innate laws of love , hate , se attraction, an d free will given to man with his first a bre th. 4 M at rimony Min ns Mate rn ity u Long before St . Patrick b ilt a fire of u ni icicles and d ring the interve ng years , sincere men ascended the mountain of thought and in the haze of its summit un avail ingly struggled with the mystic prob u lems of life . Some have had brass eno gh in their blood to ofl e r amendments to the laws of progeny worked out in the Car f “ O . us den Eden There God said , Let our m our make man in i age , after like ” ness . Darwin was the first to slip on the ba nana peel of reason in an effort to estab “ ” lish that man in our image was really hi s the image of a monkey, and in day, strange as it may seem , many Of the lead in i i ut g th nkers worsh ped at his shrine , b t o- day the be st thought rej ects thi s theory as a scientific folly. i u The an mal called man, now nder con 240 sideration, has bones , skin 1 200 u 98 pores , breaths per ho r , degrees o f 33 u n ers ira heat , o nces of i sensible p p u tion a day, an average brain Of po nds, u 2500 ua of 1 0 abo t sq re inches skin , yards of 46 u t of bowels , q ar s water, and a pas Eug en y 5 i n at u of s o e longing for the da ghters Eve , which has pranced in his blood for sixty u i cent ries , and been calmed by onan sm, u ul b ggery, rape , incest, fornication, ad t e r . y, and matrimony Man on , which the scientists propose a social operation, infests every part of the i known world . Cl matic and social condi tions have bred in the human famil y a u f an m ltiplicity o distinct races . As an tidote for the mi series of life about four hundred spiritual specifics have been for mul at e d u - by man, which ass re cold stor u ul h age sec rity to the so w ile in the body, and a bed of down after it has gone over the t op . Creeds and superstitions have so burrowed into man that they unalter ably afie ct his habits of life and beliefs u to ching matrimony, monogamy, polyg a ofl s rin amy, const ncy, and p g . Hence by o l common c nsent and in spots on y, can the eugenic scientist ever hope to influence people to statutory mating or regul ated fi rin o sp g .