6.  RESULT OF POOR OPINION.—­Jealousy is a passion with which those are most afflicted who are the least worthy of love.  An innocent maiden who enters marriage will not dream of getting jealous; but all her innocence cannot secure her against the jealousy of her husband if he has been a libertine.  Those are wont to be the most jealous who have the consciousness that they themselves are most deserving of jealousy.  Most men in consequence of their present education and corruption have so poor an opinion not only of the male, but even of the female sex, that they believe every woman at every moment capable of what they themselves have looked for among all and have found among the most unfortunate, the prostitutes.  No libertine can believe in the purity of woman; it is contrary to nature.  A libertine therefore cannot believe in the loyalty of a faithful wife.

7.  WHEN JUSTIFIABLE.—­There may be occasions where jealousy is justifiable.  If a woman’s confidence has been shaken in her husband, or a husband’s confidence has been shaken in his wife by certain signs or conduct, which have no other meaning but that of infidelity, then there is just cause for jealousy.  There must, however, be certain proof as evidence of the wife’s or husband’s immoral conduct.  Imaginations or any foolish absurdities should have no consideration whatever, and let everyone have confidence until his or her faith has been shaken by the revelation of absolute facts.

8.  CAUTION AND ADVICE.—­No couple should allow their associations to develop into an engagement and marriage if either one has any inclination to jealousy.  It shows invariably a want of sufficient confidence, and that want of confidence, instead of being diminished after marriage, is liable to increase, until by the aid of the imagination and wrong interpretation the home is made a hell and divorce a necessity.  Let it be remembered, there can be no true love without perfect and absolute confidence, jealousy is always the sign of weakness or madness.  Avoid a jealous disposition, for it is an open acknowledgment of a lack of faith.

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THE IMPROVEMENT OF OFFSPRING.

Why Bring Into the World Idiots, Fools, Criminals and Lunatics?

1.  THE RIGHT WAY.—­When mankind will properly love AND marry and then rightly generate, carry, nurse and educate their children, will they in deed and in truth carry out the holy and happy purpose of their Creator.  See those miserable and depraved scape-goats of humanity, the demented simpletons, the half-crazy, unbalanced multitudes which infest our earth, and fill our prisons with criminals and our poor-houses with paupers.  Oh! the boundless capabilities and perfections of our God-like nature and, alas! its deformities!  All is the result of the ignorance or indifference of parents.  As long as children are the accidents of lust instead of the premeditated objects of love, so long will the offspring deteriorate and the world be cursed with deformities, monstrosities, unhumanities and cranks.