2.  EACH AFTER ITS KIND.—­“Like parents like children.”  “In their own image beget” they them.  In what other can they?  “How can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit?” How can animal propensities in parents generate other than depraved children, or moral purity beget beings other than as holy by nature as those at whose hands they received existence and constitution?

3.  AS ARE THE PARENTS, physically, mentally and morally when they stamp their own image and likeness upon progeny, so will be the constitution of that progeny.

4.  “JUST AS THE TWIG IS BENT THE TREE’S INCLINED.”—­Yet the bramble cannot be bent to bear delicious peaches, nor the sycamore to bear grain.  Education is something, but parentage is everything; because it “dyes in the wool” and thereby exerts an influence on character almost infinitely more powerful than all other conditions put together.

5.  HEALTHY AND BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.—­Thoughtless mortal!  Before you allow the first goings forth of love, learn what the parental conditions in you mean, and you will confer a great boon upon the prospective bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh!  If it is in your power to be the parent of beautiful, healthy, moral and talented children instead of diseased and depraved, is it not your imperious duty then, to impart to them that physical power, moral perfection, and intellectual capability, which shall ennoble their lives and make them good people and good citizens?

6.  PAUSE AND TREMBLE.—­Prospective parents!  Will you trifle with the dearest interests of your children?  Will you in matters thus momentous, head-long rush

  “Where angels dare not tread,”

Seeking only mere animal indulgence?—­Well might cherubim shrink from assuming responsibilities thus momentous Yet, how many parents tread this holy ground completely unprepared, and almost as thoughtlessly and Ignorantly as brutes—­entailing even loathsome diseases and sensual propensities upon the fruit of their own bodies.  Whereas they are bound, by obligations the most imperious to bestow on them a good physical organization, along with a pure, moral, and strong intellectual constitution, or else not to become parents!  Especially since it is easier to generate human angels than devils incarnate.

7.  HEREDITARY DESCENT.—­This great law of things, “Hereditary Descent,” fully proves and illustrates in any required number and variety or cases, showing that progeny inherits the constitutional natures and characters, mental and physical, of parents, including pre-dispositions to consumption, insanity, all sorts of disease, etc., as well as longevity, strength, stature, looks, disposition, talents,—­all that is constitutional.  From what other source do or can they come?  Indeed, who can doubt a truth as palpable as that children inherit some, and if some, therefore all, the physical and mental nature and constitutor of parents, thus becoming almost their fac-similes?