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The financial embarrassments of the decayed Moslem Empire had led to the sale of Palestine to a company of Jewish capitalists. The purchasers had little difliculty in acting upon the patriotism and commercial eagerness of their people, and inducing large numbers of wealthy houses to mi- grate thither, or at least to establish branch houses in the capital. The barren places in the surrounding districts were replenished with rich earth brought by sea from the Egyp- tian Delta, or the Tufa beds of Vesuvius and Etna. and lib- erally spread on the terraced hills of the new Jerusalem; and the whole desert tract of the lower Jordan and Dead Sea was filled with water up to the level of the Mediterranean, and made navigable, by a canal out through the sandy wilderness from El Arish. . The Ancient Court of the Sanhedrim was re-estirbliqéhed,‘ but on a purely secular basis, as the nature of the times dic- tated. By this were the home affairs of the country regula- ted; its foreign relations being controlled by a committee of the J erusalem Stock-Exchange, a puissant institution in these days of the almost universal supremacy of wealth. Powerful and prosperous as the Jewish community in pal- estine had become, it wanted yet one thing to complete its ambition. The adjoining countries of Arabia and Syria were willing to withdraw altogether from their allegiance to the Sultan, and unite as one people with the Jews, but they could not abandon their allegiance to the principle of’person- al government. The expulsion of the Sublime Porte from Constantinople, and its withdrawal from the Golden Gate of the Holy City, had utterly destroyed its prestige with these populations. But these events were themselves the result of cau.ses which are easily traceable to a period so far back as the twentieth or even the nineteenth century. It was then, that the vivacious; brilliant, and long dominant Celtic race had finally succumbed to the patient, thorough and conscien- tious Teuton. It was then that the silent, studious German, backed by the moral force of our own Anglo-Saxons at home and in North Ame"rica, laid the first round of the political ed- ifice of that modern civilization, whose subsequent stages have included the absorption by Germany of Austria prop- er; the fedonstitution of the Slavonic confederacy, and con- sequent reduction of Russia within moderate dimensions by the withdrawal of"h.er southern populations; the re-establish- .ment of the “ Holy Roman Empire,” with Hungary as a roy- al appanage, in its own ancient capital on the Bosphorus; and the waning of the Turkish dominion, through its ina- bility to retain its_hold upon its border provinces. My elder readers, who have all history, ancient and modern, at their finger-ends‘, must forgive the recapitulation of these details as not irrelevant to our story. ‘ There wasno king in Israel; and a king of Israel was the “roc’s egg” of my grandmother’s imagination. In such a potentate she saw the sole possible supplanter of the Grand Turk, whom she regarded as the Anti—Ohrist, the sole sym- bol of empire powerful enough to draw -the peoples surround- ing her beloved Jerusalem under the shelter of its wings. And it is nota little remarkable, that what with her was _ purely areligious sentiment, had become, for astute politi- cians, a master-key to the solution of the principal remain- ing Eastern Question. As I have already stated, the popula- tions of those countries retain all their ancient immemorial attachment to the personal printiple both in religion and politics. They have not followed the northern racesin their recognition of abstract right and wrong apart from the will of an individual. With us, wherever an individual is invest- ed with power, it is for the sake of concentrating vigor and responsibility in a single executive; ourselves, the people, being the beneficiaries and judges. With the semi-Semitic races, on the contrary, the ruler is the master, not the ser- vant, of the people. We have long passed the stage in which people held strong convictions . respecting more forms of government. Together with other dogmas we have got rid of the dogma. of monarchy and the dogma. of republicanism. 1 00' Whatever form of government best combines the liberty of the individual with the general security forany people, is approved of by us. As the genius of "races and peoples va- ries, so will these forms vary. The detail must be a matter 0 experience for ail,'not of dogma for any. ‘ We have thus learned to recognize the sanctity of indi- viduality in races, as well as in persons. And there was no inconsistency in the statesmen of the great and highly—civil- ized republics of Europe, America and Australia desiring to see a monarchy established in the East, having itslthrone in Jerusalem. Thefact that such a result was desired by'the leading Jews themselves, who were on the spot, was deemed a very strong argument in its favor; for, trained as they had mostly been in our free communities and institutions, they were naturally favorable to the continuance of the state of things under which they had flourished, and grown rich enough to re-acquire the land of their forefathers, and raise it to such an ‘eminence among the nations of the earth as it had never before attained or imagined——an eminence based on material wealth. "Without a king, however, they were unable to avail themselves of the readiness of the populations inhabiting the regions extending southward from the Cas- pian Sea and the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea,'Ato make one nation with them; for those populations were essentially and intensely anti-democratic. Vlith a king, this object so desir- able to us as well as to them, would at once have been ac- complished; and we should have had a strong and friendly power to guard our main connections with our allies in India and Japan, and our dependencies in China, on the one side; and on theother, to keep in order the restless and still semi- barbarous empireof Central Africa. So they were all struck by Mrs. Wilmer’s remark. But it was not in the same way that they were struck by it. To Bertie it was simply preposterous. “ My little Criss a king!” he exclaimed. “ 1 am sure that it is no kingdom of this world that he would care to have, any more than a farm. His heart is above the clouds.” “ He cannot spend his money there,” said lVlr.‘Avenil. “ By the way, have you ever, Mr. Greathead, taken him to the Holy Land‘ in any of your voyages ?” Asked Mrs. Wil- mer. ‘ “ Once only,” returned Bertie, and then Twas so alarmed at the attention his looks attracted, and also at meeting the diamond merchant, that I hurried away without completing the inquiries I was making about his family. I hardly know why, but I have a suspicion that that merchant knew more about the real history of those jewels than he was willing to tell us, and I thought it best to leave well alone. Did I ever tell you that I have seen them- since we parted with them?” ‘* Indeed!” “It was on the occasion of my going to Borncu, the capital of Central Africa, on a commission connected with the cot- ton trade, that I was invited to witness a religious ceremoni- al at the court of His Majesty the Emperor of Soudan. You must know that though the country professes Christianity, the royal family have never abandoned the rite of circum- cision. This is inflicted on its members in infancy, the rite of baptism being deferred until the seventh year. The ordi- nary and orthodox usage on the formeroccasion, is to bind the principal crown diamonds on the pit of the royal infa.nt”S stomach, there to be worn for nine days. The jewels in ques- tion are regarded with a peculiar and superstitious rever- ence, as coming directly from King Solomon, and they-are combined in an oval form as a tiara, and called the Talisman of Solomon. But the crown jewels had for several years been missing, and were not forthcoming on the occasion of the first rite being performed on the heir-apparent. It was said that they had recently been discovered, and there was great public rejoicings in consequence; for the people are still excessively superstitious, in spite of their having Chris- tianity and the Bible. And it was determined to rectify the omission at the first cermemony, by using them at the bap- tism in the same way that they ought to have been used at the circumcision. , ‘ “Well, Ifound that this famous and sacred Talisman of Solomon consisted of -no other than the ‘jewels belonging to Criss, and which we had sold for him.” ’ “Curious,” observed Mr. Avenil; “I wonder whether it was a." lie of the Empercr’s, or whether they were really the crown jewels which he bad. If so, they must have been stolen.” , \ . . “At any rate,” said Bertie, “the Emperor’s readness to give a large sum of money for their recovery, without asking any questions, shows that he had strong misgivings respect- ing the validity of his own title to them.” I _ “ I don’t like one remark which you made, Mr. Greathead,” said my grandmother. -“ Instead of saying these people are superstitious in spite of their having Christianity and the Bible, say they are religious owing to their having them.” “ I was anticipating a somewhat different remark from you, my dear Mrs. Wilmer,” said Mr Avenil. “ I thought you were about to claim the throne of Central Africa, at least, for the lad. At any rate, I hope you all agree with me that this story must be kept from him. It would foster his propensity for dreaming, which to me is really alarming, and one that requires correction~by vigorous treatment.” “ He must know all when he comes of age,” said_Mrs. Wil- mer, with energy. “His duty and” mission in life may de- pend upon it.” - 1 ~ “ Well, well,” said Mr. Avenil, “ whatever the future may contain for him, it is clearly our business to make a man of him first, and not a visionary. CHAPTER X. _ It was no small gratification to Bertie to be able to relate to the Avenils anything concerning his beloved foster-child that might tend to disabuse them of the notion that he was a mere visionary. One possessing Criss’s acute sympathy with humanity could not, he thought, be liable to the charge no matter how he might love to cultivate solitude and medi- ‘W tation in the intervals of his activity. During» a holiday ab- sence of the boys, one of the Avenil girls was telling her sis- ters, how that he had lamented to her the fullness of the world, and wished that he had lived before the modern sys- tem of emigration had done so much" toward spreading pop- ulation everywhere. And. another said he actedjas, if he ' possessed an extra sense, and one that required for its exer- cise a total withdrawal from human intercourse. Bertie happened to call while they were talking, and they at once turned to him, asking- “ Wherelis he now, Mr. Greathead 7?” “Meaning Cries? I scarcely know. I had a message from him a few days ago from the top of Tenerifie, which is one of his favorite perches. He has a friend in the observatory there. There is a wire on the summits, as on most other sum-1 mits, for the convenience of aerialists, and he generally sends me a message when he alights anywhere.” ’ “ Oh, I know,” exclaimed one of the girls, “ he delights to rest awhile on some high peak, and thence take flight into the air, and return again to it, as a lark to its nest, after be- ing. poised aloft, It was a happy inspiration of Mr. Wilmer’s I which gave him his name, for neverdid’ name and nature more closely correspond. _However dreamy he may be, he must see many things by moving about so much, which other people miss. He ought to meet with adventures, too. Did he say whither he was going next?” ‘ “Yes, to Algiers to visit a school friend who is son of the British minister there. I have not heard from him since, but I have broughtyou an Italian paper with an account of an extraordinary rescue of people from destruction by theeflrup- tion of Etna, which I, as an aerialist, find exceedingly inter- esting, and which I thought you might like to see.” A “ Anything about Criss in it ?” “ It is only as 1 have said.” “ Do tell us all about it.” “ Well, you must know» that for a very long time Etna. had been so quiet that a large population had come gradually to settle upon its slopes, thinking the days of its activity were over. Last week, however, a. tremendous eruption rent the mountain in various places, and there poured out torrents of lava, which,,meeting below one of the most thickly peopled slopes, completely out off the escape of the inhabitants. The Italian Government sent its best aerialists to try and extri- cate them, but these, after many and disastrous attempts to pass the barrier of intense heat, and alight exactly upon the very limited area available, were compelled to desist; and then from within the flaming circle, from the wretches doomed to be burnt or starved to death, and from their sympathizing but helpless comrades without, went up a cry of agony,- which, as you know, has rung through all the wires . ofthe world, appealing for aid. I and others of my craft were on the point of starting to see what wecould do, when a telegram came to say that the rescue had been affected. I have now got the details, and as I consider them a whole bunch of feathers in the cap of aerialism, I have come to glorify my calling and its professorsvamong my friends. “It appears that at the moment when despair was at its height, an aerialist whose approach had been unperceived, alighted in the terror—stricken crowd, and signified his readi- ness and abilityto save them, one at a time. The peasants, who are still as much a paroelof children as they were five or ten thousand years ago, rushed upon him, determined to be saved all at once. Seeing that their violence would be the destruction of himself. and his machine,,as well as of them- ' selves also, he dexterously disengaged himself, and leaping ' aloft out of their reach, was lost to their-view in the. smoke of the burning mountain. On hearing their renewed wail of despair, he presently returned toward them, and hailing them, said he hoped now that they would do as theyiwere told, and not attempt to get in the car again. He then stop- ped a few yards over their heads, and bade them depute one of their ‘number to hold parley with him, the rest keeping at a distance. Luckily their padre was with them,—it is he who ‘ has given the account,——and it was under his influence that the stipulations of the aerialist were observed. The import- ant question who should go first, was settled in favor’ ofjthe children. ' The aerialist said he could carry two of these at at once; so the padre brought two children himself, and placed them in the car, for he could not trust the mothers to obey the orders given. _ He describes it as a moment of agonizing anxiety when the car arose with its first load, and disappeared in the smoke. But not a voice ventured to ut- ter a sound. Presently, however, there arose from the mul- titudes who were assembled on the outside of the ring of fire,‘ a cry and shout of joy which told those within of the safe and unexpected arrival of the car and its contents. All , was delirious delight for a moment, and then came an inter- val of suspense. But soon the car returned and carried off more children; and then the aged and infirm, and then the able bodied, the ‘good padre himself being reserved for the last, the lava having by this time approached so near that a little delay would have rendered his escape impossible. The I rescue had ‘ occupied all the ‘day and a part of the night, though much tirrfe had been saved by the plan of suspending a large basket beneath the car in which the passengers were carried. But it was not, and could not be intermitted until ' completed, though it must have tasked the endurance of the aerialist and the powers of his machine to the utmost.” [mo BE coNrn>IUED.] :-—<9>—-:---—-m -We are glad to see in the London papers that Alf. Burnett, the quaint, quizzical carioaturist and delineator of all ‘man- ner of manhood, has made a great hit _in England. He is pronounced the best-mimic ever seen in that country, while Miss Helen Nash, who assists him, is in for an unusual share of compliments. Wherever they appear crowded houses greet and delighted audiences applaud them. They had bet- ter come home and amuse Americans,>not be gadding about in the old country, making people laugh and filling their pockets with gold.-.Pomeeuoy’,s Democrat. " —-._.»., . wk w_~‘“g \-* _ 7;‘: <‘..>.-‘ '.--+,»..::-:;..._.._.. .—\-.—-»..-,.;..< _.,,,,{_ __\ ‘ _ '4 V i. C "V WOODHU“LiL&CL.AFL_IN’S WEEKLY. A Sept. 19, 1874. A SOCIALISTIC. MODERN GIRLS. Under the above heading the Boston Investigator publishes the following tirade against some of the efiects of our present social system. We admit its truthfulness, and trust, as it has exhibited some of the evils, it will now turn its attention to pointing out the cure for them. Here is the article: “» We boast of our system of education; we have female high schools, female colleges, femalemedical schools and femaleheavens. Our girls are refined, learned and wise; they can sing, dance, play pianos, paint, talk French and , Italian and all the soft languages, write poetry and love like Venuses. “They are ready to be courted at ten years, and can be taken from school and married at fifteen, and divorced at twenty. They make splendid shows on bridal tours, can ldequette and flirt at the watering-places, and shine" like angels at winter parties. But heaven be kind to the poor wretch that marries in the fashionable circles. What are they at washing floors? Oh! we forgot——nobody has bare floors now; how vulgar that would be! What are they at making bread and boiling beef? Why, how thoughtless we are, to be sure~—they will board or have servants. What are they at mending old clothes? But there we are again-the fashions change so often that nobody has old clothes but the rag men and paper—makers now. What are they at Washing babies’ faces and pinning up their trousers? And here is our ‘intolerable stupidity once more——he.ming children is left to the Irish!‘ What lady thinks of having children about her now? or, if she is so unfortunate, don’t she put them to wetnurses to begin with, and boarding-schools afterward? Werepeat, we have come to a point where young men hesitate and grow old before they can decide whether they can marry and afterward keep clear of bankruptcy and crime. What is the consequence? . “ There are more persons living a single life. Are there more leading a virtuous life? It is time for mothers to know that the extravagance they encourage is destructive of the virtue of their children; that all the foolish expenditures are, instead of answering that end, tending to destroy the institution of marriage altogether.” Think of it, neighbor—“havingchildren is left to the Irish.” What a comment on the morality of the American people you have made in those few words! Well, we have proposed a remedy for the disease; it is the best we have to offer; if you do not approve of it, let us have yours. You must admit, after the charges you have made, that silence on the subject is more than an omission; it is a grave crime. JUSTIFIED LOVE. BY w. r. JAMIESON. , One feature has been prominent in the Beecher-Tilton im- broglio. It is admitted by Mrs. Tilton herself that she loved Mr. Beecher, and the distinguishing feature adverted to is that this "free love is justified by press, pulpit and people. Some of us have known for years that the church contained thousands of free lovers and tens of thousands of “ enforced lusters.” The church is the great enemy to all unpopular reforms and reformers. While decrying them she has boasted of her own virgin purity. It is now widely known that she is “ no better than she ought to be.” And now what do the press and pulpit seek to do? Nothing else than to vindicate their free loveism. It is seen staring the multitudes in the face; it shines out on bulletin-boards, “Beecher’s love for Mrs. Tilton justified." Who would have thought it! and they so bitter against free lovers—-Mrs. Tilton going so far in her Christly wrath as to call the police to eject free lovers from her house. She probably knew better than any one else that free loveism was catching in her family.- But, as the French say, there is one grand distinction. Christians can bill and coo for Christ’s sake, for their loving is done ‘on high religious grounds!‘ Don’t you see? Mrs. Tilton’s religious belief on the love question is as follows: “ The peculiar phase of Christ’s character as a lover is so pre- cious to me because of my consecration and devotion to you [her husband]; I learn to love you from my love to Him. I have .learned to love Him from loving you. I couple you with him. Nbr do I-feel it one whit irreverent.” That hus- band of hers, became too liberal, especially in his theologi- cal views, to suit her. She could not brook an honest differ- ence of opinion on church ‘dogmas. Poor woman, she is not to blame for it. _ It is the soul-cramping, body-fettering, per- secuting system of Christianity under ‘which she had been trained, that is responsible. Tilton says, under oath, that Beecher, by the “ artful use of his priestly authority ” with Mrs. Tilton, “ she being his pupil in religion,” seduced her, Beecher claiming that their relations were “sanctioned by love and religion.” For years we iconoclastic reformers have been in posses- sion of facts and published them, showing that the flesh and blood of the clergy were not one whit different from the flesh and blood of other people. For many years I have declared that it was a sham to assert that -religion had a restraining influence on the amative desires of the clergy or the people. Statistics prove that religion has, on the contrary, been an- unhealthful stimulus to sexual passion. There is no class of men on earth who are more intimate with women than the clergy. One reason why there are so many more women than men who are church members and church goers, is be- cause the preachers are men. It is a question of sex. A natural law is at the basis of the question, and when inter- preted in the light of nature it is a beautiful law, and when fully comprehended will go very far toward securing equality between man and woman. ‘ If church people had spent less time in preaching‘ and listening to sermons on “Jesus Christ and Him crucified,” and more upon knowing men and women happified, a large measure of ignorance would have been dispelled. The very ministers who now find it possible to say “ sexual inter- course ” in the pulpit are indebted to Victoria C. Woodhull, whom they curse for clearing their way for plain utterance. Their plain quotations from the Bible bear no resemblance. The Bible attempts at plainness are nothing but shocking vulgarisms. , When the clergy will rely on God—a myth—less, and reason more, they will subject the passions to reason’s sway and be- held womanhood more glorious than they ever imagined angel or seraph. L The'th,,eory of the Christian Church is that amarried woman has no right to love any other man than her husband, except a Lord by the name of Jesus Christ. To whom could Mrs. Tilton turn after Christ oozed out of Mr. Tilton? Where, oh, where, if not to her beloved shepherd? To him she turned. The so-called Saviour is too ghostly to fully satisfy most of womankind. Something more akin to flesh and blood is desirable. The demand is met. The Christian sys- tem—ah, how complete in every part—has provided numer- ous shepherds in place of the one. They are scattered all over Christendom, so-called. Beecher is one of them——a rouser. To him did Mrs. Tilton go. She found him a better shepherd than Tilton, her husband. The cravings of her woman-heart were met—her fond desires satisfied. At first she thought Theodore would answer for her Saviour. _ She was disappointed, andlwas so sorry he was not a minister. Then she sought a balm for her woes in one of the regularly ordained shepherds, who “ has been so much to her soul,” so she says. She acknowledged to the Investigating Com- mittee: “I never felt a bit of embarrassment with Mr. Beecher.” Are the sheep embarrassed in the presence of their shepherds? Not if the‘ shepherds understand their business, and they generally do! . Mrs. Tilton told the committee that she found in Mr. Beecher what she did not find in her husband. “ There was always a damper,” said Elizabeth, “ between me and Theo- dore, but there never was between me and Mr. Beecher.” It is no stretch of the imagination to say that she could have substantially addressed Beecher as she formerly did her husband. “While sitting with her beloved pastor, who “ap- preciated” her as “Theodore did not,” she could whisper into his willing ear, “ The peculiar phase of Christ’s char- acter as a lover is so precious to me.” “ I learn to love you from my love to Him.” “ I have learned to love Him from loving you.” “ I couple you with Him; nor do I feel it one whit irreverent.” Oh! thank Heaven and the Bible and Christianity for justified love! And all the churches respond, “Amen!” Editors exclaim, “Glory!” Ministers solemnly say, “Let us pray.” “Have mercy on us, poor, miserable sinners. Oh, Lord! thou knowest we are hell-deserving creatures; but as thou art a merciful and unjust God, we are promised a means of escape from our just deserts. Thou has promised to wink at our wanderings into by and forbidden paths, into pastures fresh and green; and thou hast promised, O, Lord, to wink us at last into heaven, to dwell with thee forever. As thou hast in sundry ways in times past had dealings with the fair daughters of men, so thy holy servants have tasted of forbidden fruit, reserved for the gods, to make them wise unto salvation. Oh, heavenly parent! thou knowest we, thine appointed servants, needed wisdom to combat the enemies of thy kingdom, especially that arch enemy, Victoria C. Woodhull, who impiously grasped thy secret purposes, foreordained before the world was; yea, Lord, even the ‘Elixir of Life,’ to taste which is to eat and live forever. Behold, Lord! ‘ it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,’ and we, thine unworthy servants, did pluck of the fruit thereof and did eat, and passed it around and fed thy sheep. And it came to pass that six men of a goodly people in Brooklyn did sew fig-leaves together to make unto themselves aprons. Wilt thou come down and be our refuge, and make for thy shepherds ‘coats of skins,’ and clothe them as thou didst thy people in days of old? Confound our enemies, Lord, who know not the ecstatic love begotten of religious fervor, and who sacri- legiously preach and practice that which, in thy divine economy, is set apart for thy holy priests in the temple, for Jesus’ sake. ‘The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.’ Pardon then our iniquities; and, finally, in the language of Sister Tilton, we ‘ will do the same thing again ’ for Christ’s sake. Amen.” The congregation will please arise and singthe dogs-ology. BENEDICTION. Now may the God of Abraham and David—-a free luster after God’s own heart—~and the God of Solomon, the Wise, be and abide with you, world without end. A'PRAO’l‘IOAL VIEW OF THE SOCIAL QUESTION. BY w. WALLACE COWLES. In the WEEKLY of July 12, “73, Mrs. Mattie Mitchell pre- sented with her views for consideration the following propo- sitions: “ That from gathered opinions there may be sifted the pure grains of truth.” “ Sexual intercourse should never be exercised but for the purpose for which the function was established—the procreation of the species.” Second—“ Sex- ual intercourse should never be held except between persons who are mutually attached to each other by the purest ties of love.” Third-—“ That coition for any other purpose is a degradation of the highest and holiest “function of our being. It is self-evident that the natural result of sexual intercourse is children.” M With delight we hail the dawn of this new era. Agitation has become the great demand of the age, with strong desire seeking for more knowledge on subjects ignored or sup- pressed in the past. As all phases of the social question have ‘believers, pro or con, as questions arise thoughts are ma- tured; and on this question of vital importance, While main- taining views at variance with those controverted, we desire that light may be evolved as truth and error‘ grapple. The investigation of that mysterious law through which all organized’ beings are perpetuated, reveals I the fact that throughout the realms of animated nature the vivifying in- fluence which results in gestation comes through the union and blending" of a male and female element. In those species of the viviparous order (below the gems homo), with one known exception, N ature’s manifestations point to sexual intercourse as means intended solely for the propagation of the species, for only at the auspicious time will the female permit of advances from the male, andnever when gestation has taken place: and connection, with rare exceptions, never fails being followed by conception. Exceptional to this rule is the nature of the goat, in which are found manifestations like unto the human, regarding neither time or condition, with desire ever present, both before and after gestation. Now if, as alleged, this function was established solely for the procreation of the species here as elsewhere, to that ob- ject alone should Nature direct her efforts, and during the foetal development“ of the embryo, with the female at least, it should be a season of copulative rest. If from these pre- mises truth can be deduced, the plain inference is that this function" was not established with one law controlling all species alike; for the goat thus instinctively acts strictly in accordance with nature, because they were thus sexually created. Advancing to the plane of sentient beings, governed by reason in place of instinct, are not the majority, in their sexual inclinations, allied to the goat? Now, the simple fact that this inclination thus exists, is analogous proof that nature so intended; for whatever is in harmony with, can- not be contrary to nature. This, some may answer, is “ the result of human depravity.” With such the perfection of human nature is the annihilation of genial feelings, and they believe that the passions which kind nature has implanted should, if possible, be suppressed, if not destroyed, forgetting that man exists a microcosm, or epitome, of all created below through that mysterious blending and union of spirit with matter. Thus each individual is endowed, in greater or less degree, with the capacity for emanating those mysterious forces which, as positive and negative magnetism, nature has designed with a thrill of delight should sexually blend in a harmonious, concurrent union. The sexual organs in their office are dual as a means of promoting health and hap- piness, satisfying a demand of our nature——spiritua1 as well as physical, for the spirit at the supreme moment often be- comes oblivious to everything else; and when harmoniously the twain become as one, if there is also a similarity in their physical and mental organization, love will complete the union. But should these forces be out of balance, repulsion may take the place of attraction, or, by absorption, the weaker be robbed to exhaustion of its vitality, with lassitude and disease given in exchange. Here is found a prolific source from which springs much of the social misery in the 1and—from the impossibility of thus blending incongru- ous elements. Now, unless it can be shown that the logic is fallacious, these views must be conceded as correct, or be unavoidably driven to the conclusion that polygamy, rather than monogamy, is the true relation of the sexes; for if, as alleged, coition was intended solely for the propagation of the species, nature, through the brute creation, points out the way best adapted to produce thatresult, for excessive venery has ever proved inimical to conception. But were this mode adbpted, one woman would constitute but a small fraction in making up that sexual unit, of which one healthy, vigorous man would be half, in meeting this requirement of nature. Man is thus but half a circle, but half a perfect being; but one harmonious woman is the other half of that circle, necessary and suflicient to complete the periphery which makes the perfect man. Again, if Mrs. M.’s views were a correct expression of nature, when conception had taken place and during the whole gestative period, with the woman all sexual desire should cease. But is it not a fact that pregnancy does not cause a suspension of sexual desire, but on the contrary with many, desire is stronger or more intense when this condition exists ? Coming to “ the turn of life,” with woman, should there not be a complete cessation of all sexual desire? for when this takes place, nature gives a full release to the organs from further maternal labors. If such is the case a great libel was perpetrated both on nature and woman in the story that a hale old lady who, as a wife, was verging on three score and ten, at a tea party was asked, at what age woman ceased having sexual desire ;—her reply being, “ For an answer to that question you will have to ask some one older than I am.” A Mrs. Michell’s self-evident proposition in assuming that sexual intercourse is the cause of which children are the natural result, is not sustained when investigating that mis- terious law through which conception comes. Children are products; coition but means which may or may not produce that result, as conditions prove favorable or otherwise. When viewing sexual intercourse in its pro-creative aspect, in tracing from cause to effect, coition is nature’s method for the transfer of the male principle t6 the female organs. Yet the act ever proves futile in the absence of that equally important female product, matured ovum. These elements together even are not sufficient, there must be a union formed by an entering into the ovum at its germinal spot by a spermatazoon to commence the vivifying process. And yet this does not complete all of natures primary require- ments. Following the union theremust be a lodgment with adhesion to the adjacent membrane that proper" nourishment may be obtained for foetal growth. These are nature’s conditions and not until all have been perfected can it be said conception has taken place. . 7 Mrs. M. says, “ It is a mistake to consider the amative principle as being love. Love is a principle or sentiment of man’s spiritual nature, while the amative principle is a natu- ral function for the propagation of the species. When these two principles ‘are united, as they are when children are de- sired, then it is one of the grandest powers with which the human race is endowed. When it is indulged When children are not desired,‘ simply for the gratification of passion, then does it degenerate into lust and licentiousness. One is ;the use the other the abuse. Under the present mode of life children are conceived in passion with no desire of their parents, and born in direct opposition to their wishes. Mothers hating them and using every means in their power to prevent their development and birth. Can we wonder at the vicious, degraded state of the mass of mankind? Think . £3 , ..,':$__,_‘ Sept. 19, 1874. WOODHULL J5 CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY; '_ I I s. also of the body and soul-destroying means used to prevent conception and then ask your own soul if it is right and natural.” Now if the amative principle was a function created solely for the propagation of the species, this state of afiairs would not exist, for nature would assert her supremacy here as else- where. The science of phrenology teaches we have distinct -organs of thought and ‘feeling, strong and intense only as a corresponding volume of brain is there located, by which characteristics are formed. Thus amativeness is laid down as “the foundation of connubial love and sexual desire,” with philoprogenitiveness as the source from whence- springs love for offspring, from these sources springs all love, whether the manifestations be sensual or sentimental. Says one writer; “ There is this prime distinction between human and brute love—in the ability of the human being to indulge in sexual passion and emotion under certain conditions with- out reference to oifsprin g. Coition has both its social and its procreative character; it is a source of human happiness and personal gratification, as well as an agency for continuing the race.” In the sentence last quoted from Mrs. M., she evidently made a misapplication in the term she used. Means to produce an abortion may, with truth, be called “ body and soul-destroying,” and the number of children thus ruthlessly sent to spirit life is fearful to contemplate; but preventing conception is of an entirely difierent charac- ter, and less’ injurious to body, mind or soul, when effected by use of appropriate means than the suppression of our natural desire because children are not wanted.’ Is not one of nature’s demands just as sacred as another? Now if by withholding connection conception is prevented (the result being the same), ’tis equally true whether accomplished by your method or mine; for, as shown, conception depends upon the union of a sperm and ovum, and any means which prevents this union prevents conception. That conception and gestation were designed to hold but 'a subordinate place in the economy of nature, with sentient beings might readily be inferred, when contrasting those de- sires sexual with those parental. But this question remains no longer problematical; for, by investigations made, the truth has been clearly verified that, through normal condi- tions, with most females there is interposition made by nature of means to prevent conception from being an oft- recurrent event. To explain: In most communities there are married women who have never conceived, likewise many who have had but one or two children, with long. in- tervals of time between them. Has this been owing to their dislike for children, and have they, by adopting Mrs. M.’s plan, refrained from giving nature any further orders? On the contrary, childless wives are great lovers of children; with many their paramount desire being to have children of their own. Thus investigations were instituted to discover and, if possible, correct the producing cause, revealing the fact that this sterile condition might exist with health on a par or even better than the average of “this nation of in- valids,” with nature performing all other functional duty with due regularity. Microscopic examinations of the secre- tions revealed" the existence of a natural counteracting cause, deleterious to the continued existence of the spermatozoa, brought in contact with the same,destroying them before they could form the union necessary to produce conception; thus ever thwarting the hopes of those interested,the desired bless- ing of motherhood. Extending these examinations and tests to those who were mothers and prolific and at times the same condition was found to exist with intervals of longer or shorter duration. This variable condition is a common in- heritance to woman, each extreme’ the exception, and this truth may be readily seen by observing those who marry, of which probably not one in a thousand from her first child’s birth can honestly date the time of its conception back to the ratification of her nuptial vows. With the majority this time extends into months; with many running into years. This is a wise provision in nature. Maternity should never be unwillingly assumed. N o woman should find herself a prospective mother before the desire for motherhood shall first have udded for the blossom in her heart; maternal instincts should first call for the condition, then she will joyfully enter upon its duties and with gladness fulfill this divine mission of her being. Great is the contrast between what should be and what is, with thousands of wives in the land who have become sexually demoralized. Through fear of conception the act has become exceedingly disgusting and repulsive, without a natural consummation, yet in a highly receptive condition, with this fear of ma- ternity to them an ever-pursuing demon. For reason, when controlled by the generative impulse, fails to guide or direct the appetite of man aright when seeking for self-indulgence, and a wail of woe from suffering women in all parts of the land bears testimony to this truth, that they are bound in fetters forged from religion and the Bible, and are thus held in sexual bondage. Deplorable as must be this condition to either of the participants on the shady side of matrimony, suppression is impracticable as a means to bring the needed relief, by being incompatible with the fealty imposed by . love, or that fidelity which is enjoined through marriage vows; for the best of_ men. however complacent in other re- spects, while maintaining marital relations, do not relish the idea of personally practicing even for brief periods of time that negative virtue—continence. But is there no balm for all this sorrow—nothing to assuage and relieve those thus‘ maternally bound down and enslaved? Is there no means of rescuing these victims of Hymen from a living death by being thus immolated on the altar of Moloch? To these interrogations happily an affirmative an- swer can be given, and heartfelt thanks are due to those of the summer land whose attainments in the realms of nature, chemistry and physiological science fitted them to co-operate as leaders in aiding those progressive and reformatory minds who are striving to alleviate and ameliorate woman’s condi- tion socially, sexually and materially, by perfecting a more elevated and harmonious system of social ethics, adapted to their variable relations, both present and perspective. In this emergency, as e practicable means of relief was needed to meet the exigency of the case, theyfperfected and have imparted that knowledge which unlocks nature’s fet- ters, proclaiming liberty to those in bondage, placing woman upon an equality as far as possible with her more fortunate brother while sailing o’er life’s tumultuous sea, made up of joy and sorrow. _ Protection from harm. with freedom to act, is the liberty thus vouchsafed, which will prove one of the greatest of earthly boons ever bestowed on sufieringwoman, in bridging over those recurring intervals, by producing a condition analagous to nature in results, while granting perfect im- munity with natural consummation. No longer held in subjection. striving against adverse con- ditions, the control of woman’s maternal functions can re- main where vested by‘ nature———in self alone. Thus soul germs need not to put on material forms under adverse conditions, as too often has been the case where another claimed the right to disregard or determine whether omens were aus- picious for nature to make that great change from the passive to the active. A glorious future awaits humanity when women for their Shibboleth shall have adopted as their rallying cry, “ No more children except under harmonious and desirable con- ditions.” For its verification no woman, through lack of means need long to remain passive and powerless. For when truth shall have burst the fetters of ignorance and supersti- tion, woman will arise disenthralled and assert her preroga- tive, permitting nature to go only thus far and no farther than to her seemeth best, thus ever held obedient to her sway. Who will say this method is not better than “ sup- pression,” when this condition can be thus reached and re- tained, without sin or sacrifice or any abrogation of marital rights? A NEW BRITAIN, Oonn., June 5, 1874. QUESTION'AND ANSWER. “ If Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton loved each other,and they chose to express that love, no matter in what manner, who was injured thereby except themselves? Why does not society set up its dictum in regard to what food they and others shall partake of, and at what times and by whom it shall be supplied?” . ‘ , Mrs. Severence; your letter in the WEEKLY, August 22. contains the above paragraph. Will you be kind enough to show me how truth and honor can be maintained under such circumstances. Here are two persons, each of their own free will and earnest desire, seek a partnership and contract to live together as man and wife, keeping themselves to each other—in plain English, cohabiting with each other, and no one else beside, so long as the partnership may continue, let this contract be made for love, for children, or to prevent the contraction of disease, or all three. You assume they have a right to regulate their own affairs. If so, they have the right to make such contract as they please. Having made it and pledged their sacred word, are they not,bound to keep it? If I do not choose to live with a woman who will not keep her- self to me I can see no reason why you should object to my living with one who will accept me as a partner, being as desirous as myself to live as we agree. Now, such one having pledged their truth and honor, how can they be free (?) to contract with another party secretly? And if either contract such partnership with another firm, living under a similar agreement, it appears to me it is some- body’s business besides the two perjured individuals. Society_ says buy, cook and eat what food you choose, but if you take food I have honestly earned, because it suits you better than your own, have I not a right to object? and if you persist in stealing it, and I am not strong enough to prevent it, society will help me to defend myself. I am not talking of persons who have made no contract to live with each other, and as you mention Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, whom you know were living under such an agreement, I cannot see how I misrepresent you. If I have, will you correct me? If Mr. B. or Mrs. T. had said to their partner: The contract I made with you has become unbearable and I wish it dis- solved, hereafter I shall not be bound by it ;——then, and not till then, would they have been free to seek other partners without violating their own own truth and honor, or the confidence reposed in them by the firm of which they were a member. In other words, having entered into a special partnership, they had no business to take in a third party . without consultation and agreement with each other. If you can show me how it can be done consistently with truth and honor I shall have learned something I cannot understand now. If I contract with my partner for a white baby and I am presented with .a black one, -I shall earnestly maintain I have a right to object to such presentation. If I understand the advocates of this question, the one great ob- ject of the reform is theiimprovement of the race—a better class of children being born, physically and morally. How can such views be carried out, unless you can depend on the truth and veracity of each other? Will you answer me? O. A. MIDDLEBROOK, Bridgeport, Conn. MR. MIDDLEBROOK: . Dem‘ St'r—Your letter of inquiry and criticism received and carefully read. Your questions are based upon the old idea that the legal contract is what constitutes marriage, while I hold that there is a higher marriage which is above and be~ yond that which is legal merely, and when the higher and the lower forms conflict, the higher will always gain the vic- tory, as every advanced condition is certain of a conquest over a lower. . Let us look for a moment at our present marriage system. In the first place I think all physicians and physiologists know and people generally admit, that the blending of the , sexes after reaching maturity is a natural, useful and sacred relation—that living isolated one from the other is unnatural and injurious. Our laws and public opinion declare that this natural, useful and sacred act is a sin, unless you first take upon yourself the vow to “ love, honor and obey until parted by death ”-.~a. vow which, no one but an ignorant person, would ever think of taking, but which all of us in our igno- rance have taken upon ourselves——-a vow that we soon found, perhaps, it was impossible to keep, for no one can love that which is repulsive, and no one can honor what is dishonora- ble, although the failing to do so may brand us as perjurers. Our old standard, yet recognized by the masses, says‘ no matter if the repulsion amounts to hatred, you have entered the partnership for life and you must remain to the bitter end, no matter how many unwelcome children are born as a result of the gratification of unhallowed passion on the one hand and disgust on the other, organized from theseelements for the commission of all manner of crimes“ and subject to all kinds of diseases. I take the position that the sexual relation should never be into from mutual desires, and that anything other than this is prostitution and impurity, and children begotten, except ._in a love relation, are not such as the world needs to-dayto make it better. Now,. if two persons have lived together’ for years without love toward each other, as many do——-not from any fault of love of their companion, each one suffering as they must from the lack of love to feed the demands of their souls—and one of thesefimeets with one who arouses in them affection they had long since supposed forever buried, and gives them new hopes, new life, new aspirations, transforming their weary, monotonous life into one of perpetual spring and beauty,—— can this new revelation‘, this inspiration. of love. be other than a blessing? And. can the husband, who is unable te call out the best and noblest part of her woman’s soul, be wronged because some one else can bless her where he cannot, or pro- duce music in her soul upon chords long since silent, because untouched? Does the blending of these two loving souls in- jure any one? I say no, but the selfishness of society says yes. You are my property, I own your body instead of your owning yourself. You have sworn to love and keep yourself to me. I reply, You have failed in the first place to keep your vow to love, upon which all the rest depended; for no two persons who fully love and feed cach other ever desire outside relations. Every man and woman has the inalienable right to all the love their nature has the power to call out from others, and no more; and what you cannot attract is not yours, and you have no right to demand it. If you do not wish longer to remain in any relation you have the right to change. I do not believe in deceit and hypocrisy, but in honesty in every department of life, and claim that the meddlesome interference of society is what makes people such. hyocrites. Every person should have the right accorded to them to live according to their own ideas of right, each alone being the judge, so long as there is no infringement upon the rights of any one else-giving every one"the same right they have. ‘ A person believing in the old-fashioned way of buying a wife for a certain sum of money has the right to so purchase if the merchandise herself does not object, or the more modern purchase by a home and bank stock, or for any other reason, or to marry in any other manner they may choose, and as long as both believe that to be the highest life they ought to live accordingly. But if one of the parties in the contract should grow beyond this condition before the other does, there is no justice in laws or in public opinion that to compel a man, because he once joined the Catholic Church, to forever adhere to that Church after his views are more in accord with some other form of religion. Now, in the case I alluded to in the article you have ques- tioned, that Beecher, Tilton and Mrs. Tilton believe in the doctrines of individual sovereignty and self-ownership, I most firmly believe, as do all independent thinkers, but they had not the strength and courage to face public opinion; ‘in other words, they loved public favor more than they loved the truth, and this has led them into this terrible vortex of dishonesty, intrigue and perfidy. Had public opinion been grown to the condition to allow everybody to attend to their own private affairs, Beecher would not have lived in con- stant fear that Tilton would tell the truth about him and resorted to such unmanly methods to render Tilton’s name unpopular in order that his testimony would not be received; and they would now stand before the world honest people instead of being dyed in hypocrisy. ' Then all hail the day when society will allow every indi- vidual to attend to their own private affairs, and thrice hail the man or woman who will hold in utter contempt all attempts of society to interfere, eitherfin their own or other people’s personal matters. Yours, for truth and freedom, JULIET H. SEVERANCE, M.D., ' Milwaukee, Wis. . RAPE AND MURDER. “ RUTLAND, Vt., July 27, 187