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and a violation of this law is attended with
great evils. I give, also, what seem to be the facts in
the nature of man ; but I can not undertake to recon
cile the teachings of nature with the laws of society.
They are everywhere at variance, and all our miseries
come out of these discords.
The influence of the organ of Amativeness stimulates
the action of the secreting or sperm-preparing organs,
the testicles. The presence of the seminal fluid in the
seminal vesicles, reacts upon the brain, and the mind
glows with voluptuous
ideas. Under their influence
men are ever gallant, kind, attentive, and loving to wo
men ; ever seeking their favors ; ever pressing their
suit. It is the part of woman to accept or repulse ; to
grant or refuse. It is her right to reign a passional
queen ; to say, " thus far shalt thou come, and no
farther." It is for her nature to decide both whom she
will admit to her embraces, and when ; and there is no
despotism upon this earth so infernal as that which
compels a woman to submit to the embraces of a man
she does not love ; or to receive even these, when her
nature does not require them, and when she can not
partake in the sexual embrace without injury to herself,
and danger to her offspring.
On this point I will speak. If a woman has any
right in this world, it is the right to herself; and if
there is any thing in this world she has a right to de
cide, it is who shall be the father of her children. She
has an equal right to decide whether she will have
children, and to choose the time for having them.
This is a law of nature, respected throughout the
animal kingdom. The female everywhere refuses