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192 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
dren. Women who have neither passion nor pleasure
are less liable to abortion from this cause than others ;
and if procuring abortion be a crime, is it less so when
done in this mode, and without any proper motive ?
Violent exercise of the body, or violent passions of
the mind, tend to abortion and miscarriage. Women
of weak constitutions should carefully avoid both.
Errors of diet, exhausting labors, and cares, bring on
abortions and miscarriages. They use up the stock of
vitality, or the organic force which should go to the
fcetus. It dies, and is expelled. So perish thousands
of unborn infants; and as care and poverty increase in
our great cities,
children.
so increase the number of still-born
The use of drugs and the lancet is a prolific cause.
Whatever depresses or deranges the vital functions may
be a cause of abortion. Blood-letting and drug poison
do both. There is no doubt that thousands of infant
ing
germs are poisoned in the uterus by allopathic medica
tion, while still more are born diseased from the same
cause. The doctor poisons the blood of the mother,
and from this the blood of the child draws its nourish
ment.
When abortion is willfully procured, it is by
one of
two methods—
drug poisoning or a surgical operation.
In the former the mother is poisoned, sometimes fatally,
in the effort to expel the child. The surgical method,
that of rupturing the membranes, is the simplest meth
od, and one accompanied with the minimum amount of
danger.
In a proper social, mental, and physical condition, I
see no reason why any woman should ever desire to