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194 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
An impression upon the mother, of any kind, acts
upon the child. Children are born or happy miserable,
according to the state of their mothers during preg
nancy, just as they are born healthy or diseased. Par
ticular talents, tendencies, tastes, idiosyncracies, and
affections of every kind, are impressed upon them, and
govern their future lives. The mother of Napoleon,
while carrying him, accompanied her husband in a
military campaign. The perils and achievements of
the French and Indian wars, acting upon fathers and
mothers, gave this country its crop of heroes for the
Revolution of glorious memory. The heroines of the
Revolution were the mothers of those who fought in
the war of 1812; and these again of those who vindi
cated American valor in the recent war with Mexico.
The most are extraordinary peculiarities inflicted upon
children some by temporary condition of the mother;
and there is abundant proof that this may extend to the
as well as the mind. The facts of this charac
body
ter have been denied by mere theorists, because they
can not account for them. Alas ! for what can they
account ?
O. S. Fowler, in his works on Love and Parentage,
"
and in a special work on Hereditary Descent,'' has
presented an abundance of facts to prove that moral,
mental, and physical qualities of health and disease are-
transmitted by both parents, are impressed upon the
the child
ovum in the act of impregnation, and upon
during the period of pregnancy. The practical value
of fthese facts can not be too highly estimated.
All observation shows that not only are the striking
characteristics of races transmitted, for thousands of