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marriage relation farther than this. They should<br />
consider whether their offspring will possess<br />
physical health, and mental and moral strength. But<br />
few have moved with high motives, and with<br />
elevated considerations which they could not<br />
lightly throw off--that society had claims upon<br />
them, that the weight of their family’s influence<br />
would tell in the upward or downward scale.<br />
Society is composed of families; and heads of<br />
families are responsible for the molding of society.<br />
If those who choose to enter the marriage relation<br />
without due consideration were alone to be the<br />
sufferers, then the evil would not be so great, and<br />
their sin would be comparatively small. But the<br />
misery arising from unhappy marriages is felt by<br />
the offspring of such unions. They have entailed<br />
upon them a life of living misery; and, though<br />
innocent, suffer the consequences of their parents’<br />
inconsiderate course. Men and women have no<br />
right to follow impulse, or blind passion, in their<br />
marriage relation, and then bring innocent children<br />
into the world to realize from various causes that<br />
life has but little joy, but little happiness, and is<br />
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