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kes in different types of people. This has been modified, added to and re-written by many later authors, and u

interesting themes of these very early writers is a recognition and a description of the characteristics of the best and most perfect type of woman, the "Padmini." In addition to describing fully

y than we do, and he describes how for the sacred union serious preparation of beauty should be made-a room or natural arbour decked with flowers; and for the supreme expression of love (that is the love between a pair each of the highest and most perfect type), this should take place in the light of day and not the darkness of the night. Even in our present degraded civilization the

robably for some time to come be difficult for those who desire such a profound return to natural rectitude, to obtain the necessary security of seclusion amid beautiful surroundings. T

eautiful in mind and body, the child ardently desired by them, whose coming is prepared with every beauty which it is in their power to obtain, is often well worth all the outlay of love and thought. Certainly among those pers

is one of vital consequences to the child-to-be. Scientific proof of this will be, of course, extraordinarily difficult to discover, but indirectly there do appear to be some actual data in favour o

hich there figure nine thousand idiots ... this author has proved that there are two acute annual maximum periods for the conception of idiots (calculated from nine months before birth) the perio

possible in most women at almost any time during the years of potential motherhood, yet there do appear to be several factors which lead to the potential fertility of a woman varying very much from time to time. Some women, for instance, appear to be liable to conceive only for a certain number of days in each month, and these are in general the two or three days immediately following the monthly period and the day or two immediately before.

into wild and inspiring solitudes, may result as desired in the entry of the sperm into the womb of the woman, and ye

ts, that knowledge of the actual processes of our own fertilization and conception and of the extent of the significance to the future generations of th

und in February and March for most of the countries in the northern hemisphere, the actual maximum of births being from the 15th February to the 15th March, and thus indicating that the maximum of conceptions took place between the 5th May and the 5th June. Richet quotes Bertillon as having established the fact that this maximum of conceptions does not depend on the chan

riodes de l'année. Par suite d'une ancestrale prédisposition, au moment du printemps, chez la femme, comme chez la plupart des animaux, mais

to produce children according to the season is, to some extent, altered by the conscious and deliberate control

ime for a baby to be born, the thoughtful mother-to-be will try, other things being equal, to arrange that its birth should take place then, both for her own sake and for that of the child. The weeks of recovery after the strain of the birth are more easily and happily

g period of warmth and protection within its mother, and when in a month or two it is able to kick a

vital magic then than they can do in any succeeding days or weeks. Instinctively, one would like to feel that this is so. Indeed it will take much to disprove it, although it is a theme which it is at present impossible to prove, a

ful conditions, and deliberately place themselves through their love at the service of God and humanity in the creation of the next generation, must give a vitalizing and joyous memory t