Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of SexMcIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
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Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex
McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Sex
Woman's demand for political equality is sometimes used as an excuse
to lessen her dignity and her place in society. People who do this are
of the same type as those before whom Sex cannot be discussed
intelligently because they do not realize the sacredness of Sex. They
are a remnant of the ages which have passed and which have left their
mark, in the idea of a half-sexed God, the "He," the spouseless Father
who brought forth the visible universe apparently without co-operation
with the Female Principle. This type of person prates much about the
dangers of race-suicide, meaning thereby the increasing tendency to
childlessness and not as should be taken into account the death rate
among children who are born of diseased and unfit parents and brought
into existence without the necessary conditions of sanitation, food
and care.
Our national Eugenic societies are hampered by false ideas of what
constitutes morality, being bound to uphold the tradition that the
child that is born of married parents, no matter how diseased in body
and deficient in mind, is better-born than is the offspring of
unmarried parents, even though the latter may be a model of physical
health and mental efficiency. Eugenics will remain limited in scope
until such time as the entire world adopts "in spirit and in truth"
the recent action of the European governments, and recognizes the
legitimacy of all children however born.
And although the action of the European governments was born of
nothing more humane than a war expediency in order that more soldiers
might be bred, yet the effect of such a course will benefit the human
race. It has at least set a precedent, and will in time be extended to
all children born out of wedlock and will wipe out forever the cruel
and unjust stigma that has attached to the child of unmarried parents.
Thus it will be seen that even war has its good results, and although
it seems a terrible price to pay for even so badly a needed reform as
this, Humanity has always paid dearly for its willful blindness. It
certainly should be evident to any sane mind that every child that is
born into this world has a moral and a legal right to be here.
Whatever may be said for or against parents, it is wicked stupidity to
brand an innocent child with the epithet "illegitimate." The lowest
animal has a right to be born. Many a beautiful and innocent child is
denied that right.
If it has taken one of the most bloody wars in history to establish
the right of birth, even so the struggle will not have been in vain,
because this right, once established in the hearts of all Humanity,
will forever do away with warfare. No doubt this assertion will sound
far-fetched to many, but the future will see the vindication of this
belief.
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