THE GUARANTEE OF SAFETY IN THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.
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- 8 December 1906
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. XLVII (23) , 1887-1889
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1906.25210230023001f
Abstract
The most important function of the human body, biologically, is reproduction. Behind this function the Creator placed a dominating, imperative, sexual impulse to insure its activity. This is the animate magnet which attracts and mates the opposite sexes. Through this magnetic force marriage came to be and must forever remain the most sacred and important institution in human society. The supreme importance of woman in these relations is apparent when we consider her office in prenatal existence; her roll as the nourishing mother; her place as the very foundation stone of every hearth and home, and her life as the vital center about which cluster families and tribes and nations. Around the sexual life of woman are grouped the most potential factors in the perpetuity, development, and highest good of the race, physically, morally and mentally. Around the sexual life of woman also are grouped some of the most adverseKeywords
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