Instruction, by Émile Munier - Public domain book illustration

Instruction, by Émile Munier
Identifier: scienceofeugenic00hadd (find matches)
Title: The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, Walter J Robinson, Charles H Melendy, Mary Ries, 1842- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Eugenics Marriage Beauty, Personal Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ct ofthe loved ones features! George Brimley says: Only conceive the passion of love blottedout from the pages of our great poets—from Chaucer, from Spencer,from Shakespeare, from Milton; what a sky without its sun wouldremain, what an earth without its verdure, its streams, and its flow-ers! And Helen Oldfield forcibly adds: What would become ofBorneo and Juliet, of the Midsummer Nights Dream? What ofthe Faerie Queene, of Shelleys songs, of Keats Endymion, ofColeridges Genevieve, of Longfellows Evangeline, of TennysonsIdylls? Something, no doubt, would be left of their beauty andsweetness, something to attract in the grand thoughts, the vivid natu-ral descriptions; but even these would lack a charm which insensiblymingles with and enhances them now. Here and there some shortlyric would hold its own, especially if wedded to fine music, but thebulk of poetry would be consigned to oblivion. By the light of lovewhen the world was young, blind Homer told the tales of Troy, the story 224
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INSTRUCTION -E. Munier At her mothers knee the child learns wisdom, the price of which is above rubies.Who loves not knowledge? Who shall railAgainst her beauty?But she is earthly, of the mind.And wisdom heavenly, of the soul. .