Searchlights On Health The Science Of Eugenics

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There is a charm in opening manhood which has commended itself to the imagination in every age. The undefined hopes and promises of the future-the dawning strength of intellect-the vigorous flow of passion-the very exchange of home ties and protected joys for free and manly pleasures, give to this period an interest and excitement unfelt, perhaps, at any other.

A Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood Advice to Maiden, Wife and Mother Love, Courtship, and Marriage. This book was good in the twenties it is still good today. A must read.

"Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the time when body and mind will both be adequately cared for, as a diffusion of the belief that the preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Men's habitual words and acts imply that they are at liberty to treat their bodies as they please. Disorder entailed by disobedience to nature's dictates they regard as grievances, not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. Though the evil consequences inflicted on their descendents and on future generations are often as great as those caused by crime, they do not think themselves in any degree criminal. "

Benjamin Grant Jefferis (1851-? ) was the coauthor of: Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners (1895) and Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics (1919) with J. L. Nichols, and The Household Guide with J. L. Nichols and Mrs. J. L. Nichols.