Download or read book The Empire of the Mother Over the Character and Destiny of the Race (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Clarke Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Empire of the Mother Over the Character and Destiny of the Race The following pages relate to the first, or pre-natal state. Efforts, whose object is to secure to man a healthy and vigorous body, and a pure and noble soul, generally refer to man in his second or post natal state. Religions generally look at man with reference to his third or disembodied state. Systems of Education, of Government, and Religion, have assumed that nothing can be done for human beings, to save them from physical disease and suffering, from vice and crime, and from tendencies to evil, previous to birth. Among Ministers of Religion, Legislators, and Rulers; among Poets and Orators, and those who, in all ages and nations, have been received as divinely commissioned and sent to secure to man a healthy body, a strong and comprehensive intellect, a pure and loving heart, a just and noble character, and a happy destiny, and to save the world, no regard has been paid to what is done, or might and must be done for man, for good or evil, before he is born. But as soon as he is born, then man becomes an object of inter est to par\ents, teachers, and reformers, and to social, commercial. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.