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Zola, in his novel "Fecundity," maintains that large sections of people have declared death to the child, have conspired against the birth of the child, a very horrible picture indeed, yet the conspiracy entered into by civilization against the growth and making of character seems to me far more terrible and disastrous, because of the slow and gradual destruction of its latent qualities and traits and the stupefying and crippling effect thereof upon its social well-being.
At sunrise the waves are greasy and viscous, replete with life that is fermenting rapidly. For a space of hundreds of leagues the salt ocean around them is like milk. The fecundity of these fishy masses was placing the world in danger. Each individual could produce up to seventy thousand eggs.
Upon this young actor's memory would be forever seared the information that the conger eel lays fifteen million eggs at one time and that the inhabitants of Upper Burmah have quaint native pastimes. These things would stay with him, but they were unimportant. Even the prodigal fecundity of the conger eel left him cold.
They are marching to the conquest of the sacred cabbage, the emblem of matrimonial fecundity, and this besotted drunkard is the only man who can put his hand upon the symbolical plant. Therein, doubtless, is a mystery anterior to Christianity, a mystery that reminds one of the festival of the Saturnalia or some ancient Bacchanalian revel.
We now come to the third and most curious day of the nuptials, which is still strictly observed. As the ceremony of the livrées is the symbol of taking possession of the heart and home of the bride, that of the chou is the type of the fecundity of marriage.
One of the shrewdest observers in contemporary Germany himself a distinguished Semite commented on this decisive fact as follows: "Within ten years Germany will contain seventy million inhabitants, and in the torrent of her fecundity will drown anemic and exhausted France.... The French nation is dying of exhaustion.
It was not only in religious questions and by their philosopho- theologians that the middle ages, before the Renaissance, displayed their activity and fecundity. In literature and in art, in history and in poesy, in architecture and in sculpture, they had produced great and beautiful works, which were quite worthy of surviving, and have, in fact, survived the period of their creation.
If a man is killed in a duel, he is killed as many a one has been killed; but it is a sad thing for a man to lie down and die; to bleed to death, because he has not fortitude enough to sear the wound, or even to stitch it up. I cannot but pause a moment to admire the fecundity of fancy, and choice of language, which in this instance, and, indeed, on almost all occasions, he displayed.
The Calabrian doctors prescribed the dance as a remedy for the hysteric affections which are common among the women of their country; and the Arabs use a somewhat similar recipe for the highbred mares, whose too lively temperament hinders their fecundity. 'Dull as a dancer' is a familiar proverb at the theatre.
Let them renounce, then, the theory of Malthus, and stop declaiming against the excessive fecundity of marriage. They did not stop there: soon a new mechanical improvement enabled a single worker to do the work that formerly occupied four. A new three-fourths reduction of manual work: in all, a reduction of human labor by fifteen-sixteenths.
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