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The sac full of suspicious letters which I bore on my shoulder was not so light as I had thought, but the kick of the Briouse pinard thrust me forward at a good clip. The road was absolutely deserted; the night hung loosely around it, here and there tattered by attempting moonbeams. We talked, the older and I, of strange subjects. As I suspected, he had been not always a gendarme.
Moreover the pinard was excellent. "Come on! Arrange yourselves!" the bull-neck cried hoarsely as the five of us were lighting up; and we joined the line of fellow-prisoners with their breads and spoons, gaping, belching, trumpeting fraternally, by the doorway. "Tout le monde en haut!" this planton roared. This would be about ten thirty. I am fairly certain that I went on afternoon promenade.
There is a mistake here, unless Pinard deliberately desires to place himself, like Tolstoy, in opposition to current civilized morality. So far from the infant having any "imprescriptible right to life," even the adult has, in human societies, no such inalienable right, and very much less the foetus, which is not strictly a human being at all.
Pinard, another Committee-commissioner, ransoms, steals off into the country and himself kills, through preference, women and children. Naturally, the three bands which operate along with them, or under their orders, comprise only men of their species.
"Of all human instincts," Pinard has said, "that of reproduction is the only one which remains in the primitive condition and has received no education. We procreate to-day as they procreated in the Stone Age. The most important act in the life of man, the sublimest of all acts since it is that of his reproduction, man accomplishes to-day with as much carelessness as in the age of the cave-man."
And though Pinard himself, as the founder of puericulture, has greatly contributed to call attention to the vast destinies that hang on the act of procreation, there still remains a lamentable amount of truth in this statement.
From prolonged observations on the pregnant women of all classes Pinard has shown conclusively that women who rest during pregnancy have finer children than women who do not rest. Letourneux has studied the question whether repose during pregnancy is necessary for women whose professional work is only slightly fatiguing.
The secretary of State entered and showed the letters-patent. "If we are not all Catholics," said the little king, "Pinard will throw those papers into the fire. But we are all Catholics here, I think," he continued, casting his somewhat haughty eyes over the company. "Yes, sire," replied Christophe, bending his injured knees with difficulty, and kissing the hand which the king held out to him.
Everywhere the men are conveyed in the camions, and are thus spared the fatigue which would otherwise be caused by the intense heat and the white dust. There are perhaps only two things that can in any way upset the perfect indifference to difficulties of the French trooper: he hates to walk, and he refuses to be deprived of his pinard.
This was a sound instinct, for it is now recognized as an extremely important part of puericulture that a woman should rest at all events during the latter part of pregnancy; see, e.g., Pinard, Gazette des Hôpitaux, November 28, 1895, and Annales de Gynécologie, August, 1898. Griffith Wilkin, British Medical Journal, April 8, 1905. Weininger, Geschlecht und Charakter, p. 107.
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