life we perceive that there is the germ of life proceeding from the male deposited in the female, who protects it, warms it, and nourishes it from her own life.
In general we may say that the process of reproduction is carried on in the vegetable kingdom by the planting of the seed in the earth as a mother, and that a similar process is carried on in the animal kingdom by a distinctly indicated male and a distinctly indicated female. The germ of life contained in the seed of the plant or animal would seem to contain what we have called the soul-form, a spiritual something capable of reproducing itself in a new individual of the same species. This soul-form is from the father, and the body which clothes it from the mother.
We are perfectly aware that scientific men will contest our position, insisting that both mother and father contribute equally to the offspring. We admit that they do so in a sense and yet we insist that there is a difference in their contribution. It is the father's soul-life that is perpetuated or reproduced. The mother loses her name in a human family, and her identity is merged into the family of the male.
