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From Wm, Lloyd Garrison, Boston.~ On a careful examination of Dr. Cowan sS cience of aN ew Life I am prepared to give it my very cordial approval, and to wish that it might be mthe possession of the two large classes for whose guidance and happiness it was written, namely, all who are married, and particularly those who contemplate marriage ,not excepting those who do not intend or are not likely to marry, but who cannot fail to be enlightened and aided by its teaching. It deserves to be in every family, and read and pondered, as closely relating to the highest moral and physical well-being of nil its members. With here and there an opinion or a rule that may be questionable, it is nevertheless a volume admirable for the purity of its tone and purpose, unquestionably sound in its hygienic directions and physiological averments, and extremely valuable in the lessons it inculcates. The people perish for lack of knowledge is an ancient declaration, almost as applicable now as it was when first uttered; and it is largely owing to a profound ignorance of the law of birth and parentage, and the laws of our physical organization generally, that the lusts of the flesh have gained such widespread ascendancy that millions of the human race are suffering both bodily and mental depravation, that the marriage relation has been so fearfully violated, and that licentiousness and foul disease are inflicting the very life-blood of the people. The essential remedy for these great evils is to be found in Dr. Cowan swork; therefore, may it be circulated fnr and wide. Yours, for suffering humanity, WM. LLOYD GARRISON. [F rom the Round Table, New York.~ The dedication of Dr. Cowan sbook To all theM arried, but particularly to those who contemplate Marriage sufficiently indicates its scope and purpose. It is an earnest plea for temperance in. all things, for the subjection of the
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