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are more frequently given to the children than those
which are indulged and gratified. Therefore it is
most important that a woman who ever hopes to
become a mother should not create a habit, appetite
or taste which, by its indulgence, will harm her child
physically, or, by its suppression, will harm it mentally.
The woman who fills her system with nicotine
while carrying a child under her heart could not
expect to give that child a good constitution.
The woman who craved cigarettes continually,
and resisted, would give the child that craving.
Hundreds of young girls think a surreptitious cigarette is "great fun."
If it ends at that, as it does in the majority of cases,
no harm is done. It does not pay in this world to be
too strait-laced, or, as a bright woman expressed it, "to
be always tightly buttoned up." But it does pay to so
control our habits, appetites and customs that we are
masters, and that our minds and bodies are kept clean,
wholesome and well poised; and to so live that our
children will receive only the best influence for their
earthly portion of the incarnation to which we call
them.
Upon the condition of the mind of the mother
depends greatly the kind of spiritual ego she calls
from space for re-birth. To that ego are added the
physical inheritance from the parents and ancestors
and the prenatal influences of the mother.
Every new-born child is, therefore, a wonderfully
composite creature, but the mother who understands
the law of prenatal influence, and adds to it a knowledge of what can be done by the right training of the human plant, as Luther Burbank expresses it in his
