CO-EDUCATION.
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and educated classes have smaller families than the lower and uneducated is, that the former criminally prevent or destroy increase. The pulpit,* as well as the medical press, has cried out against this enormity. That a disposition to do this thing exists, and is often carried into effect, is not to be denied, and cannot he too strongly condemned. On the other hand, it should be proclaimed, to the credit and honor of our cultivated women, and as a reproach to the identical education of the sexes, that many of them hear in silence the accusation of self-tampering, who are denied the oft-prayed-for trial, blessing, and responsibility of offspring. As a matter of personal experience, my advice has been much more frequently and earnestly sought by those of our best classes who desired to know how to obtain, than by those who wished to escape, the offices of maternity.
The experiment of the identical co-education of the sexes has been set on foot by some of our Western colleges. It has not yet
* Vid. a pamphlet by the Rev. Dr. Todd.