ABSTRACT
Prophecy is an essential part of the physician’s art. In practice it is called prognosis—forecasting what the future has in store for the patient. Habituated to making such estimates, he is tempted to try his hand in other fields. Man and woman are identical in their origin, genesis and destiny. They have one purpose—to reproduce their kind. Subduing the earth is incidental and contributory, that their descendants may have a propitious and pleasant place in which to propagate. To promote this purpose man secretes one specific element, woman the other. All other differences are minor and inconsequential. The soil is more important than the seed. The attitude toward marriage which makes divorce a common, everyday occurrence, accepted by society, quasi-recognized by the Church and condemned only by the conservative has much in its favor, and more in its disfavor. Society, after all, reduces itself to the family, and a family is the only justification for marriage.
