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"But why that ?" I asked.
"Oh! the most astonishing thing is that no one is willing to see this thing, evident as it is, which the doctors must understand, but which they take good care not to do.

Man does not wish to know the law of nature,--children.

But children are born and become an embarrassment.
Then man devises means of avoiding this embarrassment.

We have not yet reached the low level of Europe, nor Paris, nor the 'system of two children,' nor Mahomet.