Why the race should have ceased through Nature’s laws.

The freaks of Earth were actual, and led

Earthly men’s lives; horror, if they had bred,

As they might have but for good Nature’s grace!

She, guardian of the purity of race,

Rejecting them from the kind, by her ban

Of Childlessness, saved the descent of Man!

Nature works marvels; many are combined,

When she plants, and bars trespass on, a kind.

First, long experiments will have been tried