Excerpt from Aristotle's Master-Piece, Completed: In Two PartsWhen a young couple is married, they naturally desire children, and th those means that nature has appointed to that end, but, notwithstanding their endeavours, they must know that the success of all depends on a blessing of the Lord, not only so, but the sex'whether male or female, is from his dispoi sal also though it cannot be denied, but se condary causes have in¿uence therein, especial ly two - First the genteial humor, which is brought by the arteria pree paraentes to the testes in form of blood, and there elaborated into seed by the seminifical faculty residing in them, to which may be added, the desire of coition, which fires the imagination with nu usual fancies, and by the sight of brisk char min beauty, may soon in¿ame the appetite, but 5' nature be enfeebled, such meats must be eaten as will conduce to the affording such ali ment as makes the seed abound, and restores the decays of nature, that the faculties may freely operate, and remove impediments oh-i structing the procreation of children.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.