B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health — Amativeness or Connubial Love (1919)
“ If the Deity had seen fit to bring every member of the human family into being by a direct act of creative power, without the agency of parents, the present wise and benevolent arrangements of husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighbors, would have been superseded, and all opportunities for exercising parental and connubial love, in which so much enjoyment is taken, cut off. ”
