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The advice which I am, in the next place, about to
give, is, indeed, no other than what hath been given by those
who have undertaken this argument before me. You will
ask me what is that? It is this: that no man keep company with his wife for issue's sake but when he is sober,
having drunk either no wine, or at least not such a quantity as to distemper him; for they usually prove winebibbers and drunkards, whose parents begot them when
they were drunk. Wherefore Diogenes said to a stripling
somewhat crack-brained and half-witted: Surely, young
man, thy father begot thee when he was drunk. Let this
suffice to be spoken concerning the procreation of children;
and let us pass thence to their education.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 1.
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