"No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes……" — Tennessee Claflin

"No legislation can suppress nature; all life rushes to reproduction; our procreativefaculties are matured early, while passion is strong, and judgment and self-restraint weak. We cannot alter this, but we can alter what is conventional. We can refuse to brand an act of nature as acrime, and to impute to vice what is due to ignorance."

— Tennessee Claflin

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2 Quotes by Tennessee Claflin

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Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by…

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