Steering scion to a realization of such contours, crags and carbuncles pursuant of especial quintessence presupposes a farrago of moil, remuneration languishing in arrears, properly enough concomitant to profound disillusionment, and a pathetic douceur of the occasional sensibility of pygmalion enamoration. Wherefore lovers’ ubiquitous desideration of spawn, evinced by an inclemently burgeoning population? For though the quotidian jeremiads of the burthens of rearing issue from every quarter, yet at least one party to the requisite intromission must maintain a devotion to the mission for a goodly while, as a protracted interregnum ‘twixt having first substantively set upon the task, and consummation, wherein seemingly nothing is garnered but an evanescent pleasure, must surely be trooped through by only the veracious votaries of the prospectus, actuated by a stolid adherence to principles whereof. 

How are we to reconcile the antipodal duplicity of dispositions and sentiments of the ménage subsisting ante/postgestatio? It cannot be that panglossian prolepses inveighled them, for, as I just noted, the plangeant rattles of those thus fettered ineluctably irrumate the ingenuous yearnings of precocious shoots adventitiously grafting onto that which they fancy shall elicit vestigial graft pursuant of a mindless propagation whence a welter of contretemps agglomerate unto demotic insupportable insupporability, which must certainly deracinate from mortification.  

Inasmuch as they are surfeited of harrowing forebodings, notwithstanding, do they feel it an over-riding duty. This too is untenable, for children demonstrably worsen the aggregate joie de vivre, particularly for those of the first degree, viz. those who afflicted themselves, though we shall collectively pay an indemnity, as the ramifications present themselves flagrante delicto in a chimera of declensions; already the presagements are patent. I cannot conceive any but the most preternaturally daft or malevolent would, appreciating this, stick fast to such a course bereft of a paramount inducement. 

Hence, I am left with but two plausible exigencies: the indiscriminate clinging to mere tradition, without the slightest cogitation upon merit ascribed whereof; or the uxorious acquiescence to atavistic proclivities, though not of carnal varieties, for it is inconceivable such parochial delectations could decisively entice any but the most licentious of rakes and demireps, who tend to sufficiently brook against sproutings anyhow. 

This duly acceded, an appraisal of virtue must descry but one of the following duad, if forsooth they can rightly be distinguished as such: sedulity which bids defiance against unremitting and assured flagellation, or alacritous assumption of all that which nature commissions. 

If any parents cares to heed this importunate accoutrings of Caliban’s mirror, whither I imagine they are loath to open an interstice, to let its rays of revelation illumine, I would prescribe an ex post facto rectification of the execrable error of dissemination; infants and adolescents can facilely be overpowered, and teenagers are wont to maunder about somnolently. Vae Victus!