Marriage and Parentage and the Sanitary and Physiological Laws for the Production of Children of Finer Health and Greater AbilityM. L. Holbrook, 1882 - 185 páginas |
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Página 12 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Página 20 - ... the feelings. Added to the purely physical elements of it, are first to be noticed those highly complex impressions produced by personal beauty; around which are aggregated a variety of pleasurable ideas, not in themselves amatory, but which have an organized relation to the amatory feeling.
Página 32 - If Eric is in robust health, and has slept well, and is at the top of his condition, and thirty years old, at his departure from Greenland, he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric, and put in a stronger and bolder man...
Página 98 - Duncan," they produce many more children. The children, moreover, that are born by mothers during the prime of life are heavier and larger, and therefore probably more vigorous, than those born at other periods. Thus the reckless, degraded, and often vicious members of society, tend to increase at a quicker rate than the provident and generally virtuous members.
Página 91 - There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race...
Página 90 - With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment.
Página 104 - Natural selection follows from the struggle for existence ; and this from a rapid rate of increase. It is impossible not to regret bitterly, but whether wisely is another question, the rate at which man tends to increase ; for this leads in barbarous tribes to infanticide and many other evils, and in civilised nations to abject poverty, celibacy, and to the late marriages of the prudent. But as man suffers from the same physical...
Página 25 - ... self, which shall round out one's being and form a perfect, symmetrical whole. As in music it is not contiguous notes which combine to form chords, but those separated from each other, as a first, and a third, and a fifth ; so we produce social and domestic harmony by associating graduated differences. Two persons may be ' too much alike to agree.' They crowd each other, for ' two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
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