Marriage and Heredity: A View of Psychological EvolutionWard and Downey, 1903 - 231 páginas |
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Página 151 - But I can't read it over; and God knows what contradictions it may contain. If I am sincere with myself (but I fear one lies more to one's self than to any one else), every page should confute, refute, and utterly abjure its predecessor.
Página 230 - Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them, the light which they can shed on the wonderful questions, What we are ? and Whither we tend ? We do not wish to be deceived. Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea ; — but from what port did we sail ? Who knows ? Or to what port are we bound ? Who knows ? There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves, whom we speak as we...
Página 2 - ... over other parts of the organic world. But from the moment that his body became stationary, his mind would become subject to those very influences from which his body had escaped ; every slight variation in his mental and moral nature which should enable him better to guard against adverse circumstances, and combine for mutual comfort and...
Página 202 - Charles, as you know, is in the situation of one who is by and by to become a father. Under these circumstances, he has fallen under the too common temptation of selfish love, and a desire to wait upon and cultivate an exclusive intimacy with the woman who was to bear a child through him. This is an insidious temptation, very apt to attack people under such circumstances; but it must nevertheless be struggled against.
Página 142 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 201 - Finally, they find in practice a strong tendency toward what they call "selfish love" — that is to say, the attachment of two persons to each other, and their desire to be true to each other ; and there are here and there in their publications signs that there has been suffering among their young people on this account. They rebuke this propensity, however, as selfish and sinful, and break it down rigorously III.
Página 2 - From the time, therefore, when the social and sympathetic feelings came into active operation, and the intellectual and moral faculties became fairly developed, man would cease to be influenced by
Página 213 - As monogamy is likely to be raised in character by a public sentiment requiring that the legal bond shall not be entered into unless it represents the natural bond ; so, perhaps, it may be that maintenance of the legal bond will come to be held improper if the natural bond ceases.
Página 86 - Quel monstre est-ce, que cette goûte de semence dequoy nous sommes produits porte en soy les impressions, non de la forme corporelle seulement ,mais des pensemens et des inclinations de nos pères ? Cette goûte d'eau, où loge elle ce nombre infiny de formes...
Página 117 - ... thinks to outweigh the iniquities of the week by the sanctimonious observance of the Sabbath. Such an one is not likely to beget children of sound moral constitution ; and for him to hope to found a family which shall last is little better than to hope to build on quicksand a house which shall stand. The deterioration of nature which he has acquired will, unless a healthier female influence chance to countervail it, be transmitted as an evil heritage to his children, and show itself in some form...