The Sexual Instinct: Its Use and Dangers as Affecting Heredity and Morals : Essentials to the Welfare of the Individual and the Future of the Race

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E. B. Treat & Company, 1898 - 436 Seiten

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Seite 118 - O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
Seite 261 - ... whosoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall unlawfully administer to her, or cause to be taken by her, any poison or other noxious thine, or shall unlawfully use auy instrument, or other means whatsoever, with the like intent, shall be guilty of felony...
Seite 198 - That unhappy being whose very name it is a shame to speak; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection, and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex, and doomed, for the most part, to disease and...
Seite 35 - My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Seite 280 - To extinguish the first spark of life is a crime of the same nature, both against our Maker and society, as to destroy an infant, a child, or a man...
Seite 25 - Very few young men have the power of negation in any great degree at first. It increases with the increase of confidence, and with the experience of those inconveniences which result from the absence of this virtue. Every young man must be exposed to temptation : he cannot learn the ways of men without being witness to their vices. If you attempt to preserve him from danger by keeping him out of the way of it, you render him quite unfit for any style of life in which he may be placed. The great point...
Seite 296 - Is it too much to say that the one motive of organic Nature was to make Mothers ? It is at least certain that this was the chief thing she did.
Seite 96 - My warning is : let us beware lest we give even a silent sanction to that against which I am sure, on even the lowest grounds that we can take, we should resolutely set our face and raise our voice.
Seite 423 - Nothing is so prone to contaminate — under certain circumstances, even to exhaust — the source of all noble and ideal sentiments, which arise of themselves from a normally developing sexual instinct, as the practice of masturbation in early years. It despoils the unfolding bud of perfume and beauty, and leaves behind only the coarse, animal desire for sexual satisfaction.
Seite 296 - ... find old ideas abandoned and higher models coming to the front. And when you get to the top you find the last great act was but to present to the world a physiologically perfect type. It is a fact which no human Mother can regard without awe, which no man can realize without a new reverence for...

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