The Law of Sex: Being an Exposition of the Natural Law by which the Sex of Offspring is Controlled in Man and the Lower Animals. And Giving the Solution of Various Social Problems. With Forty Illustrative PortraitsJ. & A. Churchill, 1883 - 276 σελίδες |
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activity animals Aristotle average balance born boys brain causes cent cerebral cerebrum chapter character chiefly cholera colour constitution Darwin determine the sex effect electricity equal equilibrium evidence excess of daughters excess of females excess of male fact father favour force gemmules genius girls Girou habits hair heredity human husband hypothesis indicates individual inequality inferior influence inheritance instances Junius Brutus Booth law of sex less light lymphatic male births male excess marriage married MEDICAL ment mental mind moral mother mulattoes musical temperament Natural Selection Nature nearly nerves nervous system nose nutritive system observation offspring organization Origin of Species ovum Pangenesis parents parthenogenesis physical vigour predominance preponderance principle probably produce proportion qualities question R. B. Sheridan race reproductive result says sexual sons species statistics sterility superiority sure temperament tendency tion truth vital W. R. Greg whole wife woman women
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Σελίδα 86 - It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race ; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Σελίδα 205 - Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Σελίδα 87 - Hence the Church, having first captured all the gentle natures and condemned them to celibacy, made another sweep of her huge nets, this time fishing in stirring waters, to catch those who were the most fearless, truthseeking, and intelligent, in their modes of thought, and therefore the most suitable parents of a high civilization, and put a strong check, if not a direct stop, to their progeny.
Σελίδα 205 - ... images of his predecessors, but he did not seek them. From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support; there is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained, no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support. His great works were performed under discountenance, and; in blindness ; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it...
Σελίδα 80 - According to this hypothesis, every unit or cell of the body throws off gemmules or undeveloped atoms, which are transmitted to the offspring of both sexes, and are multiplied by self-division. They may remain undeveloped during the early years of life or during successive generations; their development into units or cells, like those from which they were derived, depending on their affinity for, and union with, other units or cells previously developed in the due order of growth.
Σελίδα 205 - Paradise Lost ;" a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Σελίδα 72 - ... that which enables the agriculturist not only to modify the character of his flock, but to change it altogether. It is the magician's wand, by means of which he may summon into life whatever form and mould he pleases.
Σελίδα 205 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.
Σελίδα 71 - ... more remote ancestor ; why a peculiarity is often transmitted from one sex to both sexes, or to one sex alone, more commonly but not exclusively to the like sex.