The History of Human Marriage, Volume 2

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Macmillan, 1922
 

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Page 23 - Thus, round the physical feeling forming the nucleus of the whole, are gathered the feelings produced by personal beauty, that constituting simple attachment, those of reverence, of love of approbation, of self-esteem, of property, of love of freedom, of sympathy. These, all greatly exalted, and severally tending to reflect their excitements on one another, unite to form the mental state we call love.
Page 416 - And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Page 188 - ... agree that but one adult male is seen in a band ; when the young male grows up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest, by killing and driving out the others, establishes himself as the head of the community.
Page 151 - And that no reservation or prohibition, God's law except, shall trouble or impeach any marriage without the Levitical degrees.
Page 20 - ... incessant wars between all barbarous nations. The hordes would thus be exposed to slightly different conditions and habits of life, and would sooner or later come to differ in some small degree. As soon as this occurred, each isolated tribe would form for itself a slightly different standard of beauty ; and then unconscious selection would come into action through the more powerful and leading men preferring certain women to others. Thus the differences between the tribes, at first very slight,...
Page 193 - This I take to be the fundamental cause of the exogamous prohibitions. Persons who have been living closely together from childhood are as a rule near relatives. Hence their aversion to sexual relations with one another displays itself in custom and law as a prohibition of intercourse between near kin.
Page 333 - The power which we have over our children is peculiar to Roman citizens ; for there are no other nations possessing the same power over their children as we have over ours.
Page 283 - The father chooses a full-grown woman as a wife for his young son. " In the superior age of the bride," says Colonel Macpherson, " is seen but a proof of the supremacy of the paternal authority amongst this singular people. The parents obtain in the wives of their sons during the years of their boyhood very valuable domestic servants, and their selections are avowedly made with a view to utility in this...
Page 14 - Crawfurd, op. cit. i. 23. sidering that an aesthetic feeling is essentially disinterested whereas sexual love is the very reverse. Whatever be the explanation of this combination of tendencies, it is obvious that the bodily qualities which are deemed beautiful are useful to the species, and the part they play as sexual stimulants may consequently be traced to the influence of natural selection. They are expressions of vitality, vigour, and health, or are closely connected with propagation. The stimulating...
Page 490 - May a male embryo enter thy womb, as an arrow the quiver; may a man be born here, a son after ten months.

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