Marriage and parentage, education, and kindred subjects / O.S. Fowler.

  • Orson S. Fowler
Date:
1889
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    masculine constitution. The men, on the contrary, have an effeminate body ; their limbs are rounded, fat, mottled, and small, and their breasts very con- spicuous. The ancient historians describe Nero as delivered up to the most intense voluptuousness, and say that ‘ his propensities were painted on his countenance ; that he had small eyes, sunk in fat, a thick neck, a large belly, and thin legs ; that his fair hair, and his delicate, rather than majestic face, caused him to be recognised at once as effeminate.' I have, however, met with some exceptions to this rule. “ We saw in a House of Correction in Holland, some men already advanced in life, who, with an organisation otherwise favourable, had been addicted to similar disorders. They acknowledged their incapacity to resist the impe- tuosity of their propensity, and had already several times relapsed into the same vice. They were convinced that their conduct had been blameable and unbecoming ; but they begged not to be set at liberty, because if they were set free they would relapse into crime. We made the individuals who Accompanied us remark the excessive development of the cerebellum in these men.” For further striking illustrations and information on the demoralising and health-destroying influences of the sexual feelings when perverted, see “ Gall and others on the Function of the Cerebellum,” and “ Fowler on Amativeness.’f PHILOPROGENITIVENESS, ITS LOCATION AND ANALYSIS. Philoprogenitiveness is the next faculty exercised in the social relations. It is located immediately above the middle of the cerebellum, from which it is separated by a small membrane, called the tentorium, directly under the centre of the occipital bone. In mankind, the posterior lobes of both hemi- spheres are extended beyond the cerebellum, which is universally developed directly at the sides underneath the faculty of Philoprogenitiveness. It will give a roundness and prominence to the back portion of the head, in the region of this organ, in all those heads wherein it is fully developed. Thus- having explained its location in such a manner that all can decide upon it foi themselves, in a general manner, we enter next upon a description of its function. The precise meaning of the term Philoprogenitiveness is the love wofipring, It is the true and only source of paternal love ; consequently this faculty, or its influence, is extremely necessary to the perfection of our social state and the proper preservation of our children. It gives instinctive r°rfi 01] a we,a^ au^ helpless offspring, and is expressly adapted to the per- fectly dependent condition of the infant and child. mf>rUa/aCt s^ows that this faculty is entirely distinct from any other is drnlS°n,und.18 wholly spontaneous in its action, is, that this feeling reouirino- tL<fna increasc?din proportion as the object is weak and destitute, requiring the more care and solicitude. we examino W6 this peculiar characteristic of the mind, when necessitv and the exercise of this organ. Of how much little trifles and oft- \ ^18 -m Prom?ting the performance of those thousand the comfort’ but n,f,eU an7u?^1”“ services, demanded by regard, not only for a rnatterof mere5ft S® new-boru infaut 5 a^ not done coldly, as maternal love. y’ but Wlt 1 gentleness and pleasure, caused by fond •mothers durin^thefr-stat this faculty more active and excitable in £JoclXtelvdenenl Tf8 ^ delivei7’ when the situation of the infant n Lrne°when its anneamm^ demanding, in fact, unremitting attention, and at from the influence of Phi loi’rf° bu'.from inviting caresses or affection (asido dislike. * 1 hnoprogemtiveness), prompts to feelings of disgust and
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