The child of circumstance : the mystery of the unborn / by Albert Wilson.

  • Albert Wilson
Date:
1928
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    the pathological condition. I expect a syphilitic taint in a father or grandparent is a not infrequent cause. The Government of Holland is devoting considerable attention to this question. As they do not resort to capital punishment, they are studying how to deal with the psychopaths, and other perverts, who occupy the ambiguous position of being responsible lunatics or irresponsible criminals—a curious contradiction in terms. The late Thomas Holmes, the police-court missionary in London, testified to Holland being in advance of other countries in caring for juvenile criminals and tramps. This was in the year 1911. I visited their schools, reformatories, and colonies some time before that date,’ and was greatly impressed with the superiority of their methods. Causes of Sex Anomalies. The fans ct origo of sadism and sexual perversion may partly depend on some poisonous secretion of the sex glands entering the blood and affecting the brain. The enlarged fibroid prostate, which is the homotype of the uterus, is also a frequent cause of serious sexual mental disturbance in elderly men. We are all acquainted with the term “ third sex/'which applies to a mental and physical condition intermediate between the two sexes. The woman is very masculine in figure and habit. The male is effeminate, beardless, with a high voice and the affectionate nature of a woman. In some instances these cases prefer their own sex, being man haters and woman haters respectively. This abnormality in sex is fully explained by a study of the differentiation of sex in the earliest stages of develop¬ ment of the ovum. When the ovum is fertilized it is possible, in the case of certain lower forms of life, to 'See Chapter XVII, Penology in Holland; and “Unfinished Man,” Chapter XIV, Social Hygiene in Holland.
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