The choice of a mate.

  • Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario), 1882-1971.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: The choice of a mate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cross-breeding, continued — able from standpoint of world eugenics, 124-128 ; classical warnings against, 134; destroys instinct, 135; leads to degeneracy and disease, 135 ; and reversion, 135-137 ; and disharmony, 138 ; and separate inheritance of bodily parts, 138-140; and consequent disease, 141 ; often responsible for difficult childbirth, 141, 142 ; leads to disequilibrium of nervous system and endocrine balance, 142, 143 ; possibly leads to can cer, 143, 144 ; and diabetes, 143 n. ; and ugliness, 144, 143 ; dis seminates and conceals taints, 146, 147 Culture, beautiful and harmonious, the creation of beautiful and harmoni ous people, 5 2 ; originally created in enclosed areas and islands, 52 ; the product of incestuous peoples, 150 Dancing, a sublimating expedient, 489 Darwin, on instinct to segregate in animals, 33, 54 ; and in man, 35 ; opposed to inbreeding and incest, 56, 92, 105 ; on inbreeding in plants, 63 ; and animals, 64, 66 ; his condemnation of inbreeding due to ethico-theological super stition, 66, 69 ; confuted those who declared depopulation of Melanesia and Polynesia was due to inbreeding, 91 «.; his expla nation of exogamy, 105 ; on cross breeding for size, 114; agreed that cross-breeding ruined char acter, 128, 134 ; showed that out- breeding leads to reversion, 135; his experiments on pigeons, 135, 136; on the degraded state of crossed races of men, 136, 137; on idiots, 167 n.; on ugliness as a state of reversion, 171, 172 ; on primitive instinct for beauty, 176 ; his youthful tendency to decep tion, 230 ; on nature being more important than nurture, 245 ; an extravert, 314; fairly happily married, 411 ; regarded very hairy men as reversions, 412; believed in telegony, 491 David, King, descended from in cestuous union, 85 Degas, admired the typically female form, 337, 373 Degeneracy, not necessarily due to immorality, 78 ; not caused by incest and inbreeding, 94 ; caused by cross-breeding, 135 ; care re quired in interpretation of stig mata of, 227-229 Deportment, importance of, 403, 404 ; particularly important for girls, 463, 464 De Quincey, on sexual repression, viii ; on love of the picturesque, 18 ; connected madness with the di gestive organs, 310 Diabetes, possibly due to cross-breed ing, 143 ; particularly danger ous because invisible, 207 ; in crease of, 234, 273 ; increase of among women owing to labour- saving devices, 274; due to in dolence and over-eating, 274, 456 Disease, tendency to avoid a partner suffering from the same heredi tary, 50, 31 ; caused by cross breeding, 133, 141 ; due to dis proportion of bodily parts, 141, 142 ; sometimes “ sex-linked,” 202, 203 ; list of some hereditary diseases, 203-206 ; various kinds of, associated with over and under weight, 269, 270 ; and with sex, 271, 272 Divorce, less frequent among Jews than Gentiles, 7 ; increase of, in England and America, 7 n. ; in France greater among people of Teutonic stock, 331 Don Juan, vain rather than passionate, 407 Draper, Dr. George, on similarity of people suffering from the same diseases, 270-272 ; on diabetes, 273 Ears, discussed, 219, 220 Education, of the mate, 404, 464 Egyptians, the ancient, their abhor rence of the stranger, 3 5 ; incest practised among all classes of, 72- 80 ; their love of beauty, 177 ; shaved the body for the sake of savouriness, 198 ; their changing canon for the human figure, 360 ; their civilization built on the ideal man, 399