The choice of a mate.

  • Anthony Ludovici
Date:
[1935]
Catalogue details
    533/546 (page 503)
    Heads, discussed, 217 ; long, male rather than female, 327; the brachycephalic less sensitive to pain, 329; men should have larger, than women, 413 ; women with large, to be avoided, 470 Health, absolutely essential in mar riage, 191, 192, 413, 470; low modern standard of, 196 ; hand writing associated with, 258 n .; correlation of, with intelligence, 259; the greatest asset in life, 260; the common man at sea regarding, 267 ; mistaken idea of, 267 Heine, on sex-phobia of Christianity, viii; said beautiful women were not so dangerous as ugly ones, 174 Henry VIII, not a degenerate, 78 ; a potential criminal, 230 ; bluff but deceitful, 409 Heredity, study of, necessary in mating, 51 ; the principle of, proved by the cases of Napoleon and Marcus Aurelius, 60; more important than environment, 319 ; approach from visible to invisible from, 319 Hesiod, on right age for a man to marry 387 ; on right age for a girl to marry, 438 Heterosis, produced by cross-breeding, 114, 145 ; confined to the first generation, 115 ; among Euro peans through mixing, 116 ; pos sibly due to an anomaly of the endocrine glands, 116 n.; genius due to, 117 ; no argument against inbreeding, 117 Hindus, the “ Saakhini ” woman of the ancient, a masculoid female, 465, 466 Hippocrates, ascribed eunuchoidism to excessive horse-riding, 429 History, approach from visible to in visible through, and biography, 256 Hitler, his eugenic reforms, 212 Homosexuality, in ancient Greece, 349; cases of, there, 349, 350; toler ated and legalized there, 350; forbidden to slaves, 350; excuses made by Greek scholars for, 351- 333 ; its educative aspects, 351- 353 ; influenced Greek taste in human morphology, 334 Humour, sense of, undesirable, 400,43 5 Horse, the, famous breeds of, all in- bred, 67 Horse-riding, excess of, and production of eunuchoid men, 429-430 Huxley, Thomas, infected by Christian values, 26 n. Hybrid, the, dubious health of, 114 n. ; vigour of, confined to the first, generation, 115 ; regarded by Romans as a fool, 144 n. Hypoplasia, of female reproductive organs common, 434, 433 Immorality, no proof of degeneracy, 78 Impotence, stigmata of, in man, 405 Inbreeding, practised in ancient civiliza tions, 33 ; and in healthy culti vated man and primitive peoples, 33-53 ; attitude of science to wards, 56 ; results to, cross-bred stocks by, 60 ; merely the stabili zation of the germ-plasm, 61 n., 71 ; evil results not due to, 61 n., 63 n. ; close, in plants, 63 ; in animals, 64,65 ; should be carried on with constant selection, 66 ; catttle in Germany improved by, 66 ; Darwin’s disapproval of, condemned by recent experi ments, 69-71 ; purifies, 71, 72 ; among various civilized peoples, 90, 91 ; some champions of, юз- 105 and 147-150 ; not contrary to law of nature, 104 ; some oppon ents of, 105, 106 ; claim that royal and aristocratic families have degenerated through, no; this claim not substantiated, 130, 131 ; favours health, 133, 134; encouragement of, the only way to effect eugenic reform, 147-149 Incas, the, practised incest, 84, 85 Incest, beneficial to mankind, vii ; practised among all classes in ancient Egypt, 72-73 ; practised by the Pharaohs, 73-76 ; the Ptolemies, 77-79 ; the Persians, 80-82 ; the Phoenicians, 82 ; the Assyrians, 82 ; the Scythians, 82 ; the Tatars, 82 ; the Arabs, 83 ; The Jews, 83 ; the Britons and various other peoples, 84 ; the Incas, 84, 85 ; the Greeks, 83 ; various civilized and semi-civil ized peoples, 86-88 ; forbidden by Christians, 92, 93 ; some opponents and advocates of, 92- 93 ; no sound biological reasons against, 93-99 ; irrational pro hibition of, 93, 94 ; horror of,