Sociology

Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation

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Chapters

12. Part 12

In early prospect we have but two more points to compass. Perfect health in all respects he has intact. Self-control and self-sufficiency, both in amusing himself and in endurin...

13. Part 13

In this connection the question may be asked, Is it possible for women with defective breasts to become mothers of a virile race of men and strong women. In most cases it is not...

6. Part 6

The English Darwinian met with only one case in which the offspring of a woman by a second husband, who was a white man, showed the influence of her first husband, who was a neg...

10. Part 10

It is a picture of a great manufacturing establishment of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, at Shieldhall, near Glasgow, on the Clyde. This society is a federation of...

7. Part 7

We cannot explain the philosophy of heredity without being able to answer these questions; but difficult as is the problem, our biologists have made various attempts at an expla...

11. Part 11

Air is also food the same as bread is. The activities, the chemical changes in the body, are mainly, though not entirely, between the oxygen of the air and the carbon and hydrog...

3. Part 3

AN EXPERIMENT IN STIRPICULTURE.--Noyes was the founder of a religious sect, the members of which, owing to their desire for freedom from sin, were called Perfectionists. Holines...

9. Part 9

We may have a good object lesson in the elimination of the unfit going on about us constantly. In New York City, for 1891, the deaths of children under five years of age was 18,...

8. Part 8

It is not easy to accept this view, but I think there are some facts that support it. I will advance a few. The hive of the honey-bee contains three kinds of insects: the queen,...

2. Part 2

GROUP MARRIAGE.--A remarkable system of relationships, with which is combined a series of regulations framed with the object of pointing out what persons are entitled to enter i...

1. Part 1

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4. Part 4

[42:A] See Lorimer Fison, in "The Journal of the Anthropological Institute," May, 1895, page 361. The whole subject is exhaustively treated by C. Staniland Wake, in his "Develop...

5. Part 5

WHY CHILDREN RESEMBLE PARENTS.--That children reproduce the general and physical and mental characteristics of their parents in combination is unquestionable truth, although the...

14. Part 14

Thought transference is the transference from one to another person of some feeling, sensation or idea. The person from whom the thought is transferred is the _active_ agent, an...

15. Part 15