Part 10

Taking union as the main point we may look upon the idealized Sex-love as a sense of contact pervading the whole mind and body—while the sex-organs are a specialization of this faculty of union in the outermost sphere: union in the bodily sphere giving rise to bodily generation, the same as union in the mental and emotional spheres occasions generation of another kind.

Footnote 5:

These are (1) the curious, not yet explained, facts of “Telegony”—i. e., the tendency (often noticed in animals) of the children of a dam by a second sire to resemble the first sire; (2) the probable survival, in a modified form, of the primitive close relation (as seen in the protozoa) between copulation and nutrition; (3) the great activity of the spermatozoa themselves.

Footnote 6:

For other points of difference see Appendix.

Footnote 7:

Man and Woman, by Havelock Ellis. Contemporary Science Series, p. 371.

Footnote 8:

Physiologically speaking a certain excess of affectability and excitability in women over men seems to be distinctly traceable.

Footnote 9:

The freedom of Woman must ultimately rest on the Communism of society—which alone can give her support during the period of Motherhood, without forcing her into dependence on the arbitrary will of one man. While the present effort of women towards earning their own economic independence is a healthy sign and a necessary feature of the times, it is evident that it alone will not entirely solve the problem, since it is just during the difficult years of Motherhood, when support is most needed, that the woman is least capable of earning it for herself. (See Appendix.)

Footnote 10:

See “Appendix.”

Footnote 11:

See “Appendix.”

Footnote 12:

As to the maternal teaching of children, it must be confessed that it has, in late times, been most dismal. Whether among the masses or the classes the idea has been first and foremost to impress upon them the necessity of sliding through life as comfortably as possible, and the parting word to the boy leaving home to launch into the great world has seldom risen to a more heroic strain than “Don’t forget your flannels!”

Footnote 13:

It must be remembered too that to many women (though of course by no means a majority) the thought of Sex brings but little sense of pleasure, and the fulfillment of its duties constitutes a real, even though a willing, sacrifice. See Appendix.

Footnote 14:

Thus Bebel in his book on Woman speaks of “the idle and luxurious life of so many women in the upper classes, the nervous stimulant afforded by exquisite perfumes, the over-dosing with poetry, music, the stage—which is regarded as the chief means of education, and is the chief occupation, of a sex already suffering from hypertrophy of nerves and sensibility.”

Footnote 15:

See “Appendix.”

Footnote 16:

It is curious that the early Church Service had “Till death us depart,” but in 1661 this was altered to “Till death us do part.”

Footnote 17:

See R. F. Burton’s Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, chap. xxiv. He says, however, “As far as my limited observations go polyandry is the only state of society in which jealousy and quarrels about the sex are the exception and not the rule of life!”

Footnote 18:

See “Appendix.”

Footnote 19:

Perhaps one of the most sombre and inscrutable of these natural tragedies lies, for Woman, in the fact that the man to whom she first surrenders her body often acquires for her (whatever his character may be) so profound and inalienable a claim upon her heart. While, either for man or woman, it is almost impossible to thoroughly understand their own nature, or that of others, till they have had sex-experience, it happens so that in the case of woman the experience which should thus give the power of choice is frequently the very one which seals her destiny. It reveals to her, as at a glance, the tragedy of a life-time which lies before her, and yet which she cannot do other than accept.

Footnote 20:

See note on the Primitive Group-marriage, infra.

Footnote 21:

Letourneau (“Evolution of Marriage,” p. 173) mentions also among the inferior races who have adopted Monogamy the Veddahs of Ceylon, the Bochimans of S. Africa, and the Kurnails of Australia.

Footnote 22:

See Remarks on the Early Star and Sex Worships, infra.

Footnote 23:

Perhaps this accounts for the feeling, which so many have experienced, that a great love, even though not apparently returned, justifies itself, and has its fruition in its own time and its own way.

Footnote 24:

These dates have shifted now by two or three weeks owing to the equinoctial precession.

Footnote 25:

The date of his birth was not fixed till A. D. 531—when it was computed by a monkish astrologer.

Footnote 26:

Note especially the ordeals through which the youth of so many savage races have had to pass before being admitted to manhood.

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