The Biology of Sex: S Study of the Sex Problems According to the Latest Facts Disclosed by Biology & Evolution

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S.A. Bloch, 1909 - 87 pagine
 

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Pagina 88 - ... the experience of others in order to develop the highest expression of sex-love. While hereditary knowledge or what was once called instinct may be a certain guide in its development, yet heredity is only the accumulated experiences of our ancestors, and if the basic life power of intelligence was not used as a guide in all experiences there never could be a higher development of life in any form. We endeavor to train and guide the evolving individual in all other expressions of life...
Pagina 88 - ... period of time, the racial or specie-history to which it belongs ; and as the different complexities of organization and different functionings are evolved within the individual, from the simple embryonic state to that of maturity, so must the principle of sex-love or function of fertilization develop within the individual from its lowest elementary stage to a higher and harmonious perfection. In other words, the higher expression of .sex-love or a higher function of fertilization must be developed...
Pagina 89 - ... the fact that we now know the fertilizing nature of sex-love and its vital influence upon individual well-being when properly expressed, is it not more than criminal folly to continue to teach that it is a shameful and vicious function, and thus allow thousands to ruin and destroy their lives through its unnatural expression?
Pagina 87 - ... annelids. And according to this same law, some types and races of man have a higher developed love expression and receive greater benefits out of their fertilizing life of love than do others. Each individual in its life history repeats, in a comparatively brief period of time, the racial or specie-history to which it belongs ; and as the different complexities of organization and different functionings are evolved within the individual, from the simple embryonic state to that of maturity, so...
Pagina 70 - As is so clearly expressed everywhere, all the laws of nature are centered and concentrated toward the individual, toward the ego unit and toward its own perpetuation, well-being and happiness. To live and to express metabolic activity is the primary and continuous impulse of every living unit — that is, normal units.
Pagina 68 - When the racial consciousness once becomes thoroughly impressed with this scientific fact that sex-love is purely a plastic rejuvenating life-saving impulse, then there will be such a revulsion against our present sex ethics that they will be swept from the face of the earth and we...
Pagina 71 - Thus the very act of living IS AN ACT OF PROPAGATION and perpetuation of new living units — not an altruistic act, but an egoistic act.
Pagina 88 - ... vital function of fertilization, which exerts a far greater and deeper influence upon the individual life, health and well-being than any other power, our hypocritical conventionality throws a chilling blanket of prudery...

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