Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical JurisprudenceTalmey, Bernard Simon
Science
Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction: for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence
Talmey, Bernard Simon
Sex
Every union not based upon this kind of sensual attachment is decried
as mere prostitution in marriage. Any marriage influenced by such
motives as loneliness, poverty, welfare of the nearest relatives,
the advance in social position, advance in business or in the
professions, without the obligatory romance, which after all is only
refined animalism, is considered contemptible. Such motives are held
to be honorable enough to govern any other action in the life of the
individual, but when it comes to marriage the line is drawn. Without
the quickly wearing off glamor of a silly moon-light romance, the best
of motives for contracting marriage relations are nowadays considered
ulterior, and the sought-for party regards itself as having married
under a misapprehension.
Even eugenic power is attributed to this wonderful love. Two
intellectual and physical giants will beget weaklings, so we are
told, if their union has not preceded by love’s desire; while if two
weaklings marry upon short notice, guided only by their pent-up sex
promptings, the offspring, as a child of love, is prophesied to become
a physical and intellectual giant. As if the chromosomes, the carriers
of the determiners of the unit-characters, could be influenced by
love’s perjuries.
[AG] Those feminists who clamor for the wife’s right to her
individuality show that they have never experienced the emotion of true
love.
[AH] If Samson’s love for Delilah would have been of the sentimental
kind and not mere infatuation, his love would have been turned into
contempt and resentment, long before his betrayal, for her, who, he
must have seen, was trying to elicit the secret of his strength for
some sinister purpose. But being of a sensual nature, he was betrayed
by two women whom he thought he loved but with whom he was only deeply
infatuated.
[AI] Sorrow is an only child, but happiness was born twins; one can be
sad, it takes two to be happy.
[AJ] Thus capitalism has been evolved from primal communism, feudalism,
industrialism, capitalism; and we are gradually verging to state
socialism.
Marriage has been evolved from original permanent mating of the
prehuman state to primal promiscuity, consanguine family, punaluan
family, pairing family, patriarchal family, to strict female and loose
male monogamy, and is gradually reaching, through the modern feminine
movement, not, as some radicals seem to think, to variety, but to
strict male and female monogamy.
Through the entire range of higher animals, even among the polygamous,
the female is always monogamous, at least for the period between one
impregnation to the other. As soon as she has been impregnated by one
male, during the period of rut, she does not admit any other male
until the next period, and woman is no exception. If she has the power
she will force men to monogamy, but she will never return herself to
promiscuity.
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