The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German EditionBloch, Iwan
Philosophy
The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization: Translated from the Sixth German Edition
Bloch, Iwan
Sex; Sexual ethics
[22] We must not ignore the fact, that other distinguished
anthropologists, such as Manouvrier, Pearson, Frassetto, and
especially Giuffrida-Ruggieri, have recently contested the slighter
variability and the infantile character of woman. _Cf._
Giuffrida-Ruggieri, “Anthropological Considerations regarding
Infantilism, and Conclusions regarding the Origin of the Varieties of
the Human Species” (_Italian Zoological Review_, 1903, vol. xiv., Nos.
4, 5). _Cf._ also the interesting remarks of Näcke in the “German
Archives for Criminal Anthropology,” 1903, vol. xiii., pp. 292, 293.
[23] Konrad Lange--“Das Wesen der Kunst” (“The Nature of Art”), pp.
361-364; Berlin, 1901--has ably exposed the subjective grounds of this
ancient dispute, and has shown their untenability.
CHAPTER V
PSYCHICAL DIFFERENTIAL SEXUAL CHARACTERS--THE WOMAN’S QUESTION
(Appendix: SEXUAL SENSIBILITY IN WOMAN)
“_Among all the higher activities and movements of our time, the
struggle of our sisters to attain an equality of position with the
strong, the dominant, the oppressive sex, appears to me, from the purely
human point of view, most beautiful and most interesting; indeed, I
regard it as possible that the coming century will obtain its historical
characterization, not from any of the social and economical
controversies of the world of men, but that this century will be known
to subsequent history distinctively as that in which the solution of the
‘woman’s question’ was obtained._”--GEORG HIRTH.
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER V
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