Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others (electronic resource)- demonstrated (14804664693)

Identifier: 11266759.5882.emory.edu
Title: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others [electronic resource: demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings]
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Walker, Alexander
Subjects: Eugenics Genetic Processes Marriage Reproduction Sexual Behavior Sexuality Social Behavior Mother-Child Relations
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library



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t be removed !] They mayrecur under new circumstances! And it cannot bepleasant to reflect that a man may any night awaketo discover that his wife has gone undressed upon ashopping excursion, or that his child is amusing anassembly of policemen on the other side of the street byjourneying astride upon the house top; for if the por-tion of the organization on which this depends becommunicated, the tendency to such disease will assurely be communicated.] It has been shown that, from ignorance of the rela-tive proportions of cerebral parts, and of the influenceof such proportions over the mental capacity of pro-geny, sane parents often produce insane children. Afact more alarming can scarcely be presented to a re-flecting mind ; nor can any condition more distressingto a parent be imagined. If the facts here stated beaccurate, and the inductions from them be true, thatcondition henceforward will not be more distressingthan criminal. Date Due H ■ ■ ■ Library Bureau Cat. No. 1137 1 1
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