The Sexual Crisis: A Critique of Our Sex LifeCritic and guide Company, 1917 - 345 pages |
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The Sexual Crisis: A Critique of Our Sex Life Grete Meisel-Hess,Eden and Cedar Paul,William J. Robinson No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 232 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 280 - The majority of men at present in Europe have no business to be alive; and no serious progress will be made until we address ourselves earnestly and scientifically to the task of producing trustworthy human material for society. In short, it is necessary to breed a race of men in whom the lifegiving impulses predominate, before the New Protestantism becomes politically practicable.
Page 339 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 82 - Good Heavens, man, what are you crying for ? Here is a woman whom we all supposed to be making bad water color sketches, practising Grieg and Brahms, gadding about to concerts and parties, wasting her life and her money. We suddenly learn that she has turned from these sillinesses to the fulfilment of her highest purpose and greatest function — to increase, multiply and re1plenish the earth.
Page 64 - woman is generally much more particular than man in giving her love: while the normal man is as a rule attracted to coitus by nearly every more or...
Page 69 - The case is thus managed,' answered my friend, 'if the woman does not prove with child, after a competent time of courtship, they conclude they are not destined by Providence for each other; they therefore separate; and as it is an established maxim, which the Portland women observe with great strictness, never to admit a plurality of lovers at one time, their honour is...
Page 69 - ... (after the affair is declared to be broke off) gets another suitor as if she had been left a widow, or that nothing had ever happened but that she had remained an immaculate virgin.
Page 48 - Love itself dreams of more than mere possession; to conceive happiness, it must conceive a life to be shared in a varied world, full of events and activities, which shall be new and ideal bonds between the lovers. But unlawful love cannot pass out into this public fulfilment. It is condemned to be mere possession — possession in the dark, without an environment, without a future. It is love among the ruins. And it is precisely this that is the torment of Paolo and Francesca — love among the ruins...
Page 11 - ... demands. . . . Marriage as the permanent sexual association of one man and one woman, drawn together by an intimate harmony of physical and mental qualities, and each fin[ding in the other complete satisfaction of all desire for sexual relationship, with father, mother, and children, living together in harmony, is and must remain the ideal.
Page 81 - The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the demand for purity infinite, spotless bloom. Earlier or later they see they have been victims of the singular Egoist, have worn a mask of ignorance to be named innocent, have turned themselves into market produce for his delight, and have really abandoned the commodity in ministering to the lust for it...