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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... was born. The mother's elaborating principles may be positive to the father's impregnating qualities; the result, under these maternal conditions, will be the evolution of a female child. The sex is determined by the predominating principles which attract together the materials and establish in the womb the human protoplasm. The individual germ as to its sexuality thus pre-exists; that is, it antedates both the organization and birth of the material body; which explains why, in many families, the more active spirituality (the hidden positive vitality) of the mother ultimates in more girls than boys. In keeping with this fixed law--the manifestations of which circumstances may change, arrest, or invert, which law then brings the offender its corrective potency in the shape of appropriate social punishments and personal sufferings--on this law, the mental organism and disposition of the child are also determined and inwrought before birth. Theories of re-incarnations of pre-existing matured females or males are here exhibited as pseudo-productions of the psychologized imagination. Predispositions in the mind of the child stand for so much actual labor, right or wrong, performed by the spirituality, intelligence, and volition of the mother through the medium of her physical forces, forms, and functions. In the body and mind of the child we find fully organized and reflected the forming influences, the outer circumstances, and the interior causes of organization, which held an ascendency over the feelings, the judgment, the wishes, and the will of the mother. One of these outer circumstances is sometimes (yea, too often) a brutal husband. Evil in her surrounding circumstances is organized into actual life-force in the self-conscious propensities to...

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