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[Footnote 241: James R. Angell and Helen B. Thompson, "A Study of the Relations between Certain Organic Processes and Consciousness,"

_University of Chicago Contributions to Philosophy_, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 32-69.]

[Footnote 242: The paralysis of extreme fear seems to be a case of failure to accommodate when the equilibrium of attention is too violently disturbed. (See Mosso, _La peur_, p. 122.)]

[Footnote 243: Cf. pp. 108ff. of this volume.]

[Footnote 244: "s.e.x and Primitive Morality," pp. 149ff.]

[Footnote 245: Without making any attempt to cla.s.sify the emotions, we may notice that they arise out of conditions connected with both the nutritive and reproductive activities of life; and it is possible to say that such emotions as anger, fear, and guilt show a more plain genetic connection with the conflict aspect of the food-process, while modesty is connected rather with s.e.xual life and the attendant bodily habits.]

[Footnote 246: Groos, _The Play of Animals_, p. 285. The utility of these antics is well explained by Professor Ziegler in a letter to Professor Groos: "Among all animals a highly excited condition of the nervous system is necessary for the act of pairing, and consequently we find an exciting playful prelude is very generally indulged in"

(Groos, _loc. cit._, p. 242); and Professor Groos thinks that the s.e.xual hesitancy of the female is of advantage to the species, as preventing "too early and too frequent yielding to the s.e.xual impulse"

(_loc. cit._, p. 283).]

[Footnote 247: Old women among the natural races often lose their modesty because it is no longer of any use. Bonwick says that the Tasmanian women, though naked, were very modest, but that the old women were not so particular on this point. (Bonwick, _The Daily Life of the Tasmanians_, p. 58.)]

[Footnote 248: _Native Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 556.]

[Footnote 249: A.C. Haddon, "The Ethnography of the Western Tribes of Torres Straits," _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, Vol.

XIX, p. 397; cf. also "The Psychology of Exogamy," pp. 175ff. of this volume.]

[Footnote 250: _Loc. cit._, p. 336.]

[Footnote 251: Bonwick, _loc. cit._, p. 24.]

[Footnote 252: Karl von den Steinen, _Unter den Naturvolkern Zentral-Brasiliens_, p. 192.]

[Footnote 253: Spencer and Gillen, _loc. cit._, p. 572.]

[Footnote 254: Westermarck, _History of Human Marriage_, p. 189.]

[Footnote 255: Pp. 167ff.]

[Footnote 256: See John Fiske, _Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy_, Vol.

II, pp. 342ff.]

[Footnote 257: See, however, Topinard, _elements d'anthropologie generale_, pp. 557ff.]

[Footnote 258: Helen B. Thompson, _The Mental Traits of s.e.x_, p. 182.]

[Footnote 259: _The Yoruba-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa_, pp. 218ff.]

[Footnote 260: Whewell, _History of the Inductive Sciences_, Vol. I, p. 205.]

[Footnote 261: _Iliad_, iii, 233; translation by Lang, Leaf, and Myers.]

[Footnote 262: Thomson, _New Zealand_, Vol. I, p. 164.]

[Footnote 263: Shooter, _The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu Country_, p.

102.]

[Footnote 264: _Fresh Discoveries at Nineveh and Researches at Babylon: Supplement._]

[Footnote 265: Maine, _Popular Government_, p. 132.]

[Footnote 266: Ibid., p. 134.]

[Footnote 267: Smith, _Village Life in China_, p. 99.]

[Footnote 268: Ibid., p. 95.]

[Footnote 269: On the increase of insanity and feeble-mindedness see R.R. Rentoul, "Proposed Sterilization of Certain Mental Degenerates,"

_American Journal of Sociology_, Vol. XII, pp. 319ff.]

[Footnote 270: It is true that in many parts of the world, among the lower races, woman was treated by the men with a chivalrous respect, due to the prevalence of the maternal system and ideas of sympathetic magic; but she nevertheless did not partic.i.p.ate in their activities and interests.]

[Footnote 271: A.E. Crawley, "s.e.xual Taboo," _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, Vol. XXIV, p. 233.]

[Footnote 272: _Loc. cit._, p. 227.]

[Footnote 273: Ibid., pp. 123-25.]

[Footnote 274: Danks, "Marriage Customs of the New Britain Group,"

_Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, Vol. XVII, p. 284.]

[Footnote 275: Burrows, "On the Native Races of the Upper Welle District of the Belgian Congo," _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, N.S. Vol. I, p. 41.]

[Footnote 276: Williams, _The Middle Kingdom_, Vol. I, p. 786.]

[Footnote 277: Cf. pp. 223ff. of this volume.]

[Footnote 278: _The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans_, (Edited) by Hamilton Holt, pp. 100ff.

This peasant woman represents the true female type, and the American women in the scene represent the advent.i.tious type of woman. The frail and clinging type is an adjustment to the tastes of man, produced partly by custom and partly by breeding. But in so far as the selection of frail women by men of the upper cla.s.ses has contributed to the production of a frail or so-called "feminine" type in these cla.s.ses, this applies to the males as well as the females of these cla.s.ses. And there is, in fact, a more or less marked tendency to "feminism" apparent among the men and women of the "better cla.s.ses."

If we want to breed for mind, we can do so, but we must breed on better principles than beauty and docility.]

[Footnote 279: Ploss, _Das Weib_, 2 Auf., Vol. I, p. 46.]