INDEX.
- Acquired characters, inheritance of, 71, 73, 77 et seq., 79, 90, 109, 111, et seq.
- Acquired characters not transmitted, 213
- Adaptation to environment necessary for health, 149
- Aesthetic sense displayed by animals, 28
- Aesthetic surroundings during gestation, 95
- Air, regarded as food, 174
- Alcohol, as a poison, 91
- Alcohol, effect of, on offspring, 171
- Allen, Joseph A., observations of, as to effects of war on children, 200
- Allen, Grant, 34, 48, 51, 180
- Amphimixis, theory of, 76
- Ancestral ids, 75
- Ancestral tendencies, correction of, 126
- Animals, practical superiority of man over, what?, 210
- Animal flesh, supposed effect of eating, 63
- Atavism in relation to disease, 83
- Baby, a theoretical, 185 et seq.
- Bad habits, broken up by suggestion during mesmeric sleep, 214
- Bad temper cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217 et seq.
- Beauty, reference of sexual selection to, 28
- Bees, instincts of, 122
- Bérillon, Dr., on beneficial effect of hypnotism over bad habits, etc., 215
- Birthmarks, 59, 68, 94
- Blood, healthy, purifying influence of, 92
- Blood, study of the, 140, 151
- Bones, modification of certain, through sitting, 116
- Boys, mortality among larger than with girls, 136
- Breasts, best methods of developing, 209
- Breasts, defective, women having, incapable of becoming mothers of a virile race, 209
- Breasts, development of, after marriage and parentage, 209
- Breasts, degeneracy of the, and motherhood, 208
- Breeding in and in, Noyes' first principle for race improvement, 38
- Camp life, evils of, 202
- Cases of prenatal influences, 204 et seq.
- Cells, sexual, 110, 162
- Chandler, Jennie, 97
- Character, dependence of, on arrangement of nerve cells, 222
- Character, improvement by suggestion, method to be employed by parents for, 223
- Character of children affected by war, 201
- Characteristics, origin of, through sexual selection, 134
- Charles, Havelock, 116
- Chickamauga Camp, prostitution at, 202
- Children acquire special aptitudes from mothers, 205
- Child bearing, best age for, 170
- Children, breeding of, in Plato's Republic, 11, 12
- Children considered as belonging to the State, 10 et seq., 22
- Children, deaths of, in New York city, 139
- Children, healthy, essentials for having, 168
- Children, interests of unborn, 199
- Children, characteristics of, in the Oneida Community, 39
- Children in the Oneida Community, care of, 38
- Children, mortality among, 136
- Children, obstacle of war to production and training of, 203
- Child training aided by suggestion, 214 et seq.
- Children, training of, 16 et seq., 52
- Civil War and how it affected the character of children, 201
- Co-adaptation of parts as evidence of transmission of acquired characters, 116
- Coalescence of sperm and germ cells, 166
- Concentrative power, want of, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216
- Conduct, knowledge of its object, not possessed by animals, 210
- Congenital characters, transmission of, 177
- Congenital deformities, 80
- Consanguineous marriages among the Greeks, 23
- Consanguineous marriages, regulations as to, among uncultured peoples, 21, 42
- Consanguineous marriages, effect on offspring, 42
- Constitution, bodily, improvement of the, 150
- Consumption, causes of, 176
- Consumption, tendency to, whether a bar to marriage, 176
- Contentment, value of, 95
- Continuity of germ-plasm, 107, 118
- Co-operation, hygienic value of, 156 et seq.
- Cope, Prof. E. D., 59, 69
- Cousins, marriage between, 43
- Couvade, custom of the, 63 et seq.
- Crimes, increase of, caused by war, 201
- Darwin, Charles, 28, 30 et seq., 73, 75, 85, 100, 105, 106, 109, 141, 179, 184
- Death, causes of, 150
- Deformities, congenital, 80
- Degeneracy of the breasts and motherhood, 208
- Degeneracy in offspring due to maternal degeneracy evidenced by inability to nurse a child, 208
- Degeneration, evidence of, 140
- Development of breasts after marriage and parentage, 209
- Diseases, influence of hygiene over, 159
- Diseases, inheritance of, 80
- Diseases which affect offspring, 175
- Disposition spiritualized through marriage of chastity, 210
- Disproportion between accidental causes and effects, 68, 90
- Diversity between offspring and parents, causes of, 58
- Domestication of animals, 9
- Doutrebente, Prof., 92
- Drink, influence of, over offspring, 16
- Duncan, J. C. Mathews, 170
- Education, beneficial effects of hypnotism in, 215
- Education and heredity, 111 et seq.
- Education and non-transmission of acquired characters, 124
- Education of Spartan children, 15
- Education, Plutarch on, 17
- Education, study of laws of evolution, as part of, 125
- Educational uses of hypnotism and suggestion, 220
- Egg. See Ovum.
- Eimer, Dr. G. H., 71, 79 et seq., 90
- Embryo, how parental properties communicated to, 69
- Embryology, importance of, 103
- Energy, bodily, use and abuse of, 153
- Environment, adaptation to, necessary for health, 149
- Epigenesis, theory of, 104
- Esquirol on the effects of the French Revolution over children, 200
- Ethics of the body, hygiene as the, 160
- Evolution, a superior race produced by, 130 et seq.
- Evolution, meaning of the term, 210
- Evolution of the horse, 102
- Evolution, study of laws of, as part of education, 125
- Evolutionary theories, conflict of, with humane sentiments, 145 et seq.
- Example, influence of, over children, 18
- Exercise, transmission of effects of, 111
- Experiment in race improvement by Noyes, 37 et seq.
- Explanation of the action of hypnotic suggestion, 221
- Family life, abolition of, in Plato's Republic, 10
- Father rule should be combined with mother rule, 213
- Fatherhood, too little importance assigned to, 212
- Feeble constitutions prevent numerous offspring, 147
- Fertilization essential to true germ plasm, 165
- Fertilization, nature of, 166
- Fison, Lorimer, 42
- Fitness for survival, characteristics of, 140
- Flat head Indians and heredity, 213
- Flat head and round head tribes, comparison between, 213
- Flat head not transmitted to offspring, 213
- Flattening the skull, injurious effect of on health, 214
- Flint, Dr. Austin, 88
- Food, how it affects germ plasm, 173
- Food (certain) injurious influence of, 94
- Foot, compression of, by Chinese ladies, 20
- Fosterage, 96
- French Revolution, evil effects of over children, 200
- Galton, Francis, 46, 50, 73, 106, 135, 170
- Gemmules, essential to pangenesis, 105, 106
- Generation, influences over, at time of conception, 57, 58
- Generation, influences over, subsequent to conception, 58
- Generative powers, debilitation of the, 84
- Germ plasm and heredity, 107, 162
- Germ plasm, continuity of the, 73, 74 et seq., 107, 118
- Germ plasm, how affected by food, 173
- Germ plasm, modification of the, 76, 80
- Germ variations, causes of, 81
- Gestation (period of) importance of pleasant surroundings during, 93
- Gestation, maternal influence during, 96
- Gestation, strong emotion during, effect of, 63, 94
- Gestation, uterine disturbances during, 93
- Girls, physical training of, among Spartans, 14
- Girls, mortality among, smaller than with boys, 136
- Great mothers, how constituted, 208
- Group marriage of Australian natives, 21
- Hæckel, Ernst, 109
- Harvey, 103
- Haycraft, John Berry, 143
- Head flattening, 20
- Health, action of nature in relation to, 130
- Health, transmission of, by thought transference, to young sick child, 224
- Healthy localities enable the healthiest offspring to be reared, 210
- Health, adaptation to environment necessary for, 149
- Health, ideal of, 148
- Health, importance of, in relation to marriage, 135, 168, 171
- Hearn, Professor, 67
- Hedonism, New, 48
- Hereditary tastes of children, 204 et seq.
- Heredities, antagonistic, of two parents, 58
- Heredity among Flat-head Indians, 213
- Heredity, definition of, 100
- Heredity and education, 111 et seq.
- Heredity, evils arising from, may be cured, 35
- Heredity, exceptions to law of, 58
- Heredity and germ plasm, 107
- Heredity, importance of knowledge of, by teachers, 125
- Heredity, modification of law of, 99
- Heredity, preponderating influence of, 69, 89
- Heredity, rational view of, 109
- Heredity, spectre of, 127 et seq.
- Heredity, theories of, 73 et seq.
- Heredity, transformation of, 83
- Hering, Richard, 70
- Hidery tribes of British Columbia, 214
- High-pressure, effects of living at, 152
- Hypnotic sleep, differs from ordinary sleep only in degree, 223
- Hypnotic suggestion, value of, as aid to education, 216
- Hypnotism as suggestive therapeutics, 214
- Horse, evolution of the, 102
- Human selection, plans for, 135 et seq.
- Human kind, regarded as a whole, should be benefited by our conduct, 211
- Human race, further improvement of impossible, if marriage relation be regarded only from standpoint of sexual indulgence, 210
- Humane sentiments, conflict of, with theories of evolution, 145 et seq.
- Husband and wife, tendency to resemble each other, 89
- Huth, A. H., 42
- Hygiene, modern, as opposed to natural selection, 142 et seq.
- Hygiene, as the ethics of the body, 160
- Hygiene, promises of, 158 et seq.
- Hygienic laws, punishment for infraction of, 161
- Hygienic surroundings, importance of, 139
- Hygienic training, value of, 151
- Ideal of Health, 148
- Idiots, education of, 25
- Illustrative cases of prenatal influence, 60 et seq.
- Imagination, effect of, on unborn offspring, 55 et seq.
- Improvement of race. See race improvement.
- Incas of Peru, consanguineous marriages among the, 23
- Income, bodily, importance of living within, 152
- Individual, the, as the beginning and end of the race, 50
- Individuality, development of the, 126
- Infanticide among Spartans, 15
- Infanticide, former general prevalence of, 19
- Infanticide in Plato's Republic, 11
- Infanticide not morally permissible, 24
- Inheritance of acquired characters, question as to the, 71, 73, 77, 79, 90, 109, 111 et seq.
- Inheritance, organic, wonders of, 101
- Injuries during life, transmission of, 79 et seq.
- Injury to health through flattening the skull, 214
- Instinct, explanations of origin of, 121
- Instincts of the race for children, loss of, 208
- Instruction and education, difference between, 210
- Intelligence affected by head flattening, 214
- Jacob, rods of, 56
- Jeune, Lady Mary, 47
- Jowett, Professor B., 25 et seq., 34
- Krafft, D. Von Ebing, 82, 84, 91
- Lamarck, 111
- Lamarchian theory of transmission, 213
- Language, not transmitted to offspring, 119
- Leeuwenhock, 103
- Limitation of offspring, 179 et seq.
- Locust, egg-laying instinct of, 123
- Luxury and parentage, 208
- Lycurgus, marriage regulations of, 13 et seq., 22, 27
- Lyman, Dr. C. W., on treatment of a baby, 185 et seq.
- Man, variations undergone by, 138
- Man, practical superiority of, over animals, what, 210
- Manufacturing life, unhealthiness of, 152
- Manufacturing mills, deterioration caused by, 158
- Marriage, consanguineous, ideas as to, 21, 42
- Marriage customs among Spartans, 18, 19
- Marriage, early, disadvantages of, 137
- Marriage, importance of health in relation to, 135
- Marriage, regulations as to, in Plato's Republic, 22, 25
- Marriage of weak and worthless, 137
- Marriage, a sacred state, 52
- Marriage of chastity, disposition spiritualized by, 210
- Marriages of affection and passion, difference between, analogous to that between education and instruction, 210
- Mason, Dr. R. Osgood, on beneficial effect of hypnotism in education, 215
- Maternity, avoidance of, 208
- McGee, Dr. Anita Newcomb, 37
- Memory, endowment of reproductive cells with, 70
- Memory, improvement of, by hypnotic suggestion, 210
- Mental dullness, curable by suggestion during hypnotic sleep, 215
- Mental emotion of mother, injury to unborn child through, 200
- Mesmeric sleep, effect of suggestion during, 214
- Mesmerism, now known as hypnotism, 214
- Method to be employed by parents for using suggestion in child training, 223
- Microbes, selective action of, 143
- Mind of operator, state of, necessary to successful suggestion, 224-5
- Modification of certain bones through sitting, 116
- Modification of the organism during descent from first ancestors, 71
- Modification of sense of touch, 114
- Modification of toes, 112
- Modification of the whale, 115
- Molecular structure of sexual cells, 110
- Monogamy, return to, by the Oneida Community, 40, 41, 53
- Moral nature, growth of the, 146
- Mosaic regulations as to unclean animals, 63
- Motherhood, highest, war an enemy to, 204
- Motherhood and degeneracy of the breasts, 208
- Mothers, not peculiarily the divinely appointed teachers of children, 212
- Musical talent, not transmitted to offspring, 120
- Mutilations, not transmissible, 119
- Myer, Prof. Frederic W. H., on hypnotic suggestion, 221
- Natural selection, 9, 115, 138, 142
- Natural selection, always operative, 147
- Nature, action of, in relation to health, 130
- Nerve cells, constitution of, alterable by hypnotic suggestion, 222
- Nervous system, debilitation of the, 84
- Night terrors cured by hypnotic suggestion, 220
- Nipples, deformed, common occurrence of, 209
- Nisbet, J. F., 90, 92
- Non-nursing of children a sign of degeneracy, 208
- Normal conditions only should be transferred by hypnotic suggestion, 225
- Nose molding, 20
- Notes, 199 et seq.
- Noyes, John Humphrey, 37 et seq.
- Nucleus of cell, essential to reproduction, 167
- Nutrition, action of, on germ cells, 151
- Nutrition (arrested) organic effect of, 77
- Obedience the basis of education among the Spartans, 15
- Offspring, effect of alcohol on, 171
- Offspring, effect of consanguineous marriage on, 42
- Offspring, influence of locality on health of, 210
- Offspring, injuriously affected by sexual excess of parents, 211
- Offspring, inception of, the starting point of stirpiculture, 52
- Offspring, limitation of, 179 et seq.
- Oneida Community, 37 et seq.
- Ovum, 163 et seq.
- Ovum, the beginning of animal life, 101, 163
- Ovum, developmental tendency of the, 110
- Ovum, effect of gestation on the, 102
- Ovum of different animals, apparent similarity of the, 163
- Paget, Sir James, 148
- Pain, prevention of, in surgical operations, 214
- Pangenesis, experiments in, 106
- Pangenesis, theory of, 75, 105, 109
- Panmixia, theory of, 78
- Paper mill (New England), 154
- Parentage and luxury, 208
- Parentage and war, 199
- Parentage, responsibility in, 49, 181
- Parentage, Plato's restrictions on, 11
- Parentage, sacredness of, 93
- Parents, how to make use of suggestion in the training of children, 222
- Parents, organic growth of, injuriously affected by sexual excess, 211
- Parental life, influence of, over offspring, 95
- Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, 37 et seq.
- Phillips, Wendell, 128
- Physical culture, 160
- Physical training of girls among Spartans, 14
- Physical weakness may be associated with mental greatness, 34
- Plato, Republic of, 10 et seq., 25
- Plutarch, 13, 16 et seq.
- Poisons, actions of, on the sexual cells, 91
- Poverty, obstacle of, to production and training of the young, 203
- Preference, as exhibited among animals, 131
- Preference, as exhibited among men, 133
- Preference, first principle of sexual selection, 131
- Prenatal culture, 55 et seq.
- Prenatal culture, illustrative cases of, 60 et seq.
- Prenatal influence, 112
- Prenatal influence in telegony, 85
- Prenatal influences, cases of, 204 et seq.
- Principles on which sexual selection is based, 38, 131
- Progress in organic life, 9
- Promiscuity regulated in Oneida Community, 37
- Promiscuity regulated in Plato's Republic, 11
- Prostitution, camp life a school for, 202
- Psychical diseases, heredity of, 82 et seq.
- Psychological laws, uncertain effect of, 68
- Psychological research, laboratories for, 160
- Quatrefages, M. de, 59
- Race (human) deterioration of the, through hygienic action, 143 et seq.
- Race, improvement of the, aim of, 36
- Race, improvement of the, based on spiritual sympathy, 58
- Race improvement, experiment in, of the Oneida Community, 37 et seq.
- Race improvement, failure of compulsory attempts at, 27
- Race improvement, Grecian methods for, 10 et seq.
- Race improvement, Grecian methods not suited for modern times, 24
- Race improvement, natural factors in, 10
- Race improvement, State aid to, 37, 53
- Race should be thought of before ourselves, 211
- Reproductive function, difference in exercise of, by animals and man, 210
- Responsibility in parentage, 49, 181
- Ribot, Th., 57, 68, 83
- Romanes, G. J., 28, 73, 85, 87
- Ruin of countries by the burdens of war, 203
- Sacredness of parentage, 93
- Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, 68
- Sampson, mother of, 172
- Science of true living, hygiene as the, 160
- Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society's manufacturing mill, 156 et seq.
- Selection, artificial, by man, 9
- Selection, individual, by Noyes, 38
- Selection, natural, see "Natural selection."
- Selection, sexual, see "Sexual selection."
- Selective action of female animals, 28 et seq.
- Selective action of woman in marriage, 43 et seq.
- Self-control, importance of, 96
- Self-consciousness, excessive, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216
- Self-development, 48
- Sense of touch, modification of, through use, 114
- Sex-instinct, 51
- Sexual cells, 162
- Sexual cells, acquired powers of, 110
- Sexual excess injuriously affects both parents and offspring, 211
- Sexual impulse, gratification of the, consistent with the development of the highest mental qualities, 212
- Sexual selection, 27 et seq., 131 et seq.
- Sexual selection, action of, among primeval men, 179
- Sexual selection applicable primarily to male characteristics, 30
- Sexual selection by women, effect of, 44 et seq.
- Sexual selection, influence of, 31, 33
- Sick child, transmission of health to, by thought transference, 224
- Sire, previous, influence of, on subsequent progeny, 86 et seq.
- Sleep, ordinary, differs from hypnotic sleep only in degree, 223
- Smith, Sidney, 121
- Sobriety, importance of, in relation to offspring, 91
- See "Alcohol."
- Soldiers demand gratification of their passional natures, 202
- Spartans, marriage relations among, 13 et seq.
- Special aptitudes of child determined by prenatal influences, 204
- Spectre of heredity, 127 et seq.
- Spencer, Herbert, 4, 77, 78, 85, 87, 112, 115, 149, 169, 181
- Spermatozoon, 162
- Spiritual nature, appeal to, in hypnotic suggestion, 221
- Spontaneous thought transference, 224
- Standing armies, crushing burden of, 203
- State, aid of the, to race improvement, 53
- State, children regarded as belonging to the, 10 et seq., 22
- Stirpiculture. See "Race, improvement of the."
- Stirpiculture, meaning of, 10
- Stirpiculture, good air and water as factors in, 175
- Stirpiculture, Noyes' experiment in, 37 et seq.
- Stirpiculture, starting point of, 52
- Strength as necessary as tenderness to bringing up of children, 213
- Struggle, sexual selection through, 132
- Studious habits transmitted to children, 205
- Subliminal self, orders conveyed to, by hypnotic suggestion, 222
- Suggestion as an aid to child training, 214, 221
- Suggestion by parents to children for educational purposes, 223
- Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, bad habits cured by, 214
- Suggestion during mesmeric sleep, beneficial effect of, over mental dullness, 215
- Suggestion, hypnotic, influence of, in developing self-control, 219
- Suggestion, hypnotic, method of, employed by Dr. R. Osgood Mason for educational purposes, 215 et seq.
- Suggestive therapeutics, 214
- Superiority of offspring, where limited, 184
- Surgical operations, prevention of pain in, by mesmerism, 214
- Survival of the fittest, 9
- Survival, what constitutes fitness for, 141
- Sympathy, spiritual, as the basis of race improvement, 53
- Taxation, burden of, created by war, 203
- Telegony, 85 et seq.
- Temper, bad, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 217
- Tenderness to be combined with strength in bringing up children, 213
- Theoretical baby, 185 et seq.
- Thought transference induced artificially in hypnotic state, 224
- Thought transference, nature of, 224
- Thought transference, transmission of health by, to a young sick child, 224
- Timidity cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216
- Toes, modification of the, in man, 112
- Touch, modification of the sense of, 114
- Training of children aided by hypnotic suggestion, 221
- Training of children, Plutarch on the, 16 et seq.
- Transformation of heredity, 83
- Transitory states of parents, effect of on offspring, 59
- Transmission by mother to child of aptitude for hard work, 207
- Transmission by mother to child of artistic and literary tastes, 204 et seq., 207
- Transmission by mother to child of taste for study of natural history, 206
- Transmission by mother to child of taste for surgical nursing, 207
- Transmission of acquired characters. See "Acquired characters."
- Transmission of effects of exercise, 111
- Tylor, E. B., 64, 67
- Twins, resemblance of, 90
- Unborn children injured by war, 199
- Unborn children, interests of, 199
- Unfit, elimination of the, 139
- Unicellular organisms, 109
- Uterine existence, disturbances of, 58, 68
- Vaccination as a preserver of weak constitutions, 143
- Vitality, surplus, production of offspring depends on, 169
- Wake, C. Staniland, 21, 42, 66
- Wallace, A. R., 44, 136
- Wallace, Alfred Russell, on prenatal influences, 204
- War and parentage, 199
- War, effects of, on civilization, 199
- War, effects of, on unborn children, 199 et seq.
- War, enemy to the highest motherhood, 204
- Weber, Professor, 114
- Weismann, Professor, 72, 74 et seq., 78, 107, 118
- Wet nurses, use of, accompanied by physical weakness, 208
- Whale, modification of structure of the, 115
- White race, superiority of the, due to consciousness of duty towards the race, 211
- Wolf, Caspar Frederick, 104
- Woman, condition of, among Flat head Indians, 213
- Woman, first duty of, 47
- Woman not superior to man, 212
- Woman, selective action of, in marriage, 32, 43 et seq.
- Women incapable of love inferior as mothers, 208
- Women more numerous than men, 136
- Women, preference for certain characteristics in men, 133
- Xenophon, 15
- Zeigler, Professor, 81, 91