Note 44 — Chapter I
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
Artificial love itself, with all the complexity of ideas which it is supposed must thence arise, is not, as one may think, the debauchery of civilisation; it belongs to animals akin to man as well as to man himself. See Ch. Robin and Béraud, Précis de la Physiologie de l’Homme, vol. ii, p. 384. It is the same with impure connection, or coupling, radically inexplicable by instinct. See Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire Naturelle Générale des Règnes Organiques, vol. iii, p. 142.