Note 741 — Chapter XXVIII

A. Hegar, “The Sexual Impulse” (Stuttgart, 1894).

[742] A. Ploetz, “Outlines of Racial Hygiene” (Berlin, 1895).

[743] R. Kossmann, “Breeding—Politics” (Schmargendorf—Berlin, 1905).

[744] Max Gruber, “Does Hygiene lead to Racial Degeneration?” published in the Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift, October 6 and 13, 1903.

[745] Francis Galton, “Eugenics: its Definition, Scope, and Aims” (Sociological Society Papers, vols. i. and ii.), 1905; comments on this work by A. Ploetz, published in the Archives for Racial and Social Biology, 1905, vol. ii., pp. 812-829; also W. Schallmayer, “Marriage, Inheritance, and the Ethics of Reproduction,” published in “The Book of the Child,” edited by Adele Schreiber, vol. i., pp. ix-xx (Leipzig and Berlin, 1907); Alfred Grotjahn, “Social Hygiene and the Problem of Degeneration” (Jena, 1904).

[746] Havelock Ellis, “Studies in the Psychology of Sex,” vol. iv.: “Selection in Man.”

[747] Regarding marriage prohibitions, cf. P. Näcke, “Marriage Prohibitions,” published in the Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1906, vol. xxii.; M. Marcuse, “Legislative Marriage Prohibitions for Persons who are Diseased or Deficient Mentally or Physically,” published in Sociale Medizin und Hygiene, 1907, Nos. 2 and 3. It is said that in Dakota medical examination of those who wish to marry is legally prescribed (Archives for Criminal Anthropology, 1903, vol. xi., pp. 266, 267).

[748] See especially the excellent treatise of A. Leppmann, “Alcoholism, Morphinism, and Marriage,” published in Senator-Kaminer, “Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State,” p. 1057 et seq. (London, Rebman Limited, 1906). See also, regarding alcohol as a “Racial Destroyer,” the fundamental study by Alfred Ploetz, “The Significance of Alcohol in Relation to the Life and Development of the Race,” published in the Archives for Racial and Social Biology, 1904, vol. i., pp. 229-253. [English readers should consult the works of Archdall Reid, “The Present Evolution of Man,” “Alcoholism, a Study in Heredity,” and “The Principles of Heredity.”—Translator.]

[749] See also R. Ledermann, “Syphilis and Marriage,” published in Senator-Kaminer, “Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State,” p. 561 (London, Rebman Limited); Alfred Fournier, “Syphilis and Marriage.”

[750] E. Heddaeus, “The Breeding of Healthy Human Beings,” published in the Allgemeine Medizinische Zentral-Zeitung, 1901, No. 6.

[751] A. Wassermann and F. Plaut, “The Occurrence of Syphilitic Antibodies in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of General Paralytics,” published in the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1906, No. 44.

[752] A. Blaschko, “The Influence of Syphilis upon the Duration of Life,” published in the “Transactions of the Fourth International Congress of Medical Examiners in Life Insurance,” pp. 95-149 (Berlin, 1906).

[753] Hans Tilesius, “Syphilis in Relation to Life Insurance,” op. cit., pp. 201-213.

[754] In the great work of Senator-Kaminer (“Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State,” London, Rebman Limited, 1906) we find a detailed account of the circumstances and possibilities which have here to be considered.

[755] Mensinga, “Incapacity for Lactation, and its Cure” (Berlin and Neuwied, 1888).

[756] G. von Bunge, “The Increasing Incapacity of Women to Suckle their Children” (Munich, 1903).

[757] G. Hirth, “The Maternal Breast: its Indispensability and its Education for the Restoration of its Primitive Forces,” published in “Ways to Love,” pp. 1-57.

[758] Emil Abderhalden, “The Question of the Incapacity of Mothers to Suckle their Children,” published in Medizinische Klinik, 1906, No. 45.

[759] A. Hegar, “Atrophy of the Mammary Glands and the Incapacity for Lactation,” published in the Archives for Racial and Social Hygiene, 1905, vol. ii., pp. 830-844.

[760] Cf. F. Kraus, “Blood-Relationship in Marriage and its Consequences to the Offspring,” published in Senator-Kaminer, “Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State,” p. 79 (London, Rebman Limited, 1906).

[761] Charles Darwin, “The Descent of Man,” vol. ii., pp. 354, 355 (London, 1898).

[762] W. Schallmayer, “The Sociological Importance of the Offspring of Talented Persons, and Psychical Inheritance,” published in the Archives of Racial and Social Biology, 1905, vol. ii., pp. 36-75. Cf. also S. R. Steinmetz, “The Offspring of Talented Persons,” published in the Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, 1904, No. 1.

[763] Carl Vogt, “The Ocean and the Mediterranean: Letters of Travel,” vol. ii., pp. 203, 204 (Frankfurt-on-the-Main, 1848).

[764] Alexander von Humboldt (“Journey in Tropical Regions,” vol. ii., p. 17) remarks that in Europe a greatly deformed or hideous girl, if only she possesses property, can marry, and that the children frequently inherit the malformations of the mother; whereas among savage races there exists a natural disinclination to such marriages—a disinclination which money is not able to overcome.