The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual DesireCourier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1897 - 338 pages |
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The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir (Jr.) Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir (Jr.) Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir (Jr.) Affichage du livre entier - 1897 |
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active consciousness Ainu alcohol Aleutians ancient animal atavism atavistic average Aztecs Baubo become believe ceremonies civilized customs cynocephali death debauchery declared degeneration doctrines effemination Egyptians emotion and sexual epilepsy ethical evidence evolution evolved existence fact factor fascinum favorable feeling female female suffrage Fréa frequently ganglionic consciousness genius Germanic ghost girl goddess hallucinations hence hermaphroditism Herodotus hetarism human hypnotic idea impulse Incas increase individual influence insanity Isernia Krafft-Ebing luxury magnetism megalomania melancholia ment mental million of inhabitants moral muscle nature negro nervous observed occult occurred origin phallic rites phallic saints phallic worship phallus phenomena physical and psychical polyandry Priapus priest primitive principle prophets psychical psychical atavism psychos races religio-sexual religion religious emotion Roman sacred says sexual desire society soul speaking suffrage suicide supernatural theogony thousands tion tism tribes victim viraginity Westermarck woman women word writer
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Page 210 - It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other - This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!
Page 47 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
Page 226 - Braid (in my presence) enabled a man so remarkable for the poverty of his physique, that he had not for many years ventured to lift a weight of twenty pounds, to take up a weight of twenty-eight pounds upon his little finger, and swing it around his head, with the greatest apparent ease. Neither Mr. Braid nor his son, both of them powerful men, could do anything like this ; and I could not myself lift the same weight on my little finger to more than half my own height. Trickery in this case was obviously...
Page 62 - The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
Page 119 - ... It is impossible not to admit, from all these results, that some great force acts upon and masters the patients, and that this force appears to reside in the magnetizer. This convulsive state is termed the crisis. It has been observed that many women and few men are subject to such crises; that they are only established after the lapse of two or three hours, and that when one is established, others soon and successively begin.
Page 179 - This head announces the monstrous alliance of the most eminent faculty of man, genius, with the most pronounced impulses to rape, murder, and theft." The purpose of this paper is to show that wherever genius is observed, we find it accompanied by degeneration, which is evinced by physical abnormalties or mental eccentricities.
Page 11 - the first traceable conception of a supernatural being is the conception of a ghost " (Data, p. 281). Here in passing we may note that the word " supernatural," continually employed by the agnostics, belongs, like many others, to an obsolete terminology which has no meaning for the evolutionist. There was no supernatural when there could have been no definition of the natural. In...
Page 233 - It was impossible,' she says, 'by word or act to be quick enough to meet the supposed emergency ; and in fact I found I could not move, for such intense pain came on in the ankle corresponding to the one which I thought the boy would have injured, that I could only put my hand on it to lessen its extreme painfulness.
Page 18 - Mexico is found an incipient civilization. Descending from the Arctic sea we meet races of hunters and traders, which can be called neither primitive nor primordial, living after their fashion as men, not as brutes. It is not until we reach the Golden Mean in Central California that we find whole tribes subsisting on roots, herbs and insects; having no boats, no clothing, no laws, no God; yielding submissively to the first touch of the invader; held in awe by a few priests and soldiers. Men do not...
Page 69 - According to the author just cited, the meetings took place, as a rule, the day before the festival of St. John the Baptist, which, in pagan times, was that of a divinity known by the name of Jarilo, corresponding to the Priapus of the Greeks.