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
_Meyer, 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, 1
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
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The word "diarrhoea" uses an oe ligature in the original.
The following corrections have been made to the text:
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apprehension"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 25: "that the difference between men and the animals is
forgotten in them."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 62: _The Philosophical[original has Philosphical] Journal_
for October 5, 1895
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mark]for the pain
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Krafft-Ebings[original has Kraft-Ebings]
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will."[quotation mark missing in original]
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like the ones in which it was formed
Page 109: theories of heredity--Haeckel's[original has
Heckel's], for instance
Page 112: without the transmission[original has transmision] of
the effects of the use
Page 141: to give continuous[original has continous] food,
warmth and protection
Page 164: the ape, the dog, the cat or other animal."[quotation
mark missing in original]
Page 164: clear, round germinal vesicle[original has vescicle]
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themselves
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and hopeful disposition
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has abstainence]
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has comma]
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has excitments]
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Page 213: mind as well as heart,[comma missing in original]
vigor as well as sympathy
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rumpled his hair
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the, 71, 73, 77,[comma missing in original] 79
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seq._,[comma missing in original] 34
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