[225] _De Rerum Naturâ_, v, 1016.
[226] Raciborski (_Traité de la Menstruation_, p. 43) quotes the
observation of an experienced breeder of choice cattle to this effect.
[227] "The organs which in the feral state," as Adlerz remarks
(_Biologisches Centralblatt_, No. 4, 1902; quoted in _Science_, May 16,
1902), "are continually exercised in a severe struggle for existence, do
not under domestication compete so closely with one another for the less
needed nutriment. Hence, organs like the reproductive glands, which are
not so directly implicated in self-preservation, are able to avail
themselves of more food."
[228] _Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science_, vol. xliv, 1900, p.
12, 31, 39.
[229] "Love," in _Thoughts on the Education of Daughters_.