A special and detailed study of the normal characters of the sexual impulse in men seems unnecessary.

We may trace the same influence subtly lurking even in the most would-be scientific statements of anthropologists and physicians today.

The seeming reluctance of the female is not intended to inhibit sexual activity either in the male or in herself, but to increase it in both.

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The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive.

The genius of the place defend me!"—Ben Jonson's Masqu

The history of the delusion appears, in a manner, lost from this time till the eighth century, when it appeared amongst the Arabians.

This alchymist has left a more distinguished reputation.

An undue opinion of our own importance in the scale of creation is at the bottom of all our unwarrantable notions in this respect.

Paracelsus boasted of being able to transplant diseases from the human frame into the earth, by means of the magnet.