Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    motion,—the orbicular muscle of the lips being then merely the first ring of the prime vie. Of the second variety of this species, conscious and voluntary instinct, we have one example in the more enlightened, though still unreasoning, duckling. With the agreeable consciousness of aqueous vapour impressing its olfactory nerves, it voluntarily travels to the pond which is its source, and casting itself on the surface, finds that it floats thereon. Another example is afforded in the case men- tioned by Galen. “On dissecting a goat great with young,” he says, “I found a brisk embryon, and having detached it from the matrix, and snatched it away before it saw its dam, I brought it into a room, where there were many vessels, some filled with wine, others with oil, some with honey, others with milk or some other liquor, and in others there were grains and fruits. We first observed the young animal get upon its feet and walk; then it shook itself, and afterwards scratched its side with one of its feet; then we saw it smelling to every one of these things that were set in the room, and when it had smelt to them all, it drank up the milk.” There are no mysteries ininstinct ; though some mystics contend for them. Thus they talk of a wonderful instinct directing the bee to form cells