Sexology as the philosophy of life : implying social organization and government / by Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard.

  • Willard, Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Sexology as the philosophy of life : implying social organization and government / by Mrs. Elizabeth Osgood Goodrich Willard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART PIRST. COSMOGONY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. CHAPTER I. GENERAL IDEAS. SEX.*—THEORY AND PRACTICE. As sex runs through all forms of life, and as life depends upon motion, the laws of sex must necessarily belong to the laws of motion, underlying all the powers and forces; all the evolutions and revolutions of the universe. To find the true relations of sex, we must find its origin and its cause, which will take us back to the starting point of all progressive existence. As the conjunction of the two sexual laws is the commencement of organic motion and life, the laws of sex must lie as deep as the constitution of life itself. To solve the mysteries of sex we must therefore solve the problem of life. In doing this we shall not make a vain attempt to accomplish the impossible. I have not the slightest idea that any finite being can peer behind the Infinite, grasp the Absolute, or find a cause for that which is Eternal, and therefore without other cause than necessity.