The human element in sex : a consideration of facts in relation to the physical and mental organisation of men and women, addressed to students of medicine / by E. Blackwell.
- Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The human element in sex : a consideration of facts in relation to the physical and mental organisation of men and women, addressed to students of medicine / by E. Blackwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![as it grows from lower to higher states of society. Thoughts, feelings, and attractions, socia] ties, con- science, religious training, and the purposes of life, all work upon the distinctive mental element in human sex, changing its character to a very complex faculty, and intensifying the predominance of the mental element, a predominance strikingly shown in a perverted form by the frequent result of unhappy love, viz., suicide, or insanity. The idea of chastity is a gradual growth of the human race. The men and the women of savage tribes are grossly unchaste. Chastity is not a primitive virtue. It only becomes a guiding principle in the higher races of men, as its fundamental influence on human progress is understood, and it is seen that the prevalence of mental and physical purity, is the most powerful method of creating a strong and enduring race. It requires the larger intellectual vision gained by mankind, as their faculties unfold to the true human feype, to understand the strength gained by the self- government of purity, and to observe the increasing degradation conuected inevitably with licence. This sequence of degradation is constantly observed in the deterioration produced by corrupt sexual relationships ; first corruption between men and women, then between men and men, between women and women, &c. This descending scale of corruption with its results on](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22279052_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
