; White: _History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology_; Romanes: _Mental Evolution in Man_; Wallace: _The
Malay Archipelago_ (_The Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago_, c.
xl); Darwin's _Works_; Maudsley: _The Physiology of Mind_; Tylor:
_Anthropology_; Spencer: _Synthetic Philosophy_--_Prin. Psych.,
Prin. Sociol._
[AH] The sense of familiarity implies previous perception now
dissociated, but subconsciously present and struggling up toward
the surface of the upper consciousness to gain recognition. Boris
Sidis: _Multiple Personality_, p. 51.
Belief in the existence of a soul has never been repressed; its utility
is still recognized; hence, it is present in our active consciousness.
The accumulated experiences of civilization have, however, declared the
inutility of phallic worship, hence, it has been crowded out of our
active consciousness by a process of selection and has been relegated to
the innermost recesses of our subliminal consciousness, where also dwell
many other formerly active instincts of our savage ancestors. When
circumstances favoring their appearances occur, these pseudo-dormant
instincts always become evident; it is due to this fact that the
correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire exists.
VIRAGINITY AND EFFEMINATION.
In following up the chain of evolution in animal life from its inception
in primordial protoplasm to its end, as we now find it, we discover that
the interlinking organisms are, in the beginning, either asexual or
hermaphroditic. The moneron, the lowest form of animal life, simply
multiplies by division. The different elements through which propagation
and generation are carried on, are undoubtedly present even in the
moneron, but are not differentiated. The moneron is an organless,
structureless organism, consequently asexual. The cell, on the contrary,
is hermaphroditic, for it contains within itself the necessary elements
for reproducing itself. The am[oe]ba is the connecting link which
connects all terrene life with primitive bathybian protoplasm, and is,
strictly speaking, a true hermaphrodite. Ascending at once to the sixth
stage in the ancestry of man, we come to the _acoelomi_, or worms
without body cavity. These worms are phylogenetic, consequently
hermaphroditic. I do not mean to say that these worms have the organs of
each sex equally developed; therefore, in the use of the word
hermaphrodite, I use it
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