1874,
p. 198.
[62-1] The most recent work on the topic is that of Messrs. Westropp and
Wake, _The Influence of the Phallic Idea on the Religions of Antiquity_,
London, 1874.
[63-1] Schoolcraft's _History and Statistics of the Indian Tribes_, Vol.
iv. p. 224.
[63-2] Richardson, _Arctic Expedition_, p. 412.
[63-3] Most physicians have occasion to notice the almost entire loss in
modern life of the instinctive knowledge of the sex relation. Sir James
Paget has lately treated of the subject in one of his _Clinical
Lectures_ (London, 1875).
[64-1] Dr. J. P. Catlow, _Principles of Aesthetic Medicine_, p. 112.
This thoughtful though obscure writer has received little recognition
even in the circle of professional readers.
[66-1] This is probably what was condemned in Deuteronomy xxii. 5, and
Romans, i. 26.
[66-2] "The worship of Siva is too severe, too stern for the softer
emotions of love, and all his temples are quite free from any allusions
to it."--Ferguson, _Tree and Serpent Worship_, p. 71.
[67-1] W. von Humboldt, in his admirable essay _Ueber die Maennliche und
Weibliche Form_ (_Werke, Bd. I._). Elsewhere he adds: "In der Natur des
Goettlichen strebt alles der Reinheit und Vollkommenheit des
Gattungsbegriff entgegen."
[68-1] I have collected the Haitian myths, chiefly from the manuscript
_Historia Apologetica de las Indias Occidentales_ of Las Casas, in an
essay published in 1871, _The Arawack Language of Guiana in its
Linguistic and Ethnological Relations_.
[71-1] _The Koran_, Suras,[TN-5] cxii., lxii., and especially xix.
[73-1] _Elements of Medical Psychology_, p. 281.
[73-2] J. Thompson Dickson, _The Science and Practice of Medicine in
relation to Mind_, p. 383 (New York, 1874).
[76-1] Dr. Joseph Williams, _Insanity, its Causes, Prevention and Cure_,
pp. 68, 69; Dr. A. L. Wigan, _The Duality of the Mind_, p. 437.
[78-1] _The Myths of the New World, a Treatise on the Symbolism and
Mythology of the Red Race of America_, p. 145.
[81-1] _Leviathan, De Homine_, cap. xii.
[82-1] For instance, of later writers from whom we might expect better
things, Arthur Schopenhauer. He says in his _Parerga_ (Bd. ii. s. 290):
"Ein gewisser Grad allgemeiner Unwissenheit ist die Bedingung aller
Religionen;" a correct remark, and equally correct of the pursuit of
science and philosophy. But the ignorance which is the condition of such
pursuit is not a part of science or philosophy, and no more is it of
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