The Marriage of Near Kin Considered with Respect to the Laws of Nations, the Results of Experience and the Teachings of Biology |
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affinity animals Anthropologie aunt average birth blood born Boudin brother and sister canon cause cent child Civilisation clans common Comptes Rendus congenital deaf-mutes consanguineous marriages Consanguinité considered cousins crosses d'Anthrop Darwin daughter deaf deaf-mutes Deceased Wife's Sister descending Devay died young disease divided exogamy father females first-cousins once removed forbidden four Gazette Gerland girl half-breeds healthy children hence Henry VIII hetairism husband hydrocephalus Ibid Iceland idiocy idiots in-and-in breeding incest inhabitants inheritance insane intermarry Ipai island Jews Journal Kamilaroi les Mar live London M.L.D.U. Tracts male Mariages Consanguins marriage between first-cousins marriage between second-cousins Marriage Law McLennan Mém Mestisos mother offspring Pall Mall Gazette parents Paris Périer persons polygamy population probably prohibited degrees proved barren race Reich relationship relatives reported result riages Roman says scrofulous self-fertilised third-cousins tribe trismus uncle and niece village Waitz wife wives women
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Page 314 - O! why did God Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine j Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 56 - After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do : and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Page 25 - ... discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
Page 122 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.
Page 127 - No person shall marry within the degrees prohibited by the laws of God, and expressed in a table set forth by authority in the year of our Lord God 1563. And all marriages so made and contracted shall be adjudged incestuous and unlawful, and consequently shall be dissolved as void from the beginning, and the parties so married, shall by course of law be separated. And the aforesaid table shall be in every church publicly set up, and fixed at the charge of the parish.
Page 306 - He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought...
Page 243 - Maravigliosa cosa è ad udire quello che io debbo dire : il che, se dagli occhi di molti e da' miei non fosse stato veduto, appena che io ardissi di crederlo, non che di scriverlo, quantunque da fededegna persona udito l'avessi.
Page 331 - There are two other important conclusions which may be deduced from my observations : firstly, that the advantages of cross-fertilisation do not follow from some mysterious virtue in the mere union of two distinct individuals, but from such individuals having been subjected during previous generations to different conditions, or to their having varied in a manner commonly called spontaneous, so that in either case their sexual elements have been in some degree differentiated. And secondly, that the...
Page 124 - And that no reservation or prohibition, God's law except, shall trouble or impeach any marriage without the Levitical degrees.
Page 328 - It is an astonishing fact that self-fertilisation should not have been an habitual occurrence. It apparently demonstrates to us that there must be something injurious in the process. Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors perpetual self-fertilisation.