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Such cases of "sex change" fascinate not only tabloid editors but also serious students of the tremendous complexity and almost infinite variations of human hermaphroditism. To sober medical men, it does not seem strange that Nature some times blurs sexual development in men & women. Biologists say there is no such thing as absolute sex. Anatomists recognized a consistent parallelism between the genital structures of male & female. Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female...
...Church is curing a few headaches, reducing several fevers, and healing some lameness; it is serving coffee and sandwiches to the poor and suffering; but it is doing no mighty work. . . . Thinking of God as a glorified Rotarian will never create a disturbance in the human conscience. Until a man has come to an evangelic experience of the conviction of sin, all other doctrines are tinkling brass and sounding cymbals...
...felt at peace, dressed herself fetchingly, waited for her husband's return. He came in carrying the cat, scarcely injured, soon discovered what had happened. When Camille and Alain finally separated forever, the girl thought she could see the cat looking at her as triumphantly as a human being...
Born in Helsingfors in 1862, Dr. Westermarck began his career with The Origin of Human Marriage, published in 1889, has continued it with The History of Human Marriage, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, Ethical Relativity. Professor at the University of London for 23 years, he has gained his reputation on the strength of his careful scholarship and his broad liberal views, and despite his tendency to speak in platitudes...
...Future of Marriage in Western Civilization develops his theory that marriage, which he defined in an earlier volume as "a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of offspring," is fundamental in human society, growing out of the necessities of life in primitive and modern communities. This theory brings him into opposition with such writers as Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that...