| STIRPICULTURE. |
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| Plato's Restrictions on Parentage; Lycurgan Laws;Plutarch on the Training of Children; InfanticideAmong the Greeks; Group Marriage; MakingChildren the Property of the State; GrecianMethods Not Suitable to Our Time; SexualSelection; Difficulties in the Way; An Experimentin Stirpiculture; Intermarriage; Woman'sSelective Action; Man's and Woman's Co-operation;The Individual's Rights; Spiritual Sympathyin Marriage; | [9] |
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| PRENATAL CULTURE. |
| Jacob's Flocks; An Illustrative Case; Beliefs ofPrimitive Peoples; Birthmarks Rare; Why ChildrenResemble Parents; Life's Experiences AffectingChild; Germ-plasm; Congenital Deformities;Psychical Diseases; Telegony; Power ofHeredity; Sobriety in the Father; Sacredness ofParentage; Self-control; | [55] |
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| HEREDITY AND EDUCATION. |
| Theories; Continuity of the Germ-plasm; A RationalView of Heredity; Heredity and the Educationof Children; Intellectual Acquirements; Instinct;Knowledge or Heredity; Individuality; Spectreof Heredity; | [100] |
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| EVOLUTION'S HOPEFUL PROMISE FOR AHEALTHIER RACE. |
| Sexual Selection; Human Selection; Natural Selection;Conflict between Evolutionary Theoriesand our Humane Sentiments; Ideal of Health;Adaptation to Environment; Knowledge; Effectsof Living at High Pressure; Girls in ManufacturingDistricts; Co-operation: an Example;Hygiene; | [130] |
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| THE GERM-PLASM; ITS RELATION TO OFFSPRING. |
| What is the Germ-plasm? The Primitive Egg; Fertilizationof the Mother-cell Necessary to ProduceTrue Germ-plasm; What Fertilization Does;Its Process; Helps to Explain Heredity; Healthof the Germ-plasm Necessary in Stirpiculture;Surplus Vitality Necessary for Producing theBest Children; Duncan's Statistics as to Ages ofParents of Finest Children; Effects of Alcoholon Offspring; Food and the Germ-plasm; Effectof Air and Water on Germ-plasm; Effect of Diseaseson Germ-plasm; Every Child Born an Experiment; | [162] |
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| FEWER AND BETTER CHILDREN. |
| Darwin's Opinions; Race Modifications by NaturalSelection; Grant Allen's Views; Spencer's Viewson Parental Duties; Limiting Offspring Amongthe Natives of Uganda; The Fijians; Childrenof Large Families often Superior to those inSmall Families; Some Reasons for this; | [179] |
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| A THEORETICAL BABY. |
| Our First Baby; We had Theories; What Some ofThem Were; My Wife's Love for Me; My Sentiments;The Child's Easy Birth; Mother's RapidConvalescence; The Child's First Bath; FormingGood Habits Early; No Crying at Night;Never Rocked to Sleep; His Bed; Keeping theStomach and Bowels Right; Colic, Irritabilityand the Necessity for Diapers Eliminated; Numberof Meals Daily; The Infant's Clothing; AtOne Year Old; Teething Gives Little Trouble;Requires Considerable Water; Learning to Creep,Stand, Walk and Talk by His Own Efforts; InventsHis Own Amusements; CompanionshipWith Parents; Mothering; Learning Self-control;Obedience; Playmates; | [184] |
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| Notes | [199] |
