Mr. Francis Darwin, in a paper on “Growth Curvatures in Plants,” says of the biologist, Sachs, who had made researches in the same phenomena: “He speaks, too, of custom or use, building up the specialised ‘instinct’ for certain curvatures. (Sachs’ ‘Arbeiten,’ 1879.) These are expressions consistent with our present views.”—(Presidential Address to the Biological Section of the British Association, 1891.)
In the same section was also read a paper by Francis Darwin and Dorothea F. N. Pertz, “On the Artificial Production of Rhythm in Plants,” in which were detailed results very apposite to this “growing of a spurious function.”
8.—“... almost natural use the morbid mode appears.”
“So true is it that unnatural generally only means uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.”—J. S. Mill (“The Subjection of Women,” p. 22).
XXVII.
1.—“Grievous the hurt ...”
Buckle notes one of the many incidental evil results in his “Common Place Book,” Art. 2133:—
“It has been remarked that in our climate women are more frequently affected with insanity than men, and it has been considered very unfavourable to recovery if they should be worse at the time of menstruation, or have their catamenia in very small or immoderate quantities.” (Paris and Fonblanque’s “Medical Jurisprudence,” Vol. I., p. 327).
5.—“... reintegrate in frame and mind.”
“Thus then you have first to mould her physical frame, and then, as the strength she gains will permit you, to fill and temper her mind with all knowledge and thoughts which tend to confirm its natural instincts of justice, and refine its natural tact of love.”—John Ruskin (“Of Queens’ Gardens,” p. 154).