[107] Annalles Medico-Psychologiques, S. 7, t. xvi.
[108] Maladies Mentales, p. 215.
“The darkness of her Oriental eye
Accorded with her Moorish origin
(Her blood was not all Spanish, by the by;
In Spain, you know, this is a sort of sin).
When proud Grenada fell, and, forced to fly,
Boabdil wept; of Donna Julia’s kin
Some went to Africa, some stayed in Spain,
Her great-great-grandmamma chose to remain.
“She married (I forget the pedigree)
With an Hidalgo who transmitted down
His blood less noble than such blood should be;
At such alliances his sires would frown,
In that point so precise in each degree
That they bred in and in, as might be shown,
Marrying their cousins—nay, their aunts and nieces,
Which always spoils the breed, if it increases.
“This heathenish cross restored the breed again,
Ruined its blood, but much improved its flesh;
For, from a root, the ugliest in Old Spain,
Sprung up a branch as beautiful as fresh,
The sons no more were short, the daughters plain.”
[110] The origins of the prohibition of incest have lately been fully discussed by Durkheim, L’Année Sociologique, 1898.
[111] Psychological Dictionary, “Consanguinity.”
[112] Bulletin de L’Académie de Médecine, t. xxi. p. 746.
[113] American Medical Bi-Weekly, vol. xii., No. 13.
[114] Mental Hygiene, p. 25.
[115] Intermarriage of Relations, p. 40.