[460] We must not omit to mention the fact that a little earlier the French physician Moreau de Tours published a comprehensive work upon psychopathia sexualis, entitled “Des Aberrations du Sens Génésique” (Paris, 1880).
[461] S. Freud, “Three Essays in Contribution to the Sexual Theory,” p. 70.
[462] Cf. the interesting remarks of G. H. C. Lippert, “Mankind in a State of Nature,” p. 1 et seq. (Elberfeld, 1818).
[463] Christian Muff, “What is Civilization?” pp. 30, 31 (Halle, 1880).
[464] G. L. N. Delvincourt, “De la Mucite Génito-Sexuelle,” p. 64 (Paris, 1834). Apt remarks on the alleged degeneration of the French are to be found also in the work of P. Näcko, “The Alleged Degeneration of the Latin Races, more Especially of the French,” published in Archives for Racial and Social Biology, 1906, vol. iii.
[465] As, for example, Immermann, in his work “Epigonen,” published at the same period (1836), assumes. In the mouth of the physician he puts the following words: “The physician has a great task to perform in the present day. Diseases, especially nervous troubles, to which for a number of years the human race has been especially disposed, are a modern product.” Cf. Leopold Hirschberg, “Medical Matters as dealt with in General Literature: the Judgment of a Member of the Laity regarding Nervousness in the Year 1876,” published in Medizinische Wochenschrift, 1906, No. 41, p 428. Seventy years ago the German people was “nervous”; thirty-four years before Sedan, thirty years after Jena! Therefore neither Jena nor Sedan can be connected with the nervous “degeneration.” The authors of the eighteenth century (!) made similar complaints of the nervousness of their time, upon which Cullen and Brown founded their medical theories.
[466] J. Pohl-Pincus, “The Diseases of the Human Hair, and the Care of the Hair,” third edition, p. 57 (Leipzig, 1885).
[467] Carl Bleibtreu, “Paradoxes the Conventional Lies,” sixth edition, pp. 1, 2 (Berlin, 1888).
[468] See “Nature and Man,” E. Ray Lankester’s Romanes Lecture, 1905.—Translator.
[469] G. Hirth, “Hereditary Enfranchisement,” published in “Ways to Freedom,” pp. 106-127 (Munich, 1903).