[825] Leo Berg, “Geschlechter” (Berlin, 1906).
[826] Prior to the issue of the first edition of the present work, three volumes of Anthropophyteia had appeared, and references to many of the most important papers in these volumes have already been given in the appropriate chapters. While the sixth edition of “The Sexual Life of Our Time” was in the press, in October, 1907, the fourth volume of Anthropophyteia was issued, and constitutes an especially weighty section of this work. Among the contributions are the following: A. Mitrović, “Temporary Marriages in Northern Dalmatia”; Fr. S. Krauss, “Selective Marriages in Bosnia”; H. E. Luedecke, “Erotic Tattooing”; W. von Bülow, “The Sexual Life of the Samoans”; F. Wernert, “Tales of the German Peasantry” (of an erotic character); A. Mitrović, “A Visit to a Sorceress in Northern Dalmatia”; Krauss, Mitrović, and Wernert, “The Sense of Smell in the Sexual Life”; B. Laufer, “A Japanese Spring Picture”; O. Knapp, “The ‘ολισβος’ of the Hellenes”; A. Kind, “Coitus and the Sexual Instinct”; K. Amrain, “The Increase of Virile Potency”; H. E. Luedecke, “Eroticism and Numismatics”; V. S. Karadžić, “Erotic and Skatological Proverbs and Locutions of the Servians”; Luedecke, “Elements of Skatology”; Fr. S. Krauss, “Slavonic Popular Traditions regarding Sexual Intercourse.”
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE OUTLOOK
“A happy man is he who in his individuality possesses an instrument upon which the world can play with all its wealth of powers. To him the sexual will be a means by which he will be enabled to grasp the innermost of life, to understand its most painful sorrows and its most intoxicating delights, to plumb its most frightful abysses and to scale its most shining summits.”—Rosa Mayreder.
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XXXIII
The future of human love — Indications of progress and of a happier configuration of the sexual life — Relationship of sexuality to intimate individual love — The categorical imperative of the sexual life — The association of love with the work of life — Love and personality.