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SECRET OF REJUVENATION: Law of Attraction for Health, Energy & Longevity - William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Regenerative Power Vital Rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Regeneration.
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Speaker 1: In this book, we shall present for your consideration certain
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Speaker 1: facts and principles concerning the conservation and the efficient employment
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Speaker 1: of the life forces or vital force generally known as vitality,
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Speaker 1: or rather of certain of its subtle forms. This instruction
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Speaker 1: precedes along lines which are not generally recognized by or
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Speaker 1: known to the average individual, although the facts and principles
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Speaker 1: in question were known to the ancient sages and have
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Speaker 1: been taught and practiced for many centuries by many persons
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Speaker 1: who have had the benefit of this ancient wisdom, which
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Speaker 1: was formerly the exclusive property of the secret schools of
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Speaker 1: esoteric philosophy in Oriental lands and in ancient Greece. This
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Speaker 1: knowledge also was imparted thousands of years ago by the
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Speaker 1: great Hindu sages to their chosen pupils, and formed a
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Speaker 1: part of the occult instruction given to the student of
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Speaker 1: the Inner Teaching of the Brahmins and Buddhists of that land.
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Speaker 1: There is every reason to believe that a similar teaching
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Speaker 1: was given the neophytes in the occult schools of ancient Persia.
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Speaker 1: Chaldea and Egypt. References to it are also found in
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Speaker 1: the esoteric writings of the ancient Hebrews. It was taught
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Speaker 1: in the mysteries of the arcane schools of ancient Greece,
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Speaker 1: and was taken over from this source by the Neoplatonists
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Speaker 1: and the Gnostics of the early centuries of the Christian era.
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Speaker 1: It was also a part of the teaching of the Essenes,
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Speaker 1: that strange school of esoteric wisdom which believed to have
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Speaker 1: exerted a strong influence upon the early Christian Church. But here,
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Speaker 1: as in many other instances, the knowledge which originally was
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Speaker 1: held to be based upon the existence and activity of
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Speaker 1: certain hidden in secret forces of nature, or perhaps even
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Speaker 1: upon actual supernatural powers, is now known to be but
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Speaker 1: a scientific statement of purely natural cause and effect, arising
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Speaker 1: from the power and activity of simple elemental forces of nature,
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Speaker 1: which always have existed and have been operative, but which
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Speaker 1: have been comparatively unknown to the great masses of people.
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Speaker 1: Science has dispelled much of the mystery of the ancient
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Speaker 1: philosophies and religions, but it has served also to corroborate
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Speaker 1: their original facts. Thus, electricity and magnetism, long known to
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Speaker 1: the ancients, and ascribed by them to supernatural causes, have
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Speaker 1: been brought under the authority of natural law, and then
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Speaker 1: harnessed and made to work efficiently in the service of man. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: for many centuries, the phenomena of mental influence were known
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Speaker 1: to the ancients and ascribed by them to occult and
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Speaker 1: supernatural causes. Modern science was at first disposed to deny
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Speaker 1: such phenomena and to regard the whole belief as pure superstition. However,
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Speaker 1: in time their true causes were discovered, and the subjects
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Speaker 1: of hypnotism and mental suggestion is now taught in the
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Speaker 1: highest schools, and is given a place in all of
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Speaker 1: the authoritative text books. So it has been and is
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Speaker 1: with this phase or form of vital power or life force,
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Speaker 1: which constantly utes the subject of our present consideration. For
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Speaker 1: many centuries and in many lands, it formed a part
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Speaker 1: of the esoteric instruction, in the secret schools of the
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Speaker 1: occult philosophies, and in the temples of the ancient religions.
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Speaker 1: Its principles of application were discovered and methods for their
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Speaker 1: employment were evolved. It was taught only to the chosen few,
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Speaker 1: being regarded as a precious secret to be withheld from
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Speaker 1: the masses and to be reserved for the elect. It
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Speaker 1: was believed to be supernatural in origin and nature, and
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Speaker 1: was treated with an almost religious awe and veneration. In fact,
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Speaker 1: in many cases it formed a part of the inner
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Speaker 1: and higher religious teachings of the priesthood, from which the
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Speaker 1: laity were debarred. Later, it formed a part of the
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Speaker 1: secret and occult doctrines which were held and taught by
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Speaker 1: the arcane schools of philosophy in the Middle Ages, traces
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Speaker 1: of which are now found in the rituals of many
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Speaker 1: of the modern secret orders in societies, though their real
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Speaker 1: meaning and spirit has been lost, and only the verbal
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Speaker 1: outer covering or shell remains. It was this knowledge which
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Speaker 1: was the real and true underlying reason for the advocacy
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Speaker 1: of celibacy in the priesthoods and holy orders of many religions,
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Speaker 1: including those of the early Christian Church. It was this
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Speaker 1: knowledge which was the animating spirit of the early schools
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Speaker 1: and orders of asceticism, which afterward developed into fanatical phases
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Speaker 1: and forms, the true spirit and meaning of the teaching
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Speaker 1: having been lost, Modern science, true to its customary procedure,
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Speaker 1: for a long time, was disposed to regard this ancient
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Speaker 1: teaching as fantastic, superstition, ignorance, and supernaturalism, and to deny
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Speaker 1: to it any virtue or validity. However, in time, the
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Speaker 1: physiologists discovered the existence and activity of certain principles concerned
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Speaker 1: with the reproductive organism and with its effect and action
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Speaker 1: upon the entire physical and mental system of the individual.
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Speaker 1: The investigations and observations of the effect of certain glands
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Speaker 1: of the body upon general health and vigor gave new
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Speaker 1: interest to the subject, and certain recent expels Farris along
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Speaker 1: the lines of gland transplantation have revealed marvelous results. There
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Speaker 1: is every indication that the present century is destined to
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Speaker 1: witness many important discoveries along these particular lines. However, it
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Speaker 1: is not necessary to wait for these anticipated discoveries in
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Speaker 1: order to benefit by what is already known to careful
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Speaker 1: thinkers concerning this subject. While such discoveries may be regarded
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Speaker 1: by some as necessary before the seal of authority of
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Speaker 1: science may be formally placed upon the general principles and
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Speaker 1: facts concerned with the general subject, Nevertheless, there are thousands
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Speaker 1: of careful investigators and conservative thinkers who feel that sufficient
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Speaker 1: is already known concerning these facts and principles to justify
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Speaker 1: their being accepted as a basis for theory and practice
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Speaker 1: by all persons of average intelligence. Such individuals have long
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Speaker 1: known of these facts and principles, and have had practical
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Speaker 1: demonstrations of their value to mankind when properly and intelligently applied.
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Speaker 1: The essence and spirit of this body of knowledge, principle,
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Speaker 1: and mass of facts is indicated by the term regeneration,
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Speaker 1: employed with a special meaning in content. We ask you
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Speaker 1: to consider carefully this term in such special meaning, to
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Speaker 1: the end that you may catch the spirit of the
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Speaker 1: idea and principle embodied in it, as we have sought
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Speaker 1: to impress upon you in other volumes of this series.
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Speaker 1: It is always well to begin with a clear understanding
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Speaker 1: of the principal terms employed in a discussion, argument, or
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Speaker 1: presentation of a proposition or principle to know just what
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Speaker 1: is being considered and discussed. So many terms are employed,
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Speaker 1: with so many different shades of meaning, and often with
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Speaker 1: forms of meaning quite opposed to each other, that it
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Speaker 1: is always proper to investigate a term employed in a
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Speaker 1: particular sense in order to ascertain just what is sought
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Speaker 1: to be indicated by it and is involved in its content.
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Speaker 1: The term regeneration, of course, is derived from the term generation.
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Speaker 1: The prefix re means again, a new, et cetera. The
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Speaker 1: term generation means the act, process, or result of generating,
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Speaker 1: and is derived from the verb to generate. The term
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Speaker 1: generate means to beget, to produce, to engender, to cause,
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Speaker 1: to be, to bring into life, to originate, especially by
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Speaker 1: means of a vital or chemical process. It is usually
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Speaker 1: employed in the sense of begetting, reproduction or procreation, or
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Speaker 1: the production of the young of animal or plant life.
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Speaker 1: Regeneration is defined as the act of regenerating, or of
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Speaker 1: generating or producing a new and in a special sense
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Speaker 1: of giving new life, strength, or vigor to a living being.
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Speaker 1: A person is said to be regenerated physically when by
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Speaker 1: any means or method he acquires new life, new energy,
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Speaker 1: new vigor. The theologians, recognizing the strength of the word, employed
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Speaker 1: it more or less figuratively in the sense of being
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Speaker 1: born anew in san spirit. In such usage, the term
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Speaker 1: is frequently employed in theological expression and religious teaching. This
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Speaker 1: theological usage, however, is noted here merely for the purpose
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Speaker 1: of general statement. Our present employment of the term has
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Speaker 1: no reference whatever to such special usage and meaning in
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Speaker 1: the special meaning of the term regeneration, which has grown
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Speaker 1: around it in the course of thought along the lines
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Speaker 1: of our subject, that giving of new life strength or
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Speaker 1: vigor to the individual is literally true and not merely figurative.
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Speaker 1: By means of such regeneration, the individual is given continued
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Speaker 1: new life strength and vigor, mental as well as physical.
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Speaker 1: Just as every living thing has been given original life
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Speaker 1: strength and vigor by generation, so may it be given
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Speaker 1: new life strength and vigor by regeneration. In both generation
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Speaker 1: and regeneration. Moreover, the same potent forces of nature are
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Speaker 1: involved and set into activity, i e. The forces concerned
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Speaker 1: with the sexual or reproductive organism. The secret doctrine inner teaching,
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Speaker 1: arcane wisdom, et cetera, of the ancient philosophies and religions,
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Speaker 1: and of the more modern secret societies and schools concerning
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Speaker 1: the secret of regeneration is this Nature's generative power may
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Speaker 1: be employed as regenerative power. The same forces which bring
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Speaker 1: man into life strength and vigor will renew and reproduce
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Speaker 1: his life strength and vigor if rightly applied and directed.
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Speaker 1: This is a somewhat startling doctrine when announced for the
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Speaker 1: first time to the average individual. To him, it seems
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Speaker 1: contrary to common sense and opposed to common experience. It
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Speaker 1: is only when he begins to understand the basic principles
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Speaker 1: of the idea, and when the misconceptions concerning it have
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Speaker 1: been removed by explanation, that the light begins to dawn
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Speaker 1: upon him. Wen b has fully grasped the fundamental principles
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Speaker 1: and the essential reasoning involved in the idea, he tends
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Speaker 1: toward becoming quite enthusiastic innscs concerning it, and to him
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Speaker 1: it seems self evident. The more he considers it, the
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Speaker 1: more reasonable and certain does it become. And when he
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Speaker 1: learns of the discoveries of modern science concerning it, he
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Speaker 1: passes beyond the point of possible doubt or distrust. Before
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Speaker 1: presenting to you the conclusions of advanced modern scientific thought
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Speaker 1: concerning this subject of regeneration, we shall ask you to
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Speaker 1: undertake a general, brief and cursory consideration of the history
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Speaker 1: of this idea of regeneration as it was conceived by
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Speaker 1: the ancient philosophers and sages. This not only because of
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Speaker 1: the general interest connected with such consideration, but also that
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Speaker 1: hereafter you may recognize the hidden in cryptic references to
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Speaker 1: regeneration which appear in many of the old mystic, occult
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Speaker 1: and esoteric writings and formulas, among those of alchemy as
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Speaker 1: well as those of mysticism. An understanding of this will
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Speaker 1: throw light on many hitherto dark subjects, and will prove
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Speaker 1: the key which will unlock the doors of many old
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Speaker 1: and strange doctrines. In the light of modern knowledge. Many
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Speaker 1: of these old presentations of occult knowledge may be read
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Speaker 1: and studied with profit, but without this light they will
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Speaker 1: ever remain dark subjects to the modern student. The attention
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Speaker 1: of the ancient thinkers was directed from the very first
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Speaker 1: to the mystery of reproduction, the miracle of generation. Observing
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Speaker 1: the operations of its laws in plant and animal life,
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Speaker 1: and noting that the essence of life seemed to be
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Speaker 1: concentrated into the tiny seed of the plant or the animal,
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Speaker 1: they soon came to realize that nature here manifested a
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Speaker 1: marvelous power of concentration of the life forces into a
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Speaker 1: small space. Consequently, they regarded such concentrated vital force with
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Speaker 1: a religious awe, and considered it to be supernatural. Further
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Speaker 1: observations concerning the effect of sexual mutilation upon animals and men,
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Speaker 1: and of the changes wrought in mind and body by
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Speaker 1: the quickening of the reproductive power in puberty and adolescence,
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Speaker 1: and by the decrease of such power in old age,
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Speaker 1: led these ancient thinkers to the conclusion that in the
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Speaker 1: generative forces were to be found a highly concentrated essence
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Speaker 1: of life, which, if properly controlled and directed, was capable
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Speaker 1: of renewing and continuing the vital strength and vigor of
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Speaker 1: the individual almost indefinitely. In the very ancient yoga philosophy
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Speaker 1: of the Hindus, dating back to long before the Christian era,
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Speaker 1: are found many references to this control and application of
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Speaker 1: this regenerative power, ie of the generative power employed for
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Speaker 1: the purpose of increasing maintaining the mental and physical energy, strength,
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Speaker 1: and vigor of the individual in addition to its more
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Speaker 1: familiar offices and activities. This regenerative power was known as
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Speaker 1: the adjas and was conceived as of a fiery, ardent,
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Speaker 1: highly concentrated, in highly active nature. It was taught that
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Speaker 1: by means of the direction of the adjas along certain
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Speaker 1: physical and psychical channels, not only might the yogi greatly
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Speaker 1: increase his physical strength, energy, and vigor, but that he
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Speaker 1: might also thereby cultivate great mental powers in psychic qualities.
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Speaker 1: Swamither of A Kananda, the celebrated Hindu teacher who visited
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Speaker 1: Europe and America about thirty years ago and who taught
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Speaker 1: yoga to Western students for several years, says of this
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Speaker 1: adja's force in his book entitled Raja Yoga. The Yogis
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Speaker 1: claim that of all the energies that the human body comprises,
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Speaker 1: the highest is that what they call ajas. Now this
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Speaker 1: ajas is stored up in the brain. And the more
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Speaker 1: the adjas is in a man's head, the more powerful
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Speaker 1: he is, the more intellectual, the more spiritually strong will
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Speaker 1: that man be. This is the action of ajas. One
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Speaker 1: man may speak beautiful language and beautiful thoughts, but they
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Speaker 1: do not impress people. Another man speaks neither beautiful language
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Speaker 1: nor beautiful thoughts, yet his words charm. That is the
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Speaker 1: power of Adja's coming out. Every movement coming from him
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Speaker 1: will be powerful. Now in mankind there is more or
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Speaker 1: less of this adjas stored up, and all the forces
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Speaker 1: that are working in the body in their highest form. Becausejas,
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Speaker 1: you must remember that it is only a question of transformation.
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Speaker 1: The same force which is working outside as electricity or
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Speaker 1: magnetism will become changed into inner force. The same forces
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Speaker 1: that are working as muscular energy will be changed into adjas.
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Speaker 1: The Yogis say that that part of the human energy,
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Speaker 1: which is expressed as sex energy in sexual functions, sexual thought,
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Speaker 1: and so on, when checked and controlled, easily becomes changed
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Speaker 1: into adjas. And as this lowest center is the one
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Speaker 1: which guides all these functions, therefore the yogi pays particular
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Speaker 1: attention to that center. He tries to take up all
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Speaker 1: this sexual energy and convert it into adjas. It is
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Speaker 1: only the chased man or woman who can make the
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Speaker 1: ajas rise and become stored in the brain. And that
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Speaker 1: is why chastity has always been considered the highest virtue.
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Speaker 1: Because man feels that if he is unchased spirituality goes away,
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Speaker 1: he loses mental vigor and strong moral stamina. That is
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Speaker 1: why an all of the religious orders in the world
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Speaker 1: that have produced spiritual giants, you will always find this
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Speaker 1: intense chastity insisted upon. That is why the monks came
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Speaker 1: into existence giving up marriage. There must be perfect chastity
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Speaker 1: in thought, word and deed. Without it, the practice of
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Speaker 1: raja yoga is dangerous and may lead to insanity. If
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Speaker 1: people practice raja yoga and at the same time lead
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Speaker 1: an impure life, how can they expect to become yogis.
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Speaker 1: The above is not merely the personal teaching of Vivekananda.
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Speaker 1: It is his statement of the teaching of the Yoga philosophy,
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Speaker 1: which was established several thousand years ago, long before our
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Speaker 1: present era. Its essential idea is found to permeate many
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Speaker 1: of the modern Hindu philosophies and religions, though in many
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Speaker 1: cases it has become corrupted by the loss of its
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Speaker 1: original spirit and has developed into fanatical asceticism and a
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Speaker 1: degradation of the idea of sex and reproduction. The original
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Speaker 1: idea of the teaching was that sex is not impure,
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Speaker 1: but that in their proper place and use, its activities
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Speaker 1: are proper and normal, but that in its perverted excesses
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Speaker 1: and misuse, it becomes an evil. Regeneration is upheld not
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Speaker 1: because generation is wrong, but because regeneration is an additional
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Speaker 1: field for the expression manifestation of the concentrated vital force
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Speaker 1: present in the system of man. The ancient Buddhists also
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Speaker 1: held that regeneration was a function and office of the
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Speaker 1: creative powers present in the sexual organism. They held that
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Speaker 1: the will to live, that active principle which is the
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Speaker 1: cause of creation, exists in its most concentrated and potent
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Speaker 1: form in the sexual energy, and that the latter may
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Speaker 1: be employed not only in generation, but also in regeneration.
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Speaker 1: This regeneration, they taught, produces great mental and spiritual strength,
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Speaker 1: energy and vigor, which, if directed intelligently, will develop even
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Speaker 1: supernormal powers of mind and body in the individual. They held,
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Speaker 1: in some cases that this creative energy or will to live,
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Speaker 1: would carry the individual beyond the necessity of physical life
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Speaker 1: in reincarnated forms, and would deliver him from the weal
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Speaker 1: of life and thereby enable him to reach Nirvana. The
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Speaker 1: ancient Egyptians also taught a similar doctrine. In the esoteric
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Speaker 1: and Secretisis cult, the creative principle or life energy, was
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Speaker 1: conceived as feminine. The neophyte was taught that by a
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Speaker 1: conservation of this life energy and a refusal to expend
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Speaker 1: it in generation, it might be transmuted into vital force, which,
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Speaker 1: by the process of regeneration, would vitalize animate and vivify
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Speaker 1: the body and mind of the person. And give to
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Speaker 1: him psychical and spiritual powers which are surely superhuman and
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Speaker 1: possibly supernatural as well. This teaching was withheld from the
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Speaker 1: common people, being reserved for the elect. It was held
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Speaker 1: that in certain cases, the mortal man might even be
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Speaker 1: transformed into a god by means of the efficient employment
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Speaker 1: of the power of regeneration. The ancient Jews, in their
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Speaker 1: esoteric teachings and doctrines, held to the truth of a
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Speaker 1: similar belief and practice. Constant references to it are found
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Speaker 1: in the Kabbalah and in other occult Hebrew writings. Some
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Speaker 1: of these ancient writers taught that the story of Adam
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Speaker 1: and Eve is merely an allegorical representation of this principle.
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Speaker 1: This theory held that Adam and Eve represented the male
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Speaker 1: and female human beings as they were Originally. These beings
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Speaker 1: were destined to live forever, their creative energy being constantly
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Speaker 1: turned inward in the processes of regeneration. They were tempted
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Speaker 1: by the suggestions of an evil spirit, and thereafter turned
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Speaker 1: their creative energy into the channels of generation and away
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Speaker 1: from those of regeneration, thereby perpetuating the race as a whole,
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Speaker 1: but bringing death to its individual members. The neo Platonists
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Speaker 1: and the Gnostics, two great schools of mystical philosophy which
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Speaker 1: flourished in the early centuries of the Christian era, taught
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Speaker 1: the doctrine of regeneration in various forms, and many of
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Speaker 1: the members of the early Christian Church were influenced by it.
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Speaker 1: These schools obtained their teaching from both Oriental and ancient
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Speaker 1: Greek sources. The ancient Greek mysteries included teaching and practice
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Speaker 1: of regeneration. Gradually, however, the spirit of the teaching was lost,
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Speaker 1: and all that was left was the pitiful husk of
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Speaker 1: perverted asceticism and a degradation of the sexual ideals. Sex
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Speaker 1: grew to be considered unclean, repression and asceticism became gloried
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Speaker 1: as holy. The influence of this perversion misapplication of the
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Speaker 1: original teaching and doctrine is felt even unto this day.
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Speaker 1: In the Middle Ages, the alchemists and occult philosophers devoted
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Speaker 1: much attention to the subject of regeneration. Frequent references to
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Speaker 1: it under the figurative term the elixir of life are
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Speaker 1: found in old writings of these thinkers. Legends inform us
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Speaker 1: that some of these ancients developed the power and ability
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Speaker 1: to live far beyond the allotted lifetime of man and
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Speaker 1: retain their full vigor, strength, and vital energies to the last.
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Speaker 1: The masses of people thought that the elixir of life
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Speaker 1: was a cordial or tincture of wonderful properties, but those
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Speaker 1: who knew the secret code realized that this potent elixir
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Speaker 1: was not but the highly concentrated creative energies of man
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Speaker 1: existing in potency and latency in his reproductive organism, the
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Speaker 1: same being transmuted into an inner vitality, instead of being
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Speaker 1: dissipated in lustful practices or expended in the functions of generation.
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Speaker 1: In this fundamental idea of regeneration, then, is to be
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Speaker 1: found the true explanation of the universal insistence upon chastity, continence,
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Speaker 1: and often upon celibacy on the part of the priests
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Speaker 1: and great spiritual leaders, as well as on the part
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Speaker 1: of the great occultists and partakers of the mysteries. This
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Speaker 1: was not, as generally supposed, because of any idea of
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Speaker 1: the essential impurity of sex, but rather because of the
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Speaker 1: belief that the higher powers of man, physical, mental, psychical,
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Speaker 1: and spiritual, were increased in power and efficiency by means
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Speaker 1: of the practice of regeneration rather than that of generation,
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Speaker 1: the turning of the creative energy inward rather than outward.
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Speaker 1: It was the idea of creation on the mental, psychical,
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Speaker 1: and spiritual planes rather than upon the plane of materiality
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Speaker 1: in the physical that was back of this common custom
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Speaker 1: and rule. But as we have said, the spirit of
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Speaker 1: the idea was frequently lost in the passage of the years,
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Speaker 1: and only the ugly, lifeless outer shell remained. Modern science
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Speaker 1: has now discovered certain remarkable facts in the realm of
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Speaker 1: physiology which tend to prove the correctness of the old
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Speaker 1: doctrine of transmutation of sexual energy or regeneration. More than this,
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Speaker 1: actual surgical experiments have demonstrated that the theory can be
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Speaker 1: made to work out in practice in the case of
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Speaker 1: animals and of human beings as well. Of course, new
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Speaker 1: theories are being advanced to explain these phenomena, and new
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Speaker 1: names are being coined to apply to them. But the
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Speaker 1: old principle and essential facts remain the same as true
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Speaker 1: now under the new theories and new names, as they
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Speaker 1: were under the old theories and ancient terminology. In our
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Speaker 1: present consideration of this interesting and important subject, we shall
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Speaker 1: take the best to be found in either and both
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Speaker 1: the ancient and the modern teachings and knowledge concerning the
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Speaker 1: facts and the principles involved therein, there is an essential
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Speaker 1: and fundamental agreement between them, underlying the differences of theory
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Speaker 1: and interpretation, and despite the character of the different terms
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Speaker 1: employed to indicate the phenomena and the principle of which
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Speaker 1: they are manifestations Regenerative power vital rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson,
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. The power of sex. The term sex
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Speaker 1: in its original and general meaning is defined as the
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Speaker 1: distinguishing peculiarity of male and female, or the distinction of
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Speaker 1: the offices and functions of the male and female living individuals.
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Speaker 1: In its later and more special meaning, however, the term
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Speaker 1: is employed in the sense of the functions and offices
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Speaker 1: of the male and female living individuals which are concerned
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Speaker 1: with the primary and secondary manifestations of the sexual or
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Speaker 1: reproductive powers and activities. Sex is an evolutionary manifestation of nature.
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Speaker 1: It has as its evident primary purpose and intent the
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Speaker 1: furthering of the work of reproduction of the living forms
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Speaker 1: which have been produced by Nature or by those of
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Speaker 1: her processes, which are known as the life forces or
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Speaker 1: the vital energies, and which are concerned with the maintenance, preservation,
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Speaker 1: and continuance of life in the forms which have been
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Speaker 1: evolved as the vehicles or mechanism of the manifestation of life.
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Speaker 1: Nature in those phases or forms of her manifestations which
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Speaker 1: are concerned with life, evidently has as her primary purpose
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Speaker 1: the production and maintenance of the life forms. To these ends,
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Speaker 1: she devotes an enormous amount and a high degree of energy, force,
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Speaker 1: and power, and manifests an almost incredible degree of activity.
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Speaker 1: Whatever nature is held to be at the last, and
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Speaker 1: whatever else may be conceived to be a part of
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Speaker 1: her purposes and designs, It cannot be denied that she
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Speaker 1: seems to be intensely concerned and indefatigably active in the
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Speaker 1: direction of creating, preserving, and continuing life in and through
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Speaker 1: the life forms which she has produced in the processes
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Speaker 1: of evolution. To this end, she has evolved and perfected
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Speaker 1: the wondrous physical mechanism by means of which the physical
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Speaker 1: processes are carried on. To this end, she has developed
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Speaker 1: the recuperative and reparative agencies in the organism of the
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Speaker 1: living creature by means of which are overcome the harmful
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Speaker 1: effects of injuries and disease. To this end, she has
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Speaker 1: quickened the senses, instinct, and reasoning powers of the living creature,
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Speaker 1: that these may be employed for the preservation of the
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Speaker 1: physical organism through which life manifests itself. Finally, to this end,
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Speaker 1: she has evolved the marvelous mechanism of the reproductive organism,
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Speaker 1: by means of which the living creature is enabled to perpetuate, reproduce,
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Speaker 1: and generate its kind, this being accompanied by the marvelous physical, mental,
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Speaker 1: and emotional character mystics which have been evolved in order
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Speaker 1: to serve this purpose and to promote its ends. The
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Speaker 1: ancient Buddhists recognize this tendency in nature which acts in
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Speaker 1: the direction of promoting life and living. In their teaching
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Speaker 1: concerning the will to live, they claim that all creation
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Speaker 1: proceeds from and by means of this primal desire and impulse.
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Speaker 1: Schopenhauer taught a similar doctrine in his philosophy. The kernel
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Speaker 1: of things is this urge, striving seeking desire, or will
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Speaker 1: to live. Both the Buddhists and Schopenhauer also held that
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Speaker 1: this will to live has its most active form in
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Speaker 1: the sex, instinct or reproductive urge Bergsen, in his modern philosophy,
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Speaker 1: holds that the vital impulse is the essential and fundamental energy,
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Speaker 1: power or force manifested in the universal activities. Nature, however,
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Speaker 1: seems to have changed her mind or else to have
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Speaker 1: improved upon her original plans in this matter of the
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Speaker 1: continuance of life in her living forms. It would seem
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Speaker 1: that from the very first, however, she found herself under
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Speaker 1: the law of change, and that by reason of this
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Speaker 1: she was either unable or else not desirous of continuing
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Speaker 1: the existence of the living creature permanently in its original form.
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Speaker 1: At any rate, there seems to have been an inherent
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Speaker 1: desire and tendency toward change and variation in the life forms.
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Speaker 1: The processes of evolution seemed to establish this fact, Whatever
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Speaker 1: may be its real reason or cause, it was apparently
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Speaker 1: in the manifestation of this evident intent, purpose, tendency, or necessity,
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Speaker 1: that Nature evolved sex in living forms. Those who have
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Speaker 1: not studied the subject are generally of the belief that
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Speaker 1: the distinction of sex is manifest in all the living forms,
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Speaker 1: even among the lowest and most elemental forms. But this
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Speaker 1: is not correct. The distinction of sex was absent in
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Speaker 1: the first manifestations of life, and was not evolved until
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Speaker 1: the processes of creative evolution had proceeded comparatively far in
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Speaker 1: the scale of life. The lowest and most elemental life forms,
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Speaker 1: of course, were possessed of the power of reproduction or generation. This, indeed,
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Speaker 1: is one of the most essential of the characteristics of
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Speaker 1: plant life and animal life. But the distinctions of sex
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Speaker 1: were not present in the elementary life forms of the past,
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Speaker 1: nor in the existing primitive life forms. Nature managed to
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Speaker 1: proceed without the distinction of male and female for a
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Speaker 1: considerable time, though it may be asserted that if sex
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Speaker 1: and reproductive power are identical, then sex was present from
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Speaker 1: the first, though without the differentiation of male and female qualities.
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Speaker 1: The simplest and most elementary life forms are those of
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Speaker 1: the single cell creatures which are found in the slime
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Speaker 1: of the ocean beds. These forms are very minute and
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Speaker 1: are of such extreme simplicity of organization that they are
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Speaker 1: not strictly speaking organisms at all, for they are not
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Speaker 1: possessed of true organs. They resemble minute globules of gelatinous substance,
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Speaker 1: very much like glue. Yet they perform the processes of
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Speaker 1: assimilation and digestion of food and of its elimination, also
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Speaker 1: those of reproduction. These lowly life forms do not manifest
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Speaker 1: the differentiation of male and female sex characteristics. According to
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Speaker 1: which viewpoint we adopt, we may state that they are
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Speaker 1: either A without sex, or B are all female, or
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Speaker 1: c are bisexual i e. A combination of both sexes.
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Speaker 1: These elementary creatures reproduce their kind just as truly as
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Speaker 1: do the highest species of plant life or animal life,
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Speaker 1: but they reproduce themselves in a very primitive manner, namely
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Speaker 1: by division re separation. The elementary parent creature grows in
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Speaker 1: size and finally assumes the appearance of a miniature dumbbell
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Speaker 1: with two swollen ends connected by a tiny thin filament
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Speaker 1: or connecting rod. Finally, this filament or connecting rod breaks,
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Speaker 1: and there exist two living creatures, where before there was
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Speaker 1: but one. It has been said that if these creatures
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Speaker 1: were possessed of reason, each would be unable to decide
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Speaker 1: whether it was the mother or the daughter, the parent
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Speaker 1: or the offspring. So far as science has been able
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Speaker 1: to determine, there is present in this reproductive process, no
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Speaker 1: union of cell elements, no conjugation of reproductive factors. The
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Speaker 1: creature is but a single cell, and no differentiation of
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Speaker 1: sexual elements has been discovered to exist in it. A
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Speaker 1: little higher in the scale of elementary life forms, we
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Speaker 1: find that division of the animal kingdom called the protozoa.
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Speaker 1: These tiny creatures are also but single celled individuals, but
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Speaker 1: in many cases these unite into groups and form a
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Speaker 1: compound organism. These creatures also reproduce by subdivision or separation
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Speaker 1: similar to that above noted. But before this subdivision or
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Speaker 1: separation takes place, there occurs what is known as sexual conjugation,
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Speaker 1: in which two single celled creatures unite in coalesce, and
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Speaker 1: when the subdivision begins, their appear on the parent form
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Speaker 1: a number of tiny buds, the latter afterward dropping off
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Speaker 1: and thereafter existing as separate individuals. These uniting and coalescing
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Speaker 1: two cells, however, are not true male and female. Instead,
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Speaker 1: they are bisexual, and the male element of each fertilizes
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Speaker 1: the female element of the other, or, more technically stated,
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Speaker 1: the male elements of the two individuals are exchanged and
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Speaker 1: the new male nucleus fuses with the original female portion
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Speaker 1: of each. The two reorganized individual cells separate from each
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Speaker 1: other after the conjugation and reassume their original existence before
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Speaker 1: beginning again to divide in the usual manner. Here then
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Speaker 1: we see the differentiation of male and female, the evolution
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Speaker 1: of sex in the strict meaning of the latter term.
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Speaker 1: Why we may ask, does nature make this change? Why
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Speaker 1: did she not continue to reproduce by simple subdivision and
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Speaker 1: separation of the creature? Science answers the origin of sex
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Speaker 1: is an unsettled problem. We do not understand how or why.
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Speaker 1: From being at first hermaphroditic or asexual, as was probably
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Speaker 1: the case, the male and female characteristics became gradually established.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, science perceives that variation proceeds from
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Speaker 1: sex differentiation, and as variation seems to be the trend
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Speaker 1: of nature, this may be the reason for the evolution
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Speaker 1: of sex. The following quotation from an authoritative reference work
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Speaker 1: points to this conclusion. The male is the more active,
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Speaker 1: more variable, and specialized sex, while the female is passive, conservative,
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Speaker 1: and departs less from the normal standard. It would be
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Speaker 1: a natural result that the offspring would tend to vary.
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Speaker 1: Weismann goes so far as to claim that the intermingling
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Speaker 1: of the sexual elements in fertilization is the only cause
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Speaker 1: of variation. Before him, Trevorenus, Brooks and Galton claimed that
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Speaker 1: the sexual reproduction provokes variation in the evolution of the
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Speaker 1: differentiation of sex. The distinction between male and female creatures
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Speaker 1: cells or elements there was produced one the male creature
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Speaker 1: cell or element, distinguished by the presence of sperm in
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Speaker 1: the normal adult creature cell or element, and two the
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Speaker 1: female creature cell or element, distinguished by the presence of
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Speaker 1: ova or eggs in a normal adult creature cell or element.
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Speaker 1: An organism producing sperm is male, one producing OVA is
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Speaker 1: a female, and one producing both sperm and OVA is
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Speaker 1: a true hermaphrodite, while one producing neither sperm or OVA
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Speaker 1: is a neuter, though neuters are for the most part
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Speaker 1: incomplete females. But nature, even after evolving in producing the
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Speaker 1: differentiation of the male and female elements of reproduction, did
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Speaker 1: not at once begin to place these elements separated in
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Speaker 1: different individuals. It did not at once begin to manifest
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Speaker 1: male and female forms. Rather, it seemingly was at first
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Speaker 1: inclined to place both elements in one life form, thus
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Speaker 1: rendering each creature bisexual or hermaphroditic. Indeed, it extended this
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Speaker 1: plan in some cases quite high up in the scale
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Speaker 1: of the life forms. For instance, it is quite common
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Speaker 1: in plant life, and in animal life. It is found
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Speaker 1: in the oyster, in shell fish in general, in barnacles,
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Speaker 1: in the tapeworm, in the earthworm, and in the great
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Speaker 1: family of snails. Science entertains differing opinions concerning the procedure
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Speaker 1: of the evolution of sex and the place in time
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Speaker 1: and order in it occupied by the bisexual condition or hermaphroditism.
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Speaker 1: The following quotation from Getty's, an authority on the subject,
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Speaker 1: will show these divergent views in brief form. Geddy says,
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Speaker 1: one view of the matter is that hermaphroditism was the
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Speaker 1: primitive state among the multicellular animals, at least after the
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Speaker 1: differentiation of the sex elements had been accomplished. In alternating rhythms,
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Speaker 1: eggs and sperms were produced, the organism was alternately male
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Speaker 1: and female. On this primitive hermaphroditism, there may be more
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Speaker 1: or less of a recapitulation in the life history of
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Speaker 1: the organism. Gagenboor states the common opinion in the following
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Speaker 1: cautious and terse words, the hermaphrodite stage is the lower
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Speaker 1: and the condition of distinct sexes has been derived from it.
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Speaker 1: Unisexual differentiation by the reduction of one kind of sexual
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Speaker 1: apparatus takes place at very different stages in the development
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Speaker 1: of the organism, and often when the sexual organs have
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Speaker 1: attained a very high degree of differentiation. Quite different is
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Speaker 1: the view which regards hermaphroditism as a secondary condition derived
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Speaker 1: from a primitive unisexuality. Thus, Pelsoneer maintains that the study
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Speaker 1: of certain of the lower forms of life shows that
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Speaker 1: in these groups the separation of the sexes preceded hermaphroditism.
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Speaker 1: Various cases in other groups tending to show that this
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Speaker 1: is true universally, and the same conclusion appla to plants.
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Speaker 1: In certain groups. At least, hermaphroditism is grafted upon the
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Speaker 1: female sex dot Whatever may have been the precise order
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Speaker 1: of the conditions of unisexuality and bisexuality, respectively, All investigation
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Speaker 1: seems to show that in the beginning, the female distinctive
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Speaker 1: element was predominant and in a sense really the original element.
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Speaker 1: The male distinctive element seems to have been developed by
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Speaker 1: evolutionary differentiation, the female element is concerned primarily with the
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Speaker 1: actual reproductive process, the male element serving rather to energize
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Speaker 1: by fertilization the female element, and thus affording a greater
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Speaker 1: possibility or probability of variation, even in the hermaphroditic forms. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: the fertilization is affected by the conjugation of the two
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Speaker 1: elements of different creatures, instances of self fertilization being rare
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Speaker 1: and always more or less abnormal. In the conjugation of
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Speaker 1: the hermaphroditic creatures, the male element of each fertilizes the
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Speaker 1: fe female element of the other, the dual fertilization being
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Speaker 1: simultaneous in most cases. As the scale of life is ascended,
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Speaker 1: the male element becomes more active and more highly developed
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Speaker 1: and more important. Placed in separated individuals, the male element
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Speaker 1: becomes better adapted for fertilization of the female element in
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Speaker 1: the female creatures far removed in space from the females
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Speaker 1: of the immediate family group to which the male belongs,
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Speaker 1: and thus still greater variety becomes possible. The male element,
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Speaker 1: high or low in form, however, is always the subordinate
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Speaker 1: reproductive element. The female element or mother element, being the
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Speaker 1: original and the always predominant factor in the reproductive process.
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Speaker 1: In short, the female element is the factor essentially necessary
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Speaker 1: for reproduction in any form of life, while the male
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Speaker 1: element is the factor evolved for convenience. In the reproductive processes,
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Speaker 1: the female element brings into being the form of the offspring,
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Speaker 1: the male element being at the best and accessory. Nature
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Speaker 1: has devised and perfected many very ingenious methods by means
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Speaker 1: of which the male or fertilizing element of sex is
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Speaker 1: conveyed to its female or generative element. In both plant
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Speaker 1: life and animal life, the most intricate and delicate mechanism
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Speaker 1: for this purpose has been produced by nature. In fact,
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Speaker 1: nature seems to have devoted a very large portion of
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Speaker 1: her time and work for this particular purpose, thus showing
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Speaker 1: the importance of the reproductive processes in her general economy.
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Speaker 1: In many cases, indeed, particularly in the lower forms of life,
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Speaker 1: it would almost seem that the office of living is
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Speaker 1: actually subordinated to that of reproducing life, that the living
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Speaker 1: thing exists not so much for the purpose of its
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Speaker 1: own livingness, but rather for the purpose of transmitting the
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Speaker 1: life impulses and the vital processes to future individuals of
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Speaker 1: its species and class. The individual good is seemingly secondary
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Speaker 1: to the good of the species, class, general group, and
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Speaker 1: above all to that of life itself. In plant life,
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Speaker 1: the male element, the fertilizing factor, is called the pollen,
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Speaker 1: a fine microscopic dust or powder. The female element, or
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Speaker 1: generative factor, is called the bovule, a tiny egg cel.
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Speaker 1: The fertilization of the female element or ovule is effected
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Speaker 1: by placing upon it the male element or pollen. This
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Speaker 1: placing is effected in many different ways. In many cases,
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Speaker 1: the pollen is carried to the flower by the passing winds,
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Speaker 1: again sometimes by the flowing stream. In most cases, however,
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Speaker 1: the pollen is carried by small insects. Small birds, and
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Speaker 1: even by small animals like the snail. Bees are active
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Speaker 1: factors in the fertilization of plants, and many plants depend
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Speaker 1: upon them exclusively for this service. Other plants depend upon
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Speaker 1: particular insects. It being held that each and every plant
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Speaker 1: has its own favorite and most appropriate species of insect
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Speaker 1: for such purposes. The shape of the sexual channels of
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Speaker 1: each flower is especially formed so as to fit properly
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Speaker 1: around the body of the fertilizing insect, so that the
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Speaker 1: pollen is easily attached to the latter and is easily
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Speaker 1: brushed off so that it may reach the ovules of
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Speaker 1: other flowers. The plants attract these insects by means of
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Speaker 1: sweet honeylike fluids and by bright colors and fragrant odors.
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Speaker 1: The flower of the plant is its sexual organism. The
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Speaker 1: calyx or cup of the flower, covering its lower parts
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Speaker 1: and usually green in color, and the corolla or crown
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Speaker 1: of the flower, composed of petals, which are usually colored beautifully,
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Speaker 1: are the outer sexual organism of the plant. In them
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Speaker 1: are contained the stamen or male appendage containing the pollen,
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Speaker 1: and also the pistol or female appendage containing the ovules.
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Speaker 1: These details of the sexual organism of the plants have
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Speaker 1: a direct correspondence to the similar organism of animal life.
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Speaker 1: The same principle is operative in both plant life and
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Speaker 1: animal life, and the same general mechanism is provided for
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Speaker 1: its processes. The following quotation from Kellogg illustrates the wonderful
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Speaker 1: instinctive action of the plants manifested in the processes of fertilization.
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Speaker 1: In many instances, the action of plants seems almost to
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Speaker 1: be prompted by intelligence. At the proper moment, the corolla
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Speaker 1: contracts in such a way as to bring the stamen
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Speaker 1: nearer to the stigma, the crown of the pistol or
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Speaker 1: in contact with it, so as to procure fecondation. In
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Speaker 1: some aquatic plants, the flowers elevate themselves above the surface
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Speaker 1: of the water while the process of fecondation is effected,
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Speaker 1: submerging themselves immediately afterward. Other very curious changes occur in
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Speaker 1: flowers of different species. During the reproductive act. The stigma
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Speaker 1: is observed to become moistened and even to become slightly odorous.
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Speaker 1: Often too, it becomes congested with the juices of the plant,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes even acquires an uncommon and most remarkable degris
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Speaker 1: of contractability. This is the case with the stigma of
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Speaker 1: the tulip and of one variety of the sensitive plant.
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Speaker 1: In these plants, it is observed to occur not only
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Speaker 1: after the application of the pollen to the stigma, but
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Speaker 1: also when excited by any other means of stimulation. The
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Speaker 1: flowers of some plants during and after fecondation also show
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Speaker 1: an increase of heat, in some cases so marked as
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Speaker 1: to be readily detected with the thermometer. This is said
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Speaker 1: to be especially the case with the arim of italy.
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Speaker 1: In some plants in which the pistol is longer than
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Speaker 1: the stamens, thus elevating the stigma above the anthers, the
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Speaker 1: female appendage of the plant is often observed to bend
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Speaker 1: over and depress itself so as to come within reach
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Speaker 1: of the anthers the pollen sac of the stamen. In
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Speaker 1: animal life, Nature has been even still more ingenious and
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Speaker 1: painstaking in her provision for the ready fertilization of the
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Speaker 1: female element of the creature. Fertilization in animal life is
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Speaker 1: summed up by Gettys in the following stated three stages viz. One,
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Speaker 1: the process whereby the spermatozoa are brought into general proximity
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Speaker 1: to the ova. Two, the approach of the spermatozoon to
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Speaker 1: the ovum. Three the fertilization in the strict sense, the
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Speaker 1: orderly union of the two sex nuclei. The spermatozoa singular
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Speaker 1: spermatozoon are microscopic living cells which exist in great numbers
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Speaker 1: in the sperm or male element of reproduction. Only one spermatozoon, however,
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Speaker 1: succeeds in penetrating the ovum or female element of reproduction,
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Speaker 1: the others perish. Nature provides this great number of competing spermatozoa,
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Speaker 1: thereby rendering almost certain the success of one of their number. Geddis,
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Speaker 1: the leading authority on the subject, says, the adaptations which
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Speaker 1: secure that the sperms shall reach the ova are very varied.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it seems almost a matter of chance for the
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Speaker 1: sperms from adjacent males to be washed into the female,
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Speaker 1: as in sponges and bivalves with the nutritive water currents.
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Speaker 1: In other cases, especially well seen in most fishes, the
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Speaker 1: female deposits are unfertilized OVA in the water. The male
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Speaker 1: follows and covers them with spermatozoa. Many may have watched
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Speaker 1: from a bridge the female salmon plowing along the gravelly
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Speaker 1: river bed, depositing her OVA, careful to secure a suitable ground,
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Speaker 1: yet not disturbing the already laid eggs of her neighbors. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: she is attended by her frequently much smaller mate, who
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Speaker 1: deposits milt upon the ova in the frog. Again, the
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Speaker 1: eggs are fertilized by the male just as they leave
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Speaker 1: the body of his embraced mate, or it may be
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Speaker 1: that the sperms are lodged in special packets which are
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Speaker 1: taken up by the female in most of the newts,
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Speaker 1: or which are surrounded by one of the male aims
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Speaker 1: in many cuttlefishes, or passed by one of the male
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Speaker 1: spider's palps i e. Feelers attached to the mouth of
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Speaker 1: certain insects and crustaceans, to the female receptacle. In the
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Speaker 1: majority of animals e g. Insects and the higher vertebrates, however,
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Speaker 1: the sperms pass direct from the male to the female.
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Speaker 1: Even here the history is very varied. They may pass
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Speaker 1: occasion demands, or in higher animals, they may, with persistent
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Speaker 1: motor energy, work their way up the female ducts. There
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Speaker 1: they may soon meet with and fertilize ova which have
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Speaker 1: a long period, as in the case of certain animals,
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Speaker 1: to be used thereafter, or they may eventually perish and
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Speaker 1: which seems so well to deserve Rolph's epithet of starved,
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Speaker 1: appear to be powerfully drawn to the well nourished ovum,
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Speaker 1: and the latter frequently rises to meet the sperm in
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Speaker 1: in the way of entrance, in the form of the
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Speaker 1: egg shell, which may be penetrable only at one spot,
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Speaker 1: well called the micropile. Derwitz has made the interesting observation
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Speaker 1: that round the egg shells of the cockroach OVA, the
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Speaker 1: points out that thus, sooner or late a sperm must
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Speaker 1: characteristic motion of these elements. On smooth spheres, for round
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Speaker 1: empty egg shells, or on similar vesicles, they moved in
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Speaker 1: the impregnation of the rotifer Hydatina senta. The spermatozoa of
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Speaker 1: the male, which are injected into the body cavity of
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Speaker 1: the female, reached the totally enclosed eggs by boring through
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Speaker 1: the thin membrane at a point where the mature sure
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Speaker 1: ova are situated, a process not known in any other animals.
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Speaker 1: The oval head of a spermatozoon was seen to attach
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Speaker 1: itself to the membrane of the ovary, the tail continuing
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Speaker 1: to make lashing movements. The head was gradually forced through
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Speaker 1: the membrane and the tail followed, the whole process taking
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Speaker 1: about ten minutes. Nature has been very careful to provide
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Speaker 1: for that attraction between the sexes in the animal kingdom
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Speaker 1: which will cause them to frequent the society of each other,
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Speaker 1: particularly during the mating season. Even among animals such as
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Speaker 1: the fishes and the frogs, where the male element is
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Speaker 1: deposited upon the eggs after they are laid by the female,
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Speaker 1: there is manifested a strong sex companionship between the two
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Speaker 1: sexes during this period. The ordinary association of the future
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Speaker 1: parents during the mating season among the mammals and birds
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Speaker 1: particularly is too well known to require comment. In the
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Speaker 1: case of a species of fluke known as diplozoon, the
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Speaker 1: two individuals male and female physically combined in an almost
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Speaker 1: lifetime union. Again, in the Bilharzia, a parasitic trementode, the
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Speaker 1: male carries the female about with him in a genicophoric
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Speaker 1: tube composed of folds of skin. Once more, in certain
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Speaker 1: species of barnacles, the female carries her mate around with her,
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Speaker 1: safely and securely secreted in a pocket like contrivance in
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Speaker 1: her body. This mate is much smaller than the female
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Speaker 1: and was formally mistaken for a parasite. Regenerative Power Vital
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Speaker 1: Rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Derivative sex attributes.
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Speaker 1: which you have considered in the preceding section of this book,
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Speaker 1: there are certain secondary or derivative sexual attributes or characteristics
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Speaker 1: which you are now asked to consider in the present section.
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Speaker 1: By derivative attributes are meant those characteristic qualities which are
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Speaker 1: obtained by derivation. In short, those characteristic qualities which flow
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Speaker 1: and proceed from the primary, original, and fundamental nature of
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Speaker 1: the thing under consideration, which thing in the present instance
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Speaker 1: attributes of sex is that known as sexual dimorphism, or
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Speaker 1: the distinction of form and physical appearance of the two
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Speaker 1: sexes of certain species. An authoritative reference work contains the
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Speaker 1: following reference to this subject. Sexual dimorphism is due to
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Speaker 1: the rise of secondary characters. Such features are the male lions,
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Speaker 1: main the horns of the buck, the gay plumage which
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Speaker 1: distinguishes the cock from the hen, and the plumes, colored
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Speaker 1: combs and wattles, top knots, brilliant conspicuous bands and spots, spurs,
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Speaker 1: and those markings or new plumage especially developed during the
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Speaker 1: breeding season. Males tend among vertebrates to be larger. They
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Speaker 1: lead the flock, guard the females in young. In character,
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Speaker 1: they are more jealous and pugnacious. This is the case
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Speaker 1: not only with mammals and birds, but with reptiles and frogs.
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Speaker 1: The vociferous cries in spring of frogs and toads are
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Speaker 1: mainly from male throats, the females being much less noisy.
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Speaker 1: Certain fishes, such as the salmon, during the breeding season
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Speaker 1: are distinguished by bright colors and ornamental appendages of the invertebrates.
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Speaker 1: Only insects, spiders and Crustacea afford examples. Among coleopter of
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Speaker 1: the stag beetles are remarkable for their size and the
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Speaker 1: two sets of males, those which, in lack of armature,
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Speaker 1: resemble the females and those which are much larger and
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Speaker 1: remarkably abbarent i e. Deviating from type. In certain spiders,
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Speaker 1: the males are gaily colored and their legs greatly modified
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Speaker 1: in shape. Darwin has explained sexual dimorphism by his theory
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Speaker 1: of sexual selection. Sexual dimorphism reaches its acmet in the
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Speaker 1: males of certain solitary barnacles. They are minute very much
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Speaker 1: reduced in structure, living inside the mantle cavity of the female,
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Speaker 1: where they are anchored by their antennae. The same authority
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Speaker 1: explains the above reference to sexual selection as follows. The
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Speaker 1: a struggle for existence, but on a struggle between the
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Speaker 1: males for possession of the females. The result is not
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Speaker 1: death to the unsuccessful competitor, but few or no offspring.
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Speaker 1: In many cases, however, victory depends not on general vigor,
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Speaker 1: but on the possession of special weapons confined to the
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Speaker 1: male sex, as the spurs of the cock or the
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Speaker 1: horns of the stag. The war is perhaps severest between
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Speaker 1: the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided
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Speaker 1: with special weapons of offense. Among birds, the contest is
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Speaker 1: often less gross and fierce, the males rivaling each other
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Speaker 1: in attracting the females by their powers of song or
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Speaker 1: display of plumage. Darwin concludes that when the males and
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Speaker 1: females of any animal have the same habits of life
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Speaker 1: but differ in structure, color, or ornament, such differences have
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Speaker 1: been mainly caused by sexual selection, i e. By individual
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Speaker 1: males having had, in successive generations some slight advantages over
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Speaker 1: other males in their weapons, means of defense, or charms,
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Speaker 1: and having transmitted these advantages to their male offspring. Although
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Speaker 1: Wallace does not accept the theory of sexual selection, claiming
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Speaker 1: that bright colors were originally normal in both sexes but
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Speaker 1: to substantiate the views of Darwin. As observed by Romaanes,
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Speaker 1: it is a theory wholly in completely distinct from natural
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Speaker 1: selection dot whatever may have been the predominant evolutionary cause
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Speaker 1: leading to this distinctive marking and equipment of the male animals.
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Speaker 1: The fact remains unquestioned that the female animals are attracted
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Speaker 1: by these special characteristics of the male and bestow their
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Speaker 1: favors upon the attractively marked individual males, the less fortunate
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Speaker 1: males being comparatively discarded. Nature has evolved this means of
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Speaker 1: attracting the sex element of the females by the special
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Speaker 1: physical appearance or weapons of the male. The manifestation of
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Speaker 1: such characteristics is unquestionably a derivative sex attribute. The attractive
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Speaker 1: male animal succeeds in propagating his kind, just as truly
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Speaker 1: as the attractive flower tends toward greater fertility by reason
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Speaker 1: of being favored by the visiting insects which serve the
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Speaker 1: purpose of fertilization. The primary characteristics or attributes of sex
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Speaker 1: are those immediately or very closely associated with the processes
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Speaker 1: of fertilization, namely, a the power of producing, respectively the
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Speaker 1: sperm and the ova and b the possession of the
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Speaker 1: organs necessary for conjugation, ovaposition, gestation, parturition, and nutrition of
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Speaker 1: the immature young in any stage. The secondary or derivative
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Speaker 1: characteristics of sex are those which are concerned and with
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Speaker 1: the differences between the sexes is size, shape, appearance, ornamentation, armament,
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Speaker 1: color and coloration, voice, and instincts and habits not directly
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Speaker 1: associated with the reproductive processes. The primary or original sexual
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Speaker 1: characteristics or attributes are those which are concerned directly with
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Speaker 1: the sexual act of fertilization. The secondary or derivative sexual
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Speaker 1: characteristics are those which are concerned with the attraction between
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Speaker 1: the individuals of the two sexes, whereby at least some
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Speaker 1: degree of sexual selection is performed in the love making
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Speaker 1: or falling in love of the animals and in the
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Speaker 1: simpler corresponding processes in plant life. Darwin devoted much attention
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Speaker 1: to these secondary or derivative sexual characteristics in animals, and
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Speaker 1: as before stated, explained the same by his theory of
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Speaker 1: sexual selection, i e. The hypothesis that as the females
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Speaker 1: almost invariably select as mates those individual males so attractively
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Speaker 1: marked these special characteristics, thereafter in time become fixed in
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Speaker 1: a male offspring, the unattractive males having fewer offspring, being
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Speaker 1: unable to exert a corresponding influence on them characteristics of
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Speaker 1: the species. These secondary or derivative sexual attributes or characteristics, however,
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Speaker 1: are not universally present in the animal world. On the contrary,
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Speaker 1: among many mammals and among many birds, there are no
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Speaker 1: distinguishing marks between the two sexes excepting those of the
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Speaker 1: primary sexual attributes or characteristics i e. The reproductive organism itself.
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Speaker 1: But almost invariably, when such secondary characteristics are found in
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Speaker 1: a species, they are found in the male animal rather
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Speaker 1: than in the female. In many cases, the male possesses
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Speaker 1: the attractive markings, et cetera only during the mating season,
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Speaker 1: thus showing clearly in unmistakably nature's purpose in manifesting the
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Speaker 1: distinction and in her use of it. Darwin's theory of
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Speaker 1: sexual selection is well illustrated by the following quotation from
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Speaker 1: one of his books. Courage, pugnacity, perseverance, strength and size
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Speaker 1: of body, Weapons of all kinds, musical organs, both vocal
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Speaker 1: and instrumental, bright colors, stripes and marks, and ornamental appendages
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Speaker 1: have all been indirectly gained by the one sex or
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Speaker 1: the other, through the influence of love or jealousy, through
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Speaker 1: the appreciation of the beautiful and sound color or form,
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Speaker 1: and through the exertion of a choice. And these powers
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Speaker 1: of the mind manifestly depend upon the development of the
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Speaker 1: cerebral system. Another authority adds the secondary characters to be
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Speaker 1: accounted for are confined to one sex and are in
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Speaker 1: close relation with the breeding season and the breeding habits.
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Speaker 1: In those cases where they differ from the females, the
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Speaker 1: males are the most active in courtship and the best armed,
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Speaker 1: and are rendered the most attractive in many ways. They
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Speaker 1: fight with their rivals for the possession of the female
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Speaker 1: or display their attractions before her, and either either by
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Speaker 1: conquest or being preferred, have an advantage of less favored males.
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Speaker 1: With this understanding of the nature, cause, and reason of
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Speaker 1: the many secondary characteristics appearing in the animal world, you
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Speaker 1: will read a new and strange meaning in your experience
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Speaker 1: of the world of living things. You will see the
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Speaker 1: presence of sex in the living world around you, and
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Speaker 1: will see the fine hand of nature manipulating the appearance
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Speaker 1: and actions of all living things in direct relation to
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Speaker 1: the power of sex. Were the activities of sex to
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Speaker 1: be brought to a sudden termination, not only would the
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Speaker 1: world of living things soon die out for want of
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Speaker 1: fresh material, but even while it survived with constantly decreasing
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Speaker 1: force and lessening numbers, it would be a far different
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Speaker 1: and a far less attractive and less beautiful world than
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Speaker 1: it now appears to be to our senses. The above
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Speaker 1: thought is brought out more clearly in the following quotation
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Speaker 1: from Grant Allen, the English naturalist, who says, everything high
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Speaker 1: and ennobling in our nature springs directly out of the
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Speaker 1: sexual instinct. It's a alliance is wholly with whatever is
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Speaker 1: purest and most beautiful within us. To it. We owe
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Speaker 1: our brightest colors, graceful forms, melodious sounds, and rhythmical motion.
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Speaker 1: To it. We owe the evolution of music, of poetry,
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Speaker 1: of romance, of Bell's letra, the evolution of sculpture, of
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Speaker 1: decorative art, of dramatic entertainment. To it, we owe the
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Speaker 1: entire existence of our esthetic sense, which is, in the
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Speaker 1: last resort, a secondary sexual attribute. From it springs the
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Speaker 1: love of beauty around it too, our group, the paternal
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Speaker 1: and marital relations, the love of little pattering feet and
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Speaker 1: baby laughter, the home with all the associations that cluster
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Speaker 1: around it, in one word, the heart and all that
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Speaker 1: is best in it. If we look around among the
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Speaker 1: inferior animals, we shall see that germs of everything which
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Speaker 1: is best in humanity took their rise with them in
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Speaker 1: a sexual instinct. The song of the nightingale, or of
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Speaker 1: Shelley's skylark, is a song that has been acquired by
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Speaker 1: the bird himself to charm the years of his attentive partner.
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Speaker 1: The chirp of the cricket, the cheerful note of the grasshopper,
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Speaker 1: the twittering of the sparrow, the pleasant car of the rookery.
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Speaker 1: All these, as Darwin showed, are direct products of sexual selection.
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Speaker 1: Every pleasant sound that greets our ears from the hedge
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Speaker 1: or copse in a summer walk has the self same origin.
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Speaker 1: If we were to take away from the country the
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Speaker 1: music conferred upon it by the sense of sex, we
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Speaker 1: should have taken away every vocal charm it possesses. Save
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Speaker 1: the murmuring of brooks and the whispering of breezes through
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Speaker 1: the leaves. No thrush, no blackbird, no linnet would be
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Speaker 1: left us, no rattle of the night jar over the
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Speaker 1: twilight fields. No chirp of insect, no chatter of tree frog,
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Speaker 1: no cry of cuckoo from the leafy covert, The whipperwill
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Speaker 1: and the bobblink would be as mute as the serpent.
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Speaker 1: Every beautiful voice in wild nature, from the mocking bird
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Speaker 1: to the cicada, is in essence a love call, And
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Speaker 1: without such love calls, the music of the fields would
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Speaker 1: be mute, the forests would be silent. Had Allan extended
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Speaker 1: his thought to the realm of the plants, he would
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Speaker 1: have been able to have emphasized quite as forcibly our
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Speaker 1: dependence upon the sexual energies and influence of the world
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Speaker 1: of plants, flowers and fruits. For without sex there would
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Speaker 1: be no beautiful buds and flowers upon which to feast
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Speaker 1: our eyes. The rose, the lily, the violet, and all
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Speaker 1: the great array of wild and cultivated flowers would be
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Speaker 1: absent from our sight, and their fragrance would no longer
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Speaker 1: delight our sense of smell. No longer would the wealth
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Speaker 1: of cherry blossoms charm us. No longer the perfume of
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Speaker 1: the honeysuckle or lilac, the heliotrope or the sweet pea
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Speaker 1: refresh us, for these flowers are not only the sexual
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Speaker 1: organism of the plant, but their beauty and fragrance arise
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Speaker 1: by reason of nature's clever plant to attract to them
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Speaker 1: the insects needed to fertilize them and thus to promote
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Speaker 1: the process of reproduction of their kind. Likewise, absent also
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Speaker 1: would be the delicious fruit and berries, those cleverly designed
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Speaker 1: carriers of the seed of the plants and trees. Gone
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Speaker 1: also would be the nuts great and small. Missing, likewise
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Speaker 1: would be the seeds of the wheat, rye, barley, and corn,
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Speaker 1: the grains which form such an important element of our food.
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Speaker 1: Were sex to cease its entire manifestation in plant life
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Speaker 1: for even a single season, all animal life would perish,
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Speaker 1: And before perishing, we would gaze sadly upon a world
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Speaker 1: robbed of a great portion of its beauty and of
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Speaker 1: its appeals to sight, taste, and smell. These things, so
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Speaker 1: true and important to us, are too close to us
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Speaker 1: to be appreciated. It is only when we consider the
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Speaker 1: effects of their possible absence that we begin to realize
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Speaker 1: the all important part played by sex in the world
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Speaker 1: in which we live and move and have our being,
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Speaker 1: even apart from the part it plays in our own
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Speaker 1: personal lives. No less wonderful, no less powerful, is the
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Speaker 1: effect produced by sex upon the emotional nature of living things,
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Speaker 1: upon the desires arising from them, and upon the actions
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Speaker 1: resulting from such desires. Such an important place in our
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Speaker 1: mental and emotional world, and in our world of will
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Speaker 1: does sex occupy that were she to withdraw or suspend
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Speaker 1: her activities and influence, there would be but comparatively little
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Speaker 1: left for living creatures to feel, to desire, to will,
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Speaker 1: to do, and to manifest in action, directly or indirectly.
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Speaker 1: Sex is involved in the greater portions of our feelings, desires,
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Speaker 1: and actions of will. Often hidden, sex usually will be
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Speaker 1: found to be present, exerting a potent, though silent, and
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Speaker 1: subtle influence upon feeling, thought, desire, will and acts. To
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Speaker 1: begin with the lower forms of life in the animal kingdom,
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Speaker 1: we find that even there is to be found the
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Speaker 1: ever present and ever active influence of sex in the feelings, desires,
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Speaker 1: and acts of the living creature. Not only is exhibited
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Speaker 1: there the primary urge of sex in the direction of
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Speaker 1: mayhood and the cooperation of the male and female in
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Speaker 1: the fundamental reproductive processes. But there also are found the
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Speaker 1: derivative manifestations of feeling, desire and action, which are concerned
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Speaker 1: with the protection of the female, the provision of shelter
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Speaker 1: for the mother and the young where this is necessary,
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Speaker 1: and the subsequent defense of the young, together with the
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Speaker 1: provision for their food and nourishment. Even the fishes, the insects,
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Speaker 1: and other lowly forms of life manifest the feeling desire
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Speaker 1: and will to protect their eggs and their young offspring.
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Speaker 1: Quite elaborate arrangements are made by these creatures for the
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Speaker 1: future welfare of their offspring, the eggs being placed in
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Speaker 1: close proximity to the food supply and where they may
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Speaker 1: not readily be destroyed by their natural enemies. Some of
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Speaker 1: the insects place their eggs either upon or in the
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Speaker 1: bodies of other living creatures, these bodies being the proper
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Speaker 1: food for the young insects when hatched from the egg.
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Speaker 1: One is amazed in reading scientific works upon insect life,
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Speaker 1: such as forbrays, for instance, to discover how complex and
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Speaker 1: ingenious are some of the devices of the parent insect
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Speaker 1: directed to this end. Of course, you may say this
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Speaker 1: is merely instinct, but instinct is but the more or
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Speaker 1: less unconscious habit which has arisen from previous deliberate and
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Speaker 1: conscious action. Moreover, even if it be but instinct, the
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Speaker 1: manifestation of that instinct is accompanied by feeling, desire and
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Speaker 1: will action on the part of the creature to the
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Speaker 1: insect as well as to the bird, and as well
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Speaker 1: as to the higher animal. The eggs or the young
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Speaker 1: are objects of intense solicitude and interest. Some insects will
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Speaker 1: die in defense of their eggs, and the fact that
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Speaker 1: birds will often sacrifice themselves in the protection of their
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Speaker 1: eggs or their young is too well known to require argument.
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Speaker 1: If you have ever tried to disturb a setting hen,
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Speaker 1: you will realize the depth and intensity of her affection
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Speaker 1: for her precious eggs, and her ardent desire to cover
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Speaker 1: them and to keep them warm, even though she be
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Speaker 1: unconscious of the ultimate object of her endeavors. In bird
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Speaker 1: life is to be seen the performance of arduous labors
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Speaker 1: in the building of the nest and in its subsequent
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Speaker 1: protection from natural enemies. The elemental selfishness of the adult
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Speaker 1: birds is overcome by their deep feeling and desire to
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Speaker 1: feed the young when hatched, or in some cases to
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Speaker 1: feed the brooding mother bird. In certain species, the male
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Speaker 1: bird alternates with the female in the setting process. Some
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Speaker 1: male fishes watch over and protect the egg nest or
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Speaker 1: place of deposit and shelter. All of these and similar
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Speaker 1: actions are performed simply because the creature wants to, because
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Speaker 1: its feelings and desires prompt such action. For the time being,
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Speaker 1: the instinct of self preservation is secondary to that of
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Speaker 1: the protection of the offspring. A clear manifestation of sex influence.
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Speaker 1: The mutual attraction, desire for companionship and love of living
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Speaker 1: creatures for their mates, Apart from the attraction of the
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Speaker 1: direct sexual act, undoubtedly arises from the deep rooted instinct
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Speaker 1: for desire for the protection of the young. This this
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Speaker 1: is evidenced by the fact that where the protection of
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Speaker 1: the father animal is not necessary, then there is no
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Speaker 1: sign of love between the parents, and that where such
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Speaker 1: need is the greatest, there is the love between the
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Speaker 1: parent's greatest in power and in length of duration. The
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Speaker 1: measure of the love of the mated animals and of
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Speaker 1: the duration thereof is directly proportioned to the need of
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Speaker 1: the protection of the young by the parents, particularly by
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Speaker 1: the male parent. The eggs of the spider require no
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Speaker 1: parental care. Hence the male and female spiders love only
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Speaker 1: during the moment of actual intercourse. The female frequently devours
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Speaker 1: her mate immediately afterward. The eggs of the bee require
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Speaker 1: no parental care, the neuters attending to this. Hence the
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Speaker 1: male drones are put to death after their services have
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Speaker 1: been rendered, and the mother bee, the queen evinces no
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Speaker 1: interest whatever in her offspring or in her mates. After
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Speaker 1: the act of fertilization is performed. In the case of
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Speaker 1: certain insects, the living substance of the male parent is
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Speaker 1: act actually drawn from his body and into the body
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Speaker 1: of the female naught, but the dead shell of the
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Speaker 1: devoted male mate being left. The females of certain species
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Speaker 1: of spiders devour their mates after fertilization is effected. The
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Speaker 1: food thus obtained by eating or absorption is employed for
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Speaker 1: the building of the egg substance in the body of
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Speaker 1: the female. Nature is very matter of fact in the
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Speaker 1: love making of these creatures. There is very little sentiment
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Speaker 1: wasted in the matter, and the flame of passion burns
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Speaker 1: but for a moment, then dies out forever. Snakes and
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Speaker 1: other reptiles which deposit their eggs in a safe place
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Speaker 1: and then leave them, or which bring forth their young
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Speaker 1: fully equipped for life work, usually manifest no affection between
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Speaker 1: the mates following the sexual act, and such creatures seem
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Speaker 1: devoid of paternal affection. Nature evidently does not provide such
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Speaker 1: emotions where they serve no good purpose or need in
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Speaker 1: the reproductive offices and a subsequent protection of the offspring.
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Speaker 1: Most birds, while ardent lovers and devoted mates during the
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Speaker 1: mating and brooding season, and while usually willing to sacrifice
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Speaker 1: themselves for the mate or for their young during that period,
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Speaker 1: lose the mutual affection after the need of that period
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Speaker 1: is passed, though in a few exceptional cases the affection
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Speaker 1: continues over longer periods, sometimes even for life. It is claimed.
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Speaker 1: The cuckoos and similar birds which deposit their eggs in
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Speaker 1: the nests of other birds they are to be hatched
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Speaker 1: along with the legitimate brood of the foster parents, are
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Speaker 1: inveterate polygamists and polyandrists, cohabiting indiscriminately in showing not the
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Speaker 1: slightest signs of permanent or continued affection for their whylam mates.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, those birds and other animals whose
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Speaker 1: young require careful and continued attention always are found to
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Speaker 1: manifest a strong mate love during the period of that need.
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Speaker 1: Nature has evidently established this rule for the protection of
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Speaker 1: the young and the continuance of the species. Darwin explains
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Speaker 1: this upon the theory that the ancestral creatures who manifested
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Speaker 1: the necessary mate love transmitted it to their numerous, well
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Speaker 1: protected office, while those not manifesting it had but comparatively
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Speaker 1: few offspring to inherit their unfavorable tendencies. Consequently, the habit
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Speaker 1: and custom soon became set and fixed in a species.
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Speaker 1: Other thinkers, however, while admitting that the rule would work
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Speaker 1: out as Darwin indicated, nevertheless believed that the original impulse
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Speaker 1: was there in the beginning, and that in addition to
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Speaker 1: the survival value of such habits, there is also to
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Speaker 1: be taken into consideration an unconscious intuition which manifests in
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Speaker 1: action through instinct, and which gradually becomes set and fixed
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Speaker 1: as habit. In the higher animals, or of such species
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Speaker 1: of them in which the young creatures require the protection
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Speaker 1: and food supplying offices of the male parent, there is
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Speaker 1: often seen a marked and often long continued attachment between
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Speaker 1: the parent animals and a comparatively permanent companionship even after
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Speaker 1: the mating and breeding season. Among the higher wild animals,
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Speaker 1: mating is often comparatively permanent, sometimes enduring for the life
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Speaker 1: of the two mates. And here, as might be expected,
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Speaker 1: there is to be found a need for such association,
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Speaker 1: for by the time one brood is ready to be
1:09:06
Speaker 1: cast off to pursue life on their own account, Nature
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Speaker 1: has begun preparations for the following brood. This rule is
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Speaker 1: true among the lower races of man as well, and
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Speaker 1: in about the same degree. The human infant is probably
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Speaker 1: the most helpless thing in the world. It can do
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Speaker 1: nothing for itself except to nurse its mother's breast, and
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Speaker 1: it must even be held up during that performance. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: its period of dependence continues for a long time, so long,
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Speaker 1: in fact, that its younger brother or sister is held
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Speaker 1: in nature's vision before the first child is ready to
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Speaker 1: do anything much for itself. As might be expected, here
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Speaker 1: we find a comparatively strong and long continued attachment between
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Speaker 1: the parents, even in primitive human society. Here, again, according
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Speaker 1: to Darwin, that a survival value of such a custom
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Speaker 1: is great, and soon becomes set and fixed as a
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Speaker 1: habit of the race. As mankind advances in culture, knowledge,
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Speaker 1: and experience, there occurs the grafting of many new and
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Speaker 1: strange mental and emotional growths upon the parent stock of
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Speaker 1: human love for the mate. The original purpose, neat and instinct,
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Speaker 1: is always there. Nature attends carefully to this, but there exists,
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Speaker 1: in addition, many new requirements of the emotional nature, which
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Speaker 1: often cause the original and elemental urge to be overlooked,
1:10:24
Speaker 1: at least for a time. As Carpenter says, Nature personifying
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Speaker 1: under this term, the more unconscious, even though human instincts
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Speaker 1: and forces, takes pretty good care in her own way
1:10:35
Speaker 1: that sex shall not be neglected. She has her own
1:10:39
Speaker 1: purposes to work out, which in a sense have nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with the individual her racial purposes. But she
1:10:46
Speaker 1: acts in the rough with tremendous sweep and power, and
1:10:49
Speaker 1: with little adjustment to our consideration. For the later developed
1:10:52
Speaker 1: and more conscious and intelligent ideals of humanity, Nordau says,
1:10:57
Speaker 1: the more highly cultivated, the more original, the more differentiated
1:11:01
Speaker 1: an individual, the more complex the qualities which he attributes
1:11:05
Speaker 1: to the longed for an expected individual of the opposite sex.
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Speaker 1: The lower and simpler the ideal, the easier it is
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Speaker 1: for the individual to find the realization of it in
1:11:15
Speaker 1: corporate form. Hence, common and simple natures fall in love
1:11:19
Speaker 1: very easily and find no difficulty in replacing the object
1:11:23
Speaker 1: of their love by another, while delicate and complex natures
1:11:26
Speaker 1: find it a long and tedious task to discover their
1:11:29
Speaker 1: ideal or anything approximating it in real life and in
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Speaker 1: giving it a successor if it happens to lose it.
1:11:36
Speaker 1: Human love between the sexes may be of high or
1:11:39
Speaker 1: of low degree, of extreme elemental simplicity of character, or
1:11:43
Speaker 1: of extreme complexity of nature. It may manifest itself in
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Speaker 1: many ways, sometimes the physical manifestation being almost lost sight
1:11:51
Speaker 1: of for the time being owing to the power and
1:11:53
Speaker 1: force of the other elements and factors involved. But high
1:11:57
Speaker 1: or low, simple or complex, even in the form of
1:12:00
Speaker 1: the most ideal platonic friendship, the element of sex is
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Speaker 1: always there, and sometimes that element manifests its force with
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Speaker 1: a terrifying sudden directness and intensity when and were the
1:12:11
Speaker 1: least expected. In the unconscious of each individual, sex abides
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Speaker 1: in all its power, awaiting its time and opportunity to
1:12:18
Speaker 1: manifest itself. Those who are wise never lose sight of
1:12:22
Speaker 1: this fact. The unwise ignore or deny it, and this
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Speaker 1: folly in many cases, results in their undoing. Were nature
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Speaker 1: in her phase and form of sex, to cease her
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Speaker 1: activities and to withdraw her influence over the feelings, desires,
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Speaker 1: will in actions of mankind, than all of man's feelings, desires, will,
1:12:41
Speaker 1: in actions which result directly or indirectly from sex attraction
1:12:45
Speaker 1: would cease. Such a change, occurring overnight, would cause an
1:12:49
Speaker 1: entirely different world to present itself in experience with the
1:12:52
Speaker 1: dawn of the new day. Seventy five percent or more
1:12:56
Speaker 1: of human action than would have ceased to manifest itself.
1:13:00
Speaker 1: All the consciousness of differentiation between the sexes than having ceased,
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Speaker 1: all the attractions between the sexes, would have come to
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Speaker 1: an end, and all sexual feelings, desires, and tendencies toward action,
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Speaker 1: all will, and all voluntary action resulting from such feelings
1:13:15
Speaker 1: and desires would cease to be experienced or manifested by
1:13:19
Speaker 1: men and women. All would then be practically of one sex,
1:13:23
Speaker 1: or rather sexless in feeling, emotion, will, habits, and actions. This, indeed,
1:13:30
Speaker 1: would be a new world, a world almost inconceivable to
1:13:33
Speaker 1: our imagination. In such a world, everything which now causes
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Speaker 1: a man's feelings concerning a woman to be different from
1:13:40
Speaker 1: his feelings concerning a man, or vice versa. Everything which
1:13:44
Speaker 1: now causes a man to act differently toward a woman
1:13:47
Speaker 1: than toward a man, and vice versa. All these things
1:13:50
Speaker 1: would have vanished and would be remembered, but as a dream.
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Speaker 1: A moment's consideration will cause you to realize what tremendous
1:13:57
Speaker 1: changes this would cause in our world of experience, everything
1:14:01
Speaker 1: would be topsy turvy inside out at sixes and sevens.
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Speaker 1: Add to this the loss of the element of love
1:14:08
Speaker 1: of offspring, the desire to protect offspring, all family life
1:14:12
Speaker 1: and action, and you would of chaos. Social life, business life,
1:14:17
Speaker 1: industrial life, art, music, and all else would be changed
1:14:21
Speaker 1: beyond recognition, if not indeed be entirely destroyed. Combine into
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Speaker 1: a single compositive imaginative picture the idea of the withdrawal
1:14:30
Speaker 1: of sex from the world of plant life, the world
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Speaker 1: of animal life, and the world of human life, and
1:14:36
Speaker 1: you will begin to realize, at least faintly, the all
1:14:38
Speaker 1: important part played by sex in the processes of nature,
1:14:41
Speaker 1: and the tremendous force and power exerted therein by sex,
1:14:45
Speaker 1: as well as the almost infinite extension of the influence
1:14:48
Speaker 1: of sex throughout all nature and her manifestations. Sex symbolized
1:14:53
Speaker 1: as love not only brings the world of living things
1:14:56
Speaker 1: into being, but it also keeps that world alive and inaction.
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Speaker 1: Well did the old song inform us that it's love
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Speaker 1: that makes the world go round? Regenerative Power, Vital Rejuvenation
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Speaker 1: by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Transmutation of sex Energy.
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Speaker 1: In the preceding section of this book, we have considered
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Speaker 1: the more commonly and better known secondary or derivative attributes
1:15:22
Speaker 1: and characteristics of sex. Therein, you have perceived that sex
1:15:27
Speaker 1: energy is directed by nature, not alone along the channels
1:15:30
Speaker 1: of the primary activities of sex, concerned directly with the
1:15:34
Speaker 1: performance of the sexual functions and with the processes of
1:15:37
Speaker 1: the physical generation and development of the offspring, but also
1:15:40
Speaker 1: along certain special channels which are concerned with the evolution
1:15:44
Speaker 1: and maintenance of certain special physical, mental, and emotional characteristics
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Speaker 1: of the living forms, Which special characteristics would not have
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Speaker 1: been developed and would not be maintained with the sex
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Speaker 1: energy inoperative. In the present section, you are asked to
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Speaker 1: consider an additional and very important derivative manifestation of sex energy,
1:16:05
Speaker 1: one in which the general physical, mental, and emotional nature
1:16:08
Speaker 1: of the individual, apart from its employment in purely sexual activities,
1:16:13
Speaker 1: is strengthened, invigorated, and given power by the indirect activities
1:16:17
Speaker 1: of sex energy. In short, you will be shown that
1:16:20
Speaker 1: sex energy may be, and indeed is employed by nature
1:16:24
Speaker 1: in the processes of regeneration of the individual as well
1:16:27
Speaker 1: as in those of generation or reproduction. This phase of
1:16:31
Speaker 1: the operation of sex energy is not so well known
1:16:34
Speaker 1: as are its other phases, and indeed, for a long
1:16:37
Speaker 1: time science was disposed to ignore or to deny the
1:16:40
Speaker 1: existence of such phase, leaving the knowledge of it and
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Speaker 1: the discussion concerning it to the non scientific layman. But
1:16:48
Speaker 1: certain recent discoveries of science have awakened new interest in
1:16:51
Speaker 1: the subject on the part of scientific observers. Science, now
1:16:55
Speaker 1: having been supplied with a valid physiological basis for thought
1:16:59
Speaker 1: along these lines, it is extremely probable that the next
1:17:02
Speaker 1: twenty years will bring important scientific investigations and discoveries concerning
1:17:06
Speaker 1: the operation and the application of the natural laws involved
1:17:09
Speaker 1: in this particular subject. As we have previously informed you,
1:17:14
Speaker 1: the esoteric philosophers and arcane schools of the ancient world
1:17:18
Speaker 1: recognized the presence and the operation of these natural laws
1:17:21
Speaker 1: of regeneration, and made the study of them an important
1:17:24
Speaker 1: branch of their work and teaching. But here, as in
1:17:27
Speaker 1: other branches of knowledge, these ancient thinkers did not direct
1:17:31
Speaker 1: their thought along what are now known as scientific lines. Instead,
1:17:36
Speaker 1: they were in the habit of explaining all known facts
1:17:38
Speaker 1: by reference to occult causes, often supernatural causes. They were
1:17:43
Speaker 1: right concerning their facts, but their inductive reasoning was weakened
1:17:47
Speaker 1: by their habit of taking it for granted that causes
1:17:49
Speaker 1: were to be found only in the realms of the supernatural,
1:17:52
Speaker 1: and not in nature herself. The modern scientific mind, on
1:17:56
Speaker 1: the contrary, seeks, ever to find a natural cause or
1:18:00
Speaker 1: all effects and activities perceived to exist in the natural world. Accordingly,
1:18:05
Speaker 1: these ancient thinkers usually attributed both generation and regeneration to
1:18:10
Speaker 1: occult forces or supernatural powers. They regarded sex energy as
1:18:15
Speaker 1: a divine principle in many cases, or else as a
1:18:18
Speaker 1: reflection of the secret creative energy which they held to
1:18:21
Speaker 1: exist apart from the world, though acting upon it. Modern science,
1:18:25
Speaker 1: on the contrary, regards the sex energy merely as a
1:18:28
Speaker 1: phase of the manifestation of that infinite and eternal energy
1:18:32
Speaker 1: from which all things proceed and which is found present
1:18:35
Speaker 1: and operative in all natural processes. Modern science finds in
1:18:40
Speaker 1: nature all that the ancients were accustomed to regard as supernatural,
1:18:43
Speaker 1: ie over and above nature. It holds that whatever is
1:18:49
Speaker 1: is natural, that whatever is possible of human knowledge or
1:18:52
Speaker 1: in human experience is natural, and that even where causes
1:18:56
Speaker 1: are as yet unknown, they must be assumed to be
1:18:58
Speaker 1: in nature and not outside. The ancients knew little or
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Speaker 1: nothing about the actual physiological processes of generation as these
1:19:06
Speaker 1: are known to modern science. They regarded generation and reproduction
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Speaker 1: as caused by the union and mingling of two occult
1:19:13
Speaker 1: forces which abode in the beings of male and female creatures.
1:19:18
Speaker 1: Modern science, in its branch known as physiology, on the contrary,
1:19:23
Speaker 1: knows that generation or reproduction is caused by the union
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Speaker 1: of the reproductive cells of the parent creatures, the sperm
1:19:29
Speaker 1: cells and the cells of the bova or egg. The
1:19:33
Speaker 1: microscope has revealed the character and the appearance of the
1:19:36
Speaker 1: spermatozoa and the ova, and the physical and physiological processes
1:19:40
Speaker 1: of reproduction and generation are definitely known and taught life itself,
1:19:45
Speaker 1: it is true, lies beyond the microscope or the dissecting knife.
1:19:49
Speaker 1: But science at least is able to tell just how
1:19:52
Speaker 1: life works in these processes, in the same way the
1:19:56
Speaker 1: ancients believe that regeneration or the transmutation of sex energy
1:20:00
Speaker 1: was caused by a direction of the occult forces of
1:20:03
Speaker 1: generation along new channels. Modern science, however, whenever it has
1:20:08
Speaker 1: investigated the subject at all, has held that this regeneration
1:20:12
Speaker 1: or transmutation of sex energy proceeds along the strict lines
1:20:15
Speaker 1: of physiological process. It holds that the sex glands of
1:20:19
Speaker 1: the male and female secrete certain elements which make for
1:20:22
Speaker 1: the invigoration of the mental and physical nature of the
1:20:25
Speaker 1: man or woman, just as do certain other glands of
1:20:28
Speaker 1: the body secrete certain elements which produce decided and marked
1:20:31
Speaker 1: effects upon the mind and body of the individual in
1:20:34
Speaker 1: whose body they exist and are active. Such special secretion
1:20:38
Speaker 1: of the sex glands being admitted or assumed as possible,
1:20:41
Speaker 1: science finds no difficulty whatsoever in explaining the effects of
1:20:45
Speaker 1: regeneration or transmutation of sex energy. Even before the recent
1:20:50
Speaker 1: scientific discoveries of the effects resulting from the transplantation of
1:20:54
Speaker 1: the sex glands into the bodies of the lower animals,
1:20:57
Speaker 1: and in a few instances, into the bodies of human beings.
1:21:00
Speaker 1: There have been modern thinkers and writers upon the subject
1:21:03
Speaker 1: who have held that the sex glands are capable of
1:21:05
Speaker 1: such secretion of a regenerative element, and that in every
1:21:08
Speaker 1: individual the processes of regeneration are operative to at least
1:21:12
Speaker 1: some extent, and that by the proper methods of application,
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Speaker 1: the secretion of these regenerative elements will be increased and
1:21:20
Speaker 1: may be deliberately directed to the mental and physical processes
1:21:23
Speaker 1: of the individual. Such a conception is usually found to
1:21:27
Speaker 1: lie at the base of the teaching of certain modern
1:21:29
Speaker 1: schools of thought, which advocate chastity, continence, and sexual temperance
1:21:33
Speaker 1: on the part of their followers. Thus, you see, these
1:21:37
Speaker 1: modern thinkers are really marching abreast with the ancient thinkers
1:21:41
Speaker 1: along the same lines so far as the facts of
1:21:44
Speaker 1: the case are concerned. Though the ancients explain these facts
1:21:48
Speaker 1: by the theory of occult forces or supernatural powers operative
1:21:52
Speaker 1: in the natural world, while the modern thinkers explain the
1:21:55
Speaker 1: same facts by the accepted laws of physiological process There
1:21:59
Speaker 1: is a common agree upon the facts of the case
1:22:01
Speaker 1: so far as the effects and phenomena are concerned. The
1:22:05
Speaker 1: effects are agreed upon as true, valid, and existing in
1:22:09
Speaker 1: both cases though the causes assumed to account for the
1:22:13
Speaker 1: effects are quite different, at least on the surface of thought.
1:22:17
Speaker 1: The following quotations from writers on this subject during the
1:22:20
Speaker 1: past twenty five years or thereabouts will serve to illustrate
1:22:24
Speaker 1: how the current of modern thought has been running in
1:22:26
Speaker 1: this direction, even before the recent discoveries concerning the internal
1:22:30
Speaker 1: secretions of the other glands of the body and of
1:22:32
Speaker 1: the transplantation of the sex glands, to both of which
1:22:35
Speaker 1: we have just referred. In each of the following quotations,
1:22:39
Speaker 1: the writer is either a recognized medical authority upon the subject,
1:22:43
Speaker 1: or else a layman who has given careful attention to,
1:22:46
Speaker 1: made careful observations, and conducted careful experiments along these lines.
1:22:52
Speaker 1: There are many others of equal authority who might have
1:22:54
Speaker 1: also been quoted in this connection. The following are merely
1:22:57
Speaker 1: a few selected from the great number of intelligence and
1:23:00
Speaker 1: competent authorities available. Doctor Kellogg, advocating the Continent Life, says
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Speaker 1: the sexual function is double in its purpose. First, the
1:23:10
Speaker 1: sexual organs are always active, even when not excited to
1:23:14
Speaker 1: such a degree as to obtrude their activity upon the consciousness,
1:23:17
Speaker 1: as they supply the body with a needed vital stimulus
1:23:20
Speaker 1: and regulator. Secondly, they furnish the only means by which
1:23:25
Speaker 1: the physical life of the individual and the perpetuation of
1:23:28
Speaker 1: the race may be accomplished. In neither of these important
1:23:32
Speaker 1: functions is the personal gratification of the individual the primary consideration.
1:23:37
Speaker 1: The exercise of the sexual function with a purely selfish
1:23:40
Speaker 1: purpose would seem to be a debasement of the sacred
1:23:43
Speaker 1: function in which man approaches most nearly to the creative
1:23:46
Speaker 1: power of which he is the image. Doctor Nicholas says
1:23:50
Speaker 1: it is a medical and physiological fact that the best
1:23:53
Speaker 1: blood of the body goes to form the elements of
1:23:55
Speaker 1: reproduction in both sexes. In a pure and orderly life,
1:23:59
Speaker 1: this matter is reabsorbed, it goes back into the circulation,
1:24:03
Speaker 1: ready to form the finest brain, nerve, and muscular tissue.
1:24:08
Speaker 1: This life of man, carried back and diffused through his system,
1:24:12
Speaker 1: makes him manly, strong, brave, heroic. The suspension of the
1:24:17
Speaker 1: use of the generative organs is attended with a notable
1:24:19
Speaker 1: increase of bodily and mental vigor and spiritual life. Nature
1:24:24
Speaker 1: finds another use for the unexpended sexual energy in employing
1:24:28
Speaker 1: it for the building up of a keener brain and
1:24:30
Speaker 1: more vital and enduring nerves and muscles. Doctor Kellogg says again,
1:24:36
Speaker 1: recent investigations have shown that the sexual glands are useful
1:24:40
Speaker 1: not only as a means of race perpetuation, but for
1:24:42
Speaker 1: the physical well being of the individual through the vital
1:24:45
Speaker 1: stimulus exercised by them, through the influence of their peculiar
1:24:49
Speaker 1: secretion upon the processes of development and nutrition. In view
1:24:53
Speaker 1: of this fact, it is evident that, so far as
1:24:56
Speaker 1: the individual is concerned, physical benefit is to be looked
1:24:59
Speaker 1: for not in the loss of the secretion of the
1:25:02
Speaker 1: sexual glands, but in its retention and appropriation. In other words,
1:25:07
Speaker 1: reproduction is accomplished at the sacrifice of individual interests, a
1:25:11
Speaker 1: law which prevails throughout the whole organic world, being in
1:25:15
Speaker 1: some instances so pronounced that the development of progeny is
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Speaker 1: accomplished only through the death of one or more parents.
1:25:22
Speaker 1: These discoveries afford thoroughly satisfactory in scientific explanations of two
1:25:27
Speaker 1: facts which heretofore have rested solely upon a basis of
1:25:30
Speaker 1: observation and experience, viz. One that continence is favorable to
1:25:34
Speaker 1: physical vigor. Two, that sexual intemperance is productive of exhaustion
1:25:39
Speaker 1: and debility to a most extraordinary degree. Professor Acton says,
1:25:44
Speaker 1: physiologically considered, it is not a fact that the power
1:25:47
Speaker 1: of secretion is annihilated in well formed adults, leading a
1:25:50
Speaker 1: healthy life, and yet remaining continent. No continent man need
1:25:55
Speaker 1: be deterred by the apocryphal fear of atrophy from leading
1:25:58
Speaker 1: a chaste life. It is a device of the unchaste,
1:26:02
Speaker 1: a lame excuse for their own incontinence, unfounded on any
1:26:05
Speaker 1: physiological law. I may state that, after many years experience,
1:26:10
Speaker 1: I have never seen an instance of atrophy of the
1:26:13
Speaker 1: generative organs from this cause I have. It is true
1:26:17
Speaker 1: met the complaint, But in what classes of cases does
1:26:20
Speaker 1: it occur? It arises in all instances from the exactly
1:26:25
Speaker 1: opposite cause abuse. Professor Newton says, it is important to
1:26:30
Speaker 1: know that there are other uses for the procreative element
1:26:33
Speaker 1: than the generation of physical offspring, and far better uses
1:26:36
Speaker 1: than its waste in momentary pleasure. It may indeed be
1:26:41
Speaker 1: better wasted than employed in imposing unwelcome burdens upon toiling
1:26:45
Speaker 1: and outraged women, But there should be no waste. This element,
1:26:50
Speaker 1: when retained in a system, may be coined into new thoughts,
1:26:53
Speaker 1: perhaps new inventions, grand conceptions of the true, the beautiful,
1:26:57
Speaker 1: the useful, or into fresh emotions of joy and impulses
1:27:01
Speaker 1: of kindness and blessing to all around. This is, in fact,
1:27:05
Speaker 1: but another department of procreation. It is the procreation of thoughts, ideas,
1:27:11
Speaker 1: feelings of goodwill, intuitions of truth. That is, it is
1:27:15
Speaker 1: the procreation on the mental and spiritual planes instead of
1:27:19
Speaker 1: on the physical plane. It is really just as really
1:27:22
Speaker 1: a part of the generitive function as is the beginning
1:27:24
Speaker 1: of physical offspring. It is by far the greater part,
1:27:28
Speaker 1: for physical procreation can ordinarily be participated in, but seldom,
1:27:33
Speaker 1: while mental and spiritual procreation may and should go on
1:27:36
Speaker 1: through all our earthly lives, yea, through all our immortal existence.
1:27:41
Speaker 1: Doctor Stockholm says, physicists have demonstrated with incontrovertible facts that
1:27:46
Speaker 1: it is eminently healthy to conserve the vital principle. The
1:27:49
Speaker 1: seminal secretion has a wonderfully imminent value, and if retained,
1:27:54
Speaker 1: is absorbed into the system and adds enormously to man's magnetic, mental,
1:27:58
Speaker 1: and spiritual force. Inordinary married life, this force is constantly
1:28:03
Speaker 1: being wasted. Other things being equal, the man who wisely
1:28:08
Speaker 1: conserves is improved in concentrated mental and physical power and effectiveness.
1:28:13
Speaker 1: Like a Daniel amid his companions, he builds and constructs.
1:28:18
Speaker 1: He is the organizer, an executive head of industries. He
1:28:21
Speaker 1: is the orator and the inventor. He is the leader
1:28:24
Speaker 1: of great movements because his power is drawn from an
1:28:27
Speaker 1: inexhaustible storage battery. Although woman has not the sperm to conserve,
1:28:32
Speaker 1: yet equally with man, she has the thrilling potency of
1:28:35
Speaker 1: sex that, when well directed, heals sensitive nerves, vitalizes the blood,
1:28:40
Speaker 1: and restores tissue. Doctor Tommy says, continance, if long continued,
1:28:46
Speaker 1: has been claimed to be the cause of impotence, but
1:28:49
Speaker 1: there is no valid reason for this belief. To prove
1:28:53
Speaker 1: the harmfulness of continence, an analog is brought forward between
1:28:56
Speaker 1: the atrophy of a muscle in enforced idleness and the
1:28:59
Speaker 1: injury took the sex organs in enforced abstinence, but the
1:29:03
Speaker 1: proof is somewhat feeble. The essential organs of generation are
1:29:07
Speaker 1: not muscles but glands, And who has ever heard of
1:29:11
Speaker 1: a tear gland atrophying for want of crying? The instinct
1:29:14
Speaker 1: of generation has been compared with the instinct of hunger
1:29:17
Speaker 1: and thirst, and as the latter must be satisfied, so
1:29:20
Speaker 1: it is held the former must be gratified. But there
1:29:23
Speaker 1: is no proper parallelism between these two instincts. Food and
1:29:28
Speaker 1: drink are vital necessities of the organism from the first
1:29:31
Speaker 1: day of conception, to replace the stuffs consumed in the
1:29:34
Speaker 1: metabolism of the vital functions. The generative instinct appears a
1:29:39
Speaker 1: number of years after birth, hence does not serve any
1:29:42
Speaker 1: vital necessity. Doctor Stockholm says the testes may be considered
1:29:47
Speaker 1: analogous to the salivary and lacrymal glands, in which there
1:29:50
Speaker 1: is no fluid secreted except at the demand of their
1:29:53
Speaker 1: respective functions. The thought of food makes the mouth water
1:29:57
Speaker 1: for a short time only, while the presence of food
1:30:00
Speaker 1: causes abundant yield of saliva. It is customary for physiologists
1:30:04
Speaker 1: to assume that the spermatic secretion is analogous to bile, which,
1:30:08
Speaker 1: when once formed, must be expelled. But substitute the word
1:30:13
Speaker 1: tears for bile, and you put before the mind and
1:30:16
Speaker 1: idea entirely different tears, as falling drops, are not essential
1:30:21
Speaker 1: to life and health. A man may be in perfect
1:30:24
Speaker 1: health and not cry once in five or fifty years.
1:30:28
Speaker 1: The lachrymal fluid is ever present, but in such small
1:30:31
Speaker 1: quantities that it is unnoticed. Where are the tears While
1:30:35
Speaker 1: they remain unshed, They are ever ready waiting to spring
1:30:39
Speaker 1: forth when there is an adequate cause. But they do
1:30:42
Speaker 1: not accumulate and distress the man because they are not
1:30:45
Speaker 1: shed daily, weekly or monthly. The component elements of the
1:30:49
Speaker 1: tears are prepared in the system. They are on hand,
1:30:52
Speaker 1: passing through the circulation, ready to mix and flow whenever
1:30:55
Speaker 1: they are needed. But if they mix, accumulate, and flow
1:30:59
Speaker 1: without adequate cast cause, there is a disease of the
1:31:01
Speaker 1: lacrymal glands. While there are no exact analogies in the body,
1:31:06
Speaker 1: yet the tears and the spermatic fluids are much more
1:31:09
Speaker 1: closely analogous in their normal manner of secretion and used
1:31:12
Speaker 1: than are the bile and the seamen. Neither flow of
1:31:15
Speaker 1: tears nor of seamen is essential to life or health.
1:31:19
Speaker 1: Both are largely under the control of the imagination, the emotions,
1:31:23
Speaker 1: the will, and the flow of either is liable to
1:31:26
Speaker 1: be arrested in a moment of sudden mental action. The
1:31:29
Speaker 1: mammary gland is an apt illustration of the law of
1:31:32
Speaker 1: supply and demand in its anatomical construction and physiological function.
1:31:38
Speaker 1: Is it not analogous to the sea producing gland of
1:31:40
Speaker 1: the male. No one has ever hinted that it is
1:31:43
Speaker 1: essential for health that the natural lacteal fluid of the
1:31:46
Speaker 1: mammary gland must be continually or frequently secreted or expelled.
1:31:51
Speaker 1: It is not considered a physical necessity or a demand
1:31:54
Speaker 1: of nature. Indeed, the contrary opinion prevails that a too
1:31:59
Speaker 1: abundant flow of milk is derogative to healthful conditions. Milk
1:32:03
Speaker 1: flows in answer to the demand of a newborn infant,
1:32:06
Speaker 1: and should it come at any other time than when
1:32:09
Speaker 1: thus demanded, it is considered a perversion of nature and
1:32:12
Speaker 1: an unnecessary drain upon the system. May it not prove
1:32:16
Speaker 1: that the unnecessary secretion and expulsion of the semen is
1:32:19
Speaker 1: as great a perversion of nature? May it not also
1:32:23
Speaker 1: prove that erectal tissue in action is not a positive
1:32:26
Speaker 1: evidence of secretion in the gland. Parkhurst, riding along the
1:32:30
Speaker 1: same general lines, says the prostatic fluid, according to Robin,
1:32:35
Speaker 1: is secreted at the moment of ejaculation. The remaining element
1:32:39
Speaker 1: of the spermatic secretion is produced under normal circumstances, only
1:32:43
Speaker 1: as required, either for impregnation or for the maintenance of
1:32:47
Speaker 1: the affectional function. The theory that the sperm is naturally
1:32:51
Speaker 1: secreted only as it is required brings it into harmony
1:32:54
Speaker 1: with other secretions. The tears, the saliva, and the perspiration
1:32:59
Speaker 1: are all always required in small quantities, and the secretion
1:33:03
Speaker 1: is continuous, but if required in large quantities, the secretion
1:33:06
Speaker 1: becomes great almost instantly. The mother's milk is chiefly secreted
1:33:11
Speaker 1: just as it is required for the infant, and when
1:33:14
Speaker 1: not required, the secretion entirely ceases, yet it recommences the
1:33:18
Speaker 1: moment the birth of another child makes it necessary. A
1:33:22
Speaker 1: man accustomed to abstinence will not suffer from any accumulation
1:33:25
Speaker 1: of secretions, while a man whose absorbing glands have never
1:33:28
Speaker 1: had trouble to take up the secretions will be in trouble,
1:33:32
Speaker 1: just as a dairy cow which has not been milked
1:33:34
Speaker 1: will be in trouble, though if running wild, she would
1:33:36
Speaker 1: never have any necessity for milking. The objection that man
1:33:39
Speaker 1: needs physical relief from a continuous secretion is answered by
1:33:43
Speaker 1: the admitted fact that men not deficient in sexual vigor
1:33:47
Speaker 1: live for months and probably for years in strict abstinence
1:33:51
Speaker 1: without the physical inconvenience, such as is often complained of
1:33:55
Speaker 1: by men who happen to be deprived of their accustomed
1:33:57
Speaker 1: indulgence for a week or two at a time. An
1:34:01
Speaker 1: anonymous writer on the subject of sex polarity, the identity
1:34:04
Speaker 1: of whom, however, is known to the present writers, several
1:34:08
Speaker 1: years ago, said nature devotes a great amount of energy
1:34:12
Speaker 1: to the task of reproducing living forms. Many of the
1:34:16
Speaker 1: lower forms of life seem to live merely for the
1:34:18
Speaker 1: purpose of reproducing life, of passing along the flame of
1:34:22
Speaker 1: life from torch to torch. Nature's reproductive energies are highly
1:34:26
Speaker 1: concentrated and are wonderfully potent. The amount of creative energy
1:34:31
Speaker 1: concentrated and compressed into the mustard seed is equal to
1:34:34
Speaker 1: that diffused over a whole large plant. In fact, the
1:34:38
Speaker 1: essence of the entire creative energy which is to serve
1:34:41
Speaker 1: the plant for its lifetime, must be stored up within
1:34:43
Speaker 1: the seed itself, for the vital force cannot come from outside,
1:34:47
Speaker 1: although the outer nourishment is needed to build up the
1:34:49
Speaker 1: physical shape, form, and substance of the plant. The germ
1:34:54
Speaker 1: of the animal contains within itself enough stored up energy
1:34:57
Speaker 1: to carry the creature through its normal period of life.
1:35:00
Speaker 1: In the processes of reproduction and procreation, nature avails herself
1:35:05
Speaker 1: of her inner powers, and every minute she works miracles
1:35:08
Speaker 1: of concentration and conservation of energy. The ancient occultists recognize
1:35:13
Speaker 1: the wonderful power stored in the reproductive organism, which is
1:35:16
Speaker 1: given out not only in the act of actual reproduction
1:35:19
Speaker 1: and procreation, but which may also be dissipated in the
1:35:22
Speaker 1: unnatural excesses and practices to which the race is addicted.
1:35:26
Speaker 1: They soon discovered that this wonderful concentrated power could be
1:35:30
Speaker 1: used not only for the purpose of generation, but also
1:35:33
Speaker 1: for the purpose of regeneration of the life activities within
1:35:36
Speaker 1: one's own body, the exhaustion of which occurs if the
1:35:39
Speaker 1: vital forces be given out in procreation or waste. In
1:35:43
Speaker 1: other words, that the wonderfully concentrated forces of the sexual functions,
1:35:48
Speaker 1: if not otherwise used or dissipated, might be used by
1:35:51
Speaker 1: the individual himself or herself in re energizing, recharging, or
1:35:55
Speaker 1: regenerating the vital powers within his or her own organism.
1:36:00
Speaker 1: This was one of the reasons that Continents was enjoined
1:36:02
Speaker 1: as a duty upon the members of the ancient esoteric
1:36:05
Speaker 1: and occult brotherhoods and sisterhoods. Outside of the list of
1:36:09
Speaker 1: the occult brotherhoods, all of whose staunch members were strictly continent,
1:36:13
Speaker 1: history gives us a long list of eminent men who
1:36:16
Speaker 1: followed the practice of continents, which indicates the correctness of
1:36:19
Speaker 1: the old occult teachings of generation Newton, Kant, Pascal, Michael, Angelo, Plato,
1:36:26
Speaker 1: and many other eminent men were strictly continent. All the
1:36:30
Speaker 1: great occultists and mystics of ancient times observed strict continents.
1:36:35
Speaker 1: The Greek athletes training for the Great Olympic Games were
1:36:38
Speaker 1: required to observe strict continents, the experience of the trainers
1:36:42
Speaker 1: being that by following this course the athletes were able
1:36:44
Speaker 1: to conserve their strength and vigor much better than otherwise.
1:36:48
Speaker 1: The prize fighters of today are compelled by their trainers
1:36:51
Speaker 1: and backers to observe strict continents during the period of
1:36:54
Speaker 1: training for the combat. Many of the former champions who
1:36:59
Speaker 1: went to pieces as suddenly owe their downfall to a
1:37:02
Speaker 1: violation of this rule. Doctor Henderson, reporting his experience among
1:37:07
Speaker 1: men subjected to great strain in tropical countries, said, I
1:37:10
Speaker 1: have seen many suffer severely destroying their strength, health, and
1:37:14
Speaker 1: happiness and life by following the promptings of their unbridled passions.
1:37:20
Speaker 1: Need I say that I have never seen a man
1:37:22
Speaker 1: suffer from keeping himself pure. Doctor Tommy says, the conventional
1:37:27
Speaker 1: view that in continence in men is a necessary condition
1:37:30
Speaker 1: of health must be corrected. Instead of the popular fallacy
1:37:34
Speaker 1: that a young man is physically the worse for a
1:37:36
Speaker 1: clean moral life. The entire weight of the world's foremost
1:37:39
Speaker 1: medical scholars is unreservedly of the opinion that he is
1:37:42
Speaker 1: physically better for it. It is recognized by the highest
1:37:46
Speaker 1: authorities that continance is perfectly compatible with the most perfect health. Chastity,
1:37:52
Speaker 1: properly understood, is health. It never does harm to mind
1:37:56
Speaker 1: or body. It is the consensus of the opinions of
1:37:59
Speaker 1: the great man medical thinkers that it is not prejudicial
1:38:02
Speaker 1: to the health of man to keep his body clean.
1:38:05
Speaker 1: Doctor Armitage says, a writer has said, chastity, Yes, even
1:38:09
Speaker 1: continance is the prime necessity of the successful athlete. It
1:38:14
Speaker 1: is further urged in support of this view that the
1:38:17
Speaker 1: male animals, even though so active sexually as the bull,
1:38:20
Speaker 1: are known to maintain perfect health and vigor when forced
1:38:23
Speaker 1: to live apart from the females. Moreover, the best breeders
1:38:28
Speaker 1: of animals know very well that restraint and moderation on
1:38:31
Speaker 1: the part of their male animals will result in an
1:38:33
Speaker 1: improvement of the stock as compared with the opposite course.
1:38:37
Speaker 1: Doctor Kellogg also has reminded us that breeders of stock
1:38:41
Speaker 1: who wish to secure sound progeny will not allow the
1:38:43
Speaker 1: most robust stallion to associate with mares as many times
1:38:47
Speaker 1: during the whole season as some of these salacious human
1:38:50
Speaker 1: males perform a similar act within a month. Doctor Sperry
1:38:54
Speaker 1: says it is true that moderate sexual activity tends temporarily
1:38:58
Speaker 1: at least to increase use and intensify the sexual impulses
1:39:02
Speaker 1: and energies, but such exaltation of sexuality is not evidence
1:39:06
Speaker 1: of increased general healthfulness and efficiency if the usual physiological
1:39:11
Speaker 1: expression of sexuality be held in check its energies, which
1:39:15
Speaker 1: most easily it is true seek expression in sexual lines
1:39:19
Speaker 1: are transferred to the other departments to which they contribute
1:39:22
Speaker 1: largely in the life and power of each and in
1:39:25
Speaker 1: the material addition of general vigor. The force then becomes
1:39:29
Speaker 1: creative or productive in other lines. In other words, sexuality
1:39:34
Speaker 1: if it be denied the reproductive expression, and provided that
1:39:38
Speaker 1: it also be kept from artificial excitation, seems to develop
1:39:41
Speaker 1: a sort of dynamic force or energy, which the nutritive,
1:39:44
Speaker 1: the motor, and the relational departments can use to their
1:39:47
Speaker 1: individual and collective advantage. On the other hand, those who
1:39:51
Speaker 1: unnaturally or excessively expand along sexual lines what may seem
1:39:56
Speaker 1: to them to be exclusively sexual energy available only for
1:39:59
Speaker 1: sexual exc expression, thereby deprived the system at large of
1:40:02
Speaker 1: what might have become general stimulation and vitality. Indeed, the
1:40:07
Speaker 1: sexual department of a continent adult seems to be a
1:40:10
Speaker 1: sort of storage battery of vitality, a veritable reservoir for
1:40:13
Speaker 1: surplus energy. This energy, which seems so like a tremendous
1:40:18
Speaker 1: dynamic force, may be expended just as each individual shall elect.
1:40:22
Speaker 1: It may be wasted in lustful and abnormal sensuality, or
1:40:25
Speaker 1: it may be used partly for the legitimate purposes of
1:40:28
Speaker 1: reproduction and the remainder in lustful practices. Or it may
1:40:32
Speaker 1: be expended in exalting and intensifying the nutritive, the muscular,
1:40:36
Speaker 1: and the mental life. This remarkable fact is of great
1:40:40
Speaker 1: practical importance. Illustrations and quotations along the same lines might
1:40:45
Speaker 1: be continued at much greater length, but those which have
1:40:48
Speaker 1: just been presented will serve to give you a general
1:40:50
Speaker 1: idea of the thought concerning this subject, which has been
1:40:53
Speaker 1: current among thinking persons for the last twenty five years
1:40:56
Speaker 1: and more. Some of these modern thinkers are fully cognit
1:41:00
Speaker 1: is and of the resemblance of their thought to that
1:41:02
Speaker 1: of the ancients, whose minds have been directed along the
1:41:04
Speaker 1: same channels. Others seem not to have been aware of
1:41:07
Speaker 1: the fact that as long ago as twenty five hundred
1:41:09
Speaker 1: years or more, the thoughts of men were striving to
1:41:12
Speaker 1: uncover the workings of this same principle. You will note, however,
1:41:16
Speaker 1: that these modern seekers after truth along these lines employ
1:41:20
Speaker 1: the terms of physiology instead of those of metaphysics or
1:41:23
Speaker 1: of occultism. They have been striving to account for the
1:41:27
Speaker 1: phenomena of regeneration or transmutation of sex energy by the
1:41:30
Speaker 1: theories of gland secretions and similar physiological processes. This is
1:41:36
Speaker 1: especially remarkable in view of the fact that, at the
1:41:39
Speaker 1: time when most of the above quoted statements of fact
1:41:42
Speaker 1: and theory were written by the persons named, the recent
1:41:44
Speaker 1: scientific discoveries concerning the effect of the secretions of the
1:41:48
Speaker 1: duckless glands had not as yet been made, nor had
1:41:51
Speaker 1: there been as yet conducted the recent experiments in gland
1:41:54
Speaker 1: transplantation which have given positive evidence of the proof of
1:41:57
Speaker 1: the general theory of regeneration or transmutation of sex energy,
1:42:01
Speaker 1: regenerative power, vital rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
1:42:09
Speaker 1: The ductless glands. Advanced investigators in the ranks of physiological
1:42:14
Speaker 1: research have in recent years made very important discoveries concerning
1:42:18
Speaker 1: the secretions of the various glands of the animal body,
1:42:21
Speaker 1: including of course the human body, and their effect upon
1:42:24
Speaker 1: the health, vigor, growth, and general functioning of the entire body.
1:42:29
Speaker 1: The duckless glands of the body especially, have been found
1:42:33
Speaker 1: to secrete substances of the greatest value in the physiological processes,
1:42:37
Speaker 1: the absence of which has been found to cause deterioration
1:42:41
Speaker 1: and degeneracy of parts of the body, and the stimulation
1:42:44
Speaker 1: of which, by artificial methods, has been found to cause
1:42:46
Speaker 1: renewed activity, strength, and vigor to such parts. The term secretion,
1:42:52
Speaker 1: in the sense in which the term is employed in physiology,
1:42:55
Speaker 1: means any substance secreted ie separated from the blood elaborated
1:43:00
Speaker 1: into a new substance. The term gland, as employed in physiology,
1:43:06
Speaker 1: means an organ whose function is that of secreting some
1:43:09
Speaker 1: substance to be used in or to be eliminated from
1:43:12
Speaker 1: the body. Physiology divides the glands into two general classes, viz.
1:43:19
Speaker 1: One the true secreting glands and two the duckless glands.
1:43:24
Speaker 1: The true secreting glands are defined as the special organs
1:43:28
Speaker 1: which are intended for the production of the chief secretions
1:43:31
Speaker 1: as e g. The lacrymal glands, the mammary glands, the
1:43:34
Speaker 1: salivary glands, the liver, the pancreas, and the kidneys. The
1:43:39
Speaker 1: principal duckless glands, according to the customary classification are as
1:43:44
Speaker 1: follows the superhinal capsules, the spleen, the thymus, the thyroid,
1:43:49
Speaker 1: the perithyroids, the pituitary body, and the pineal glands. And
1:43:53
Speaker 1: although orthodox physiology vigorously resents and combats the suggestion, the
1:43:58
Speaker 1: advanced investigators hold them that the testes and the ovaries
1:44:01
Speaker 1: are additional duckless glands, and that they secrete subtle substances
1:44:05
Speaker 1: as do the other duckless glands. In addition to serving
1:44:08
Speaker 1: the better known office of self formation for reproductive purposes.
1:44:14
Speaker 1: In the present inquiry, we have little or no concern
1:44:17
Speaker 1: with the so called true secreting glands viz. The glands
1:44:20
Speaker 1: secreting the saliva, the tears, the sweat, the bile, the
1:44:24
Speaker 1: pancreatic juices, the milk, et cetera. These glands and their
1:44:29
Speaker 1: secretions highly important, though they are are different in structure
1:44:33
Speaker 1: and in office from the other great class of glands
1:44:35
Speaker 1: which we are called upon to consider in our investigations
1:44:38
Speaker 1: concerning the processes of regeneration. Accordingly, we shall now pass
1:44:43
Speaker 1: them by with the above scant mention the duckless glands.
1:44:48
Speaker 1: The following definition of the duckless glands, taken from an
1:44:51
Speaker 1: authoritative reference work, represents the Orthodox view of their character
1:44:55
Speaker 1: and function. Glands of the second class i e. The
1:44:59
Speaker 1: d duckless glands, resemble those of the first class i e.
1:45:03
Speaker 1: The true secreting glands in external conformation and in the
1:45:07
Speaker 1: possession of a solid paranchemitist tissue, but differ from them
1:45:10
Speaker 1: in the absence of a duct or opening for the
1:45:12
Speaker 1: removal of the products of secretion. And indeed, except in
1:45:16
Speaker 1: the case of the thymus, no material resembling a secreted
1:45:20
Speaker 1: product is yielded by any of them. In all of them,
1:45:23
Speaker 1: the tissue mainly consists of cells and nuclei, with a
1:45:27
Speaker 1: great abundance of blood vessels. They furnish necessary material to
1:45:31
Speaker 1: the body in some as yet uncertain way. If they
1:45:35
Speaker 1: are removed by operation, or are absent from birth or
1:45:38
Speaker 1: atrophied during life, the result is a condition of disease.
1:45:43
Speaker 1: The duckless glands seem to produce some substance of great
1:45:46
Speaker 1: importance to the well being of the body, but what
1:45:49
Speaker 1: it is and how it affects the organism are still
1:45:52
Speaker 1: involved in difficulties. However, as they are all closely associated
1:45:57
Speaker 1: with the blood system, they may as well be called
1:45:59
Speaker 1: the vascular glands. The reluctance of Orthodox physiologists to admit
1:46:04
Speaker 1: the ductless glands, and especially the testes and the ovaries,
1:46:08
Speaker 1: to the category of true secreting glands, which is evident
1:46:11
Speaker 1: in the above quotation, is still more evident in the
1:46:14
Speaker 1: following additional quotation from the same authoritative Orthodox reference work.
1:46:19
Speaker 1: Neither a definition nor a classification of glands has yet
1:46:23
Speaker 1: been agreed upon by comparative anatomists, since the word itself
1:46:27
Speaker 1: offers no clue to its real meaning. We must attempt
1:46:30
Speaker 1: to define it from universally accepted examples. Among these may
1:46:34
Speaker 1: be mentioned salivary glands, lachrymal glands, sweat glands, and poison glands.
1:46:41
Speaker 1: All of these are organs which produce some particular substance
1:46:44
Speaker 1: from the blood with which they are supplied. Furthermore, this
1:46:47
Speaker 1: substance is not cellular nor living, but is a mere
1:46:50
Speaker 1: chemical product. These facts give us a clue to our definition,
1:46:55
Speaker 1: and we may say that a gland is any cell
1:46:57
Speaker 1: or group of cells whose function is the production of
1:47:00
Speaker 1: a chemical substance, usually fluid, peculiar to itself. Such a
1:47:05
Speaker 1: definition will not include all those organs to which the
1:47:08
Speaker 1: name gland is given, but it will include all to
1:47:11
Speaker 1: which it ought to be applied. As an example of
1:47:14
Speaker 1: the incorrect use of the term, we may refer to
1:47:17
Speaker 1: reproductive or genital glands as applied to the testis or ovary.
1:47:22
Speaker 1: These organs are not in any true sense glands, for
1:47:25
Speaker 1: they do not produce any chemical substance peculiar to themselves,
1:47:29
Speaker 1: but are simply the portions of the body where those
1:47:31
Speaker 1: cells are formed, from which the next generation arises. So
1:47:35
Speaker 1: also the use of gland in connection with the superhinal capsule,
1:47:39
Speaker 1: the pituitary body, and the pineal body is incorrect and confusing.
1:47:44
Speaker 1: The above statement that the term gland is properly to
1:47:48
Speaker 1: be limited so as not to include all those organs
1:47:50
Speaker 1: to which the name gland is given, but all to
1:47:53
Speaker 1: which it ought to be applied, is rather naive and
1:47:56
Speaker 1: ingenuous coming from such a source. In spite of this
1:48:00
Speaker 1: its ultra conservative position, however, advanced physiologists continue to apply
1:48:04
Speaker 1: the term gland to a constantly widening class of physical organs,
1:48:09
Speaker 1: the inclusion of the genitals being particularly insisted upon for
1:48:13
Speaker 1: good and valid reasons. Indeed, in other parts of the
1:48:17
Speaker 1: same reference book from which the above is quoted, we
1:48:20
Speaker 1: find the following statement. The larger glands, such as the liver, kidney, pancreas, spleen, thyroid, thymus, testicle,
1:48:28
Speaker 1: and even the pituitary gland have all their special diseases.
1:48:32
Speaker 1: So we feel justified in continuing to use the term
1:48:35
Speaker 1: gland as it actually is employed by advanced physiologists, instead
1:48:40
Speaker 1: of as it ought to be according to this ultra
1:48:42
Speaker 1: orthodox authority. Let us now consider in a little further
1:48:46
Speaker 1: detail the various ductless glands, which, as we have seen,
1:48:49
Speaker 1: furnish necessary material to the body in some as yet
1:48:53
Speaker 1: unascertained way, and which, if they are removed by operation,
1:48:56
Speaker 1: or are absent from birth or atrophied during life, result
1:49:00
Speaker 1: in a condition of disease, and which seem to produce
1:49:03
Speaker 1: some substance of great importance to the well being of
1:49:06
Speaker 1: the body, though what it is and how it affects
1:49:08
Speaker 1: the organism are still involved in difficulties. The thyroid gland
1:49:13
Speaker 1: is a very vascular ie vessel containing gland lying on
1:49:18
Speaker 1: the front and sides of the larynx ie upper end
1:49:21
Speaker 1: of the windpipe. It secretes and stores large amounts of
1:49:25
Speaker 1: iodine combinations and other chemical substances. The thyroid secretions have
1:49:30
Speaker 1: trophic ie nutritive functions connected with the feeding or nourishing
1:49:35
Speaker 1: of the nervous system. Absence of the thyroid gland in
1:49:38
Speaker 1: children is characteristic of credanism ie idiosity, accompanied by physical
1:49:43
Speaker 1: degeneracy in deformity, usually with goiter. Atrophy of the thyroid
1:49:48
Speaker 1: gland in adults causes mixedema. Hypertrophy of the thyroid gland
1:49:53
Speaker 1: causes Bastou's disease. Removal of the thyroid gland is followed
1:49:58
Speaker 1: by diminished albumine and thith fat metabolism and lessened assimilation
1:50:02
Speaker 1: of sugar. The function of the thyroid gland is stated
1:50:06
Speaker 1: to be that of the production of an internal secretion
1:50:08
Speaker 1: which influences bodily nutrition in many ways. The prepared extract
1:50:13
Speaker 1: of the thyroid glands of sheep are employed in the
1:50:16
Speaker 1: treatment of diseases brought about by the atrophy or loss
1:50:19
Speaker 1: of functioning of the thyroid gland. This treatment consists of
1:50:23
Speaker 1: feeding the patient with the extract of the thyroid gland
1:50:26
Speaker 1: of sheep or of the dried gland itself, together with
1:50:29
Speaker 1: phosphoric acid and iron tonics. Grafting of the thyroid gland
1:50:34
Speaker 1: by transplanting the thyroid of an animal upon the human
1:50:37
Speaker 1: patient has also been employed. The prepared extract of the
1:50:41
Speaker 1: thyroid gland of the sheep, however, is the customary in
1:50:44
Speaker 1: generally preferred treatment. The secretions of the thyroid gland stimulate
1:50:49
Speaker 1: and are stimulated by the secretions of the reproductive glands.
1:50:53
Speaker 1: A reference work says the thyroid gland has a very
1:50:57
Speaker 1: profound influence on nutrition and disorders of it set up
1:51:00
Speaker 1: very definite physiological disturbances. Many nervous manifestations are due to
1:51:06
Speaker 1: a lack of its secretion, and accordingly, these diseases are
1:51:09
Speaker 1: effectively treated by doses of thyroid extract. The gland is
1:51:14
Speaker 1: also given in obesity, certain forms of neurasthenia, chronic rheumatism,
1:51:18
Speaker 1: chronic skin diseases, and disturbances of nutrition in the scalp,
1:51:22
Speaker 1: hair and nails, and in many other conditions. Due to
1:51:26
Speaker 1: faulty metabolism, thyroid must be given with care and in
1:51:30
Speaker 1: small doses at first, since it contains great possibilities for harm.
1:51:35
Speaker 1: The parathyroid glands are small glands closely connected with the
1:51:39
Speaker 1: thyroid gland, though having quite different functions and offices. The
1:51:43
Speaker 1: parathyroids are regarded as a neuromuscular balance wheel or control. Moreover,
1:51:49
Speaker 1: their secretions have anti toxic properties, and when these glands
1:51:53
Speaker 1: are removed, tetanus or lack jaw frequently results. Unlike the
1:51:58
Speaker 1: thyroid gland, the secrete jetions of the perithyroids contain no iodine.
1:52:03
Speaker 1: They influence calcium metabolism, and the tetanus which results from
1:52:07
Speaker 1: their removal is believed to be caused by the withdrawal
1:52:10
Speaker 1: of calcium from the cells. As these conditions are promptly
1:52:13
Speaker 1: relieved by calcium feeding. The extract of the perithyroids is
1:52:18
Speaker 1: employed in medical practice in paralysis, adjutants, tetanus, epilepsy, and chorea.
1:52:24
Speaker 1: The pituitary body or hypothesis is a small glandular body
1:52:28
Speaker 1: situated at the base of the brain. It is described
1:52:32
Speaker 1: as consisting of two portions, seeming to have different functions
1:52:36
Speaker 1: not as yet determined. In some manner, its secretion seem
1:52:40
Speaker 1: to preside over the nutrition of the skeleton, and one
1:52:43
Speaker 1: of its portions is believed to stimulate the smooth muscle
1:52:46
Speaker 1: of the uterus. Its secretions are now employed in medical
1:52:50
Speaker 1: practice in connection with the unstriped muscle fiber of the uterus.
1:52:54
Speaker 1: Pituitary extract is administered to hasten labour, to stimulate the
1:52:59
Speaker 1: peristaltic action of the intestine in poetic conditions, in shock,
1:53:03
Speaker 1: in uterine hemorrhage, in a menorrhea, in poluria, and also
1:53:07
Speaker 1: to stimulate the secretion of milk. The pineal gland or
1:53:11
Speaker 1: epiphesis is a small gland closely related to the pituitary
1:53:15
Speaker 1: body or hypothesis and situated just behind it. Its functions
1:53:20
Speaker 1: and offices are still somewhat in doubt, but leading authorities
1:53:24
Speaker 1: have held that during early life it influences the development
1:53:26
Speaker 1: of the reproductive organism, that it influences the deposit of
1:53:30
Speaker 1: subcutaneous fat, and that it has an effect upon general
1:53:33
Speaker 1: physical mental growth and development. Advanced practitioners have treated cases
1:53:39
Speaker 1: of mentally backward children by administering a watery extract of
1:53:42
Speaker 1: the pineal gland of bullocks and have reported favorable results.
1:53:47
Speaker 1: The thymus gland is located in the neck of infants,
1:53:50
Speaker 1: behind the sternum or breastbone. It normally disappears in adult life,
1:53:54
Speaker 1: its functions being actively manifested in fetal life and early
1:53:58
Speaker 1: childhood those to regulate nutrition and to control blood pressure.
1:54:03
Speaker 1: It is intimately related to growth and development. During its
1:54:06
Speaker 1: period of activity, it seems to be concerned with the
1:54:10
Speaker 1: retention of the calcium salts by the body and in
1:54:13
Speaker 1: the ossification of bone. In advanced medical practice, and extract
1:54:17
Speaker 1: of the thymus gland is administered in the treatment of malnutrition,
1:54:21
Speaker 1: delayed development, rickets, certain forms of goiter chlorosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
1:54:27
Speaker 1: The adrenal glands or superhinal capsules are two small bodies
1:54:32
Speaker 1: situated immediately in front of the upper end of each kidney.
1:54:36
Speaker 1: Their internal secretion is highly essential to life. Their function
1:54:40
Speaker 1: is to control the pigmentation of the skin, to arrest
1:54:43
Speaker 1: the action of poisons in the body, and to govern
1:54:46
Speaker 1: the vasomotor system regulating blood pressure. Extracts of these secretions
1:54:51
Speaker 1: are employed in medical practice in eye, nose, and throat
1:54:54
Speaker 1: surgery to control bleeding, and they are also administered internally
1:54:58
Speaker 1: in diseases marked by exscis secessive bleeding or hemorrhages. Also
1:55:02
Speaker 1: in some cases of tuberculosis and of asthma. The dried
1:55:06
Speaker 1: and prepared adrenal or superinal substances of animals constitute a
1:55:10
Speaker 1: powerful and valuable astringent and hemistatic Superinal extract and adrenaline
1:55:16
Speaker 1: are recognized medicinal agents of great value. They relieve surgical
1:55:20
Speaker 1: shock and in certain diseases, prolonged life for long periods.
1:55:24
Speaker 1: The consideration of the above stated subject of the duckless
1:55:28
Speaker 1: glands and their internal secretions results in the discovery of
1:55:31
Speaker 1: two important facts, viz. One that the duckless glands and
1:55:35
Speaker 1: their internal secretions play a most important part in the
1:55:38
Speaker 1: vital processes of the body, and two that these internal
1:55:42
Speaker 1: secretions of the duckless glands are so definitely designed for
1:55:45
Speaker 1: certain vital offices that extracts made from them have been
1:55:49
Speaker 1: and are effectively employed in the treatment of disease by
1:55:53
Speaker 1: advanced practitioners of medicine. Let us consider each of these
1:55:57
Speaker 1: two leading facts in a little further detail, the internal secretions.
1:56:03
Speaker 1: The New International Encyclopedia, in its article upon internal secretions,
1:56:08
Speaker 1: says internal secretions are substances secreted by animal organs or
1:56:13
Speaker 1: tissues which preside over the development, growth, reproduction, and the
1:56:17
Speaker 1: chemical regulation of the body. They are also called hormones
1:56:21
Speaker 1: and are defined by Kirks as substances produced by one
1:56:25
Speaker 1: tissue or organ to which some other portion of the
1:56:27
Speaker 1: body has been biologically adapted to such an extent that
1:56:30
Speaker 1: its normal function can proceed only under the influence of
1:56:33
Speaker 1: the substance. The more important organs which, according to modern views,
1:56:39
Speaker 1: produce internal secretions are the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, thymus, superhinals
1:56:45
Speaker 1: and chromophin tissues. The pancreas, the duodenal and pyloric mucosa,
1:56:50
Speaker 1: the liver, kidney, testis, ovary, corpus, lutium, placenta, and fetus.
1:56:56
Speaker 1: These substances are definite, but complex chemical bodies differ from
1:57:01
Speaker 1: the enzymes in being thermostable. By these enzymes, we mean
1:57:05
Speaker 1: the external secretions such as diastase, pepsin, typsin, et cetera,
1:57:11
Speaker 1: elaborated by the digestive organs. The function of the internal
1:57:15
Speaker 1: secretions seems to be to provoke the manufacture of enzymes
1:57:18
Speaker 1: and to promote their action, and generally to act as
1:57:21
Speaker 1: excitance to physiologic activity. The hormones which definitely have been
1:57:26
Speaker 1: proved to exist are the pancreatic secretion formed in the
1:57:30
Speaker 1: epithelium of the duodenal mucous membrane, which stimulates the flow
1:57:34
Speaker 1: of pancreatic juice, a hormone formed in the pancreas which
1:57:37
Speaker 1: influences the absorptive activity of the intestinal epithelium. The gastric
1:57:42
Speaker 1: secretin formed in the pyloric mucosa, which stimulates the secretion
1:57:46
Speaker 1: of gastric juice. Vasodilator hormones formed in functionally active tissue
1:57:51
Speaker 1: which have a specific effect upon the vessels of the
1:57:54
Speaker 1: functioning organ a vasic constricting and diuretic hormones secreted in
1:57:58
Speaker 1: the posterior lobe of the p tuitary body, another vasic
1:58:02
Speaker 1: constricting hormone in the kidneys, a hormone produced in the
1:58:05
Speaker 1: anterior lobe of the pituitary body, determining the growth of
1:58:08
Speaker 1: bone and connective tissue. A hormone controlling the oxidation of
1:58:12
Speaker 1: sugar manufactured in the pancreas. A thymous hormone which influences
1:58:17
Speaker 1: the development of the reproductive organs. A hormone produced by
1:58:20
Speaker 1: the salivary glands which controls the flow of water from
1:58:24
Speaker 1: the blood capillaries in these glands. A fetal hormone which
1:58:28
Speaker 1: stimulates the growth of the mammary glands. Ovarian and testicular
1:58:31
Speaker 1: hormones which have to do with the processes of reproduction.
1:58:36
Speaker 1: The subject of the internal secretions is one of no
1:58:38
Speaker 1: little intricacy. A deficiency or an excess of one or
1:58:42
Speaker 1: several of these secretions, it will be seen, may upset
1:58:46
Speaker 1: the whole chemical balance of metabolism. Indeed, without certain of
1:58:51
Speaker 1: these secretions, the body cannot live. The action of the
1:58:54
Speaker 1: internal secretions is complex and as yet imperfectly understood. Acts, however,
1:59:01
Speaker 1: have been collated from experimental observations which throw considerable light
1:59:05
Speaker 1: upon this obscure subject. Some of these observations illustrate the
1:59:09
Speaker 1: manner in which hormone balance is preserved the therapeutic value
1:59:14
Speaker 1: of the internal secretions. In modern medicine there is found
1:59:18
Speaker 1: frequent reference to what is called organotherapy or opitherapy, which
1:59:23
Speaker 1: terms are employed to indicate the use of animal organs,
1:59:26
Speaker 1: their extracts, or active principles as medicines. As we have
1:59:31
Speaker 1: stated in the preceding pages, the extract of the several
1:59:34
Speaker 1: duckless glands are now being employed extensively in the treatment
1:59:38
Speaker 1: of certain diseases, particularly those diseases which are held to
1:59:41
Speaker 1: result from a deficiency of the particular internal secretion in question.
1:59:46
Speaker 1: Modern organotherapy usually is held to have begun with Brown Sequord,
1:59:50
Speaker 1: although in eighteen fifty Berthel began a serious investigation of
1:59:54
Speaker 1: the internal secretions of the duckless glands, followed shortly after
1:59:58
Speaker 1: by those of Claude propos. Brown secret advanced as his
2:00:02
Speaker 1: basic principle the following axiomatic statement. All glands of the body,
2:00:07
Speaker 1: whether they are excratory canals or not, give to the
2:00:10
Speaker 1: blood useful principles, the absence of which is felt when
2:00:13
Speaker 1: the glands are extirpated or destroyed by disease. Subsequent investigations
2:00:18
Speaker 1: and observations have tended to corroborate the Brown secred basic principle.
2:00:23
Speaker 1: The New International Encyclopedia, in its article upon organotherapy says,
2:00:28
Speaker 1: almost every gland and tissue in the body has been
2:00:30
Speaker 1: studied experimentally, and several substances of unique value have been
2:00:34
Speaker 1: added to our therapeutic resources e g. Adrenaline, thyroid extract,
2:00:39
Speaker 1: and pituitary extract. To a large extent. However, organotherapy still
2:00:45
Speaker 1: rests upon an empirical basis, and this for several reasons.
2:00:49
Speaker 1: Some of these glands have more than one active principle.
2:00:52
Speaker 1: Similar physiological effects are produced by several glands. Antagonisms are
2:00:57
Speaker 1: observed between certain glands and even parts of the same gland,
2:01:00
Speaker 1: and it is difficult to analyze the symptoms calling for
2:01:03
Speaker 1: a particular principle. There is a great difficulty in securing
2:01:07
Speaker 1: active preparations, many of those on the market being inert.
2:01:10
Speaker 1: And finally, there is undoubtedly a subtle, vital difference between
2:01:15
Speaker 1: animal extracts and their human equivalent. By many writers, these
2:01:20
Speaker 1: active principles are considered as chemical entities, which they term hormones,
2:01:24
Speaker 1: Typical examples of which are secretin adrenaline and thyroid extract.
2:01:29
Speaker 1: Animal extracts should be prepared from adult, healthy, normal animals.
2:01:34
Speaker 1: Those preferably selected are sheep and hogs. Gland tissues are
2:01:39
Speaker 1: no longer given role. The thyroid gland has been transplanted
2:01:43
Speaker 1: into credence with some degree of success. Many different preparations
2:01:48
Speaker 1: have been made, among which may be mentioned glycerine extracts,
2:01:51
Speaker 1: watery extracts, the dried and powdered gland, and compressed tablets.
2:01:57
Speaker 1: Some glandular principles are inactive when given by by the mouth,
2:02:00
Speaker 1: and must be injected hypodermically to secure their physiological effects.
2:02:05
Speaker 1: The foregoing consideration of the duckless glands and their internal secretions,
2:02:10
Speaker 1: including the subject of the therapeutic employment of the active
2:02:13
Speaker 1: principles and extracts of these secretions, logically leads us to
2:02:17
Speaker 1: the consideration of the physiological functions and offices of those
2:02:20
Speaker 1: duckless glands, for they are undoubtedly such known as the
2:02:24
Speaker 1: genital glands i e. The testes and the ovaries, respectively,
2:02:29
Speaker 1: and to the consideration of the therapeutic employment of the
2:02:32
Speaker 1: principles of such in the treatment of diseased conditions. This
2:02:37
Speaker 1: new phase of the subject is intensely interesting and extremely instructive,
2:02:41
Speaker 1: and has a most direct bearing upon the general subject
2:02:44
Speaker 1: of regeneration, which is the subject matter of this book.
2:02:48
Speaker 1: In the next following section of this book, this new
2:02:50
Speaker 1: phase of the subject is considered in detail. Regenerative Power
2:02:55
Speaker 1: Vital Rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Offices
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Speaker 1: of the Genital Glands. One of the important results of
2:03:06
Speaker 1: the investigations of the duckless glands, which have occupied the
2:03:09
Speaker 1: attention of advanced physiologists of recent years, and one which
2:03:13
Speaker 1: has been combated by certain of the more orthodox physiologists
2:03:16
Speaker 1: for some reason, is the discovery that the genital glands
2:03:19
Speaker 1: are true duckless glands, manifesting internal secretions of certain substances
2:03:24
Speaker 1: apart from those primarily concerned with the primary reproductive processes.
2:03:29
Speaker 1: This discovery has afforded a scientific explanation of the facts
2:03:32
Speaker 1: which for ages have been asserted by the occultists and
2:03:35
Speaker 1: other heterodox thinkers, i e. The facts concerned with the
2:03:38
Speaker 1: processes of regeneration. In the preceding section of this book,
2:03:43
Speaker 1: we have called your attention to the fact that there
2:03:45
Speaker 1: is a disposition on the part of certain ultraconservative physiologists
2:03:48
Speaker 1: to question even the fact that the genital glands are
2:03:51
Speaker 1: true glands at all. These orthodox scientists strive to maintain
2:03:56
Speaker 1: the antiquated idea that the genital glands are not in
2:03:59
Speaker 1: any true sense glands, for they do not produce any
2:04:02
Speaker 1: chemical substances peculiar to themselves, but are simply the portions
2:04:06
Speaker 1: of the body where those cells are formed, from which
2:04:09
Speaker 1: the next generation arises. But as you have probably noticed,
2:04:13
Speaker 1: these same ultraconservative scientists quite as earnestly maintain that the
2:04:18
Speaker 1: use of the term gland in connection with the superhinal capsules,
2:04:22
Speaker 1: the pituitary body, and the pineal body is incorrect and confusing.
2:04:27
Speaker 1: This notwithstanding the fact that science has not only discovered
2:04:31
Speaker 1: the truth that these ductless glands undoubtedly do manifest important
2:04:34
Speaker 1: internal secretions, that such secretions have been widely and successfully
2:04:39
Speaker 1: employed in therapeutic practice, and that the physiological effect of
2:04:43
Speaker 1: such secretions upon the physical processes have been definitely determined
2:04:47
Speaker 1: by experiment. Advanced modern physiology has at least tentatively advanced
2:04:52
Speaker 1: the theory that the genital glands, particularly the testes and
2:04:55
Speaker 1: the ovaries, not only produce the primary reproductive cells, but
2:04:59
Speaker 1: that they also secrete other substances of a high potency,
2:05:03
Speaker 1: which are believed to exert a strong influence not only
2:05:05
Speaker 1: upon the growth and development of the embryo after the
2:05:08
Speaker 1: ovum has been fertilized by the sperm, but also upon
2:05:11
Speaker 1: the growth and development of the body of the individual
2:05:14
Speaker 1: in whose genital glands they have been secreted. The testes
2:05:19
Speaker 1: and the ovaries are found to manifest true internal secretions
2:05:23
Speaker 1: of this kind, which secretions meet the requirements of internal secretions,
2:05:27
Speaker 1: which are stated as follows. Internal secretions are substances elaborated
2:05:31
Speaker 1: in ductless glands and discharged directly into the blood. They
2:05:36
Speaker 1: are substances secreted by animal organs or tissues which preside
2:05:40
Speaker 1: over the development, growth, reproduction, and the chemical regulation of
2:05:44
Speaker 1: the body. In section four of this book, we have
2:05:47
Speaker 1: called your attention to quotations from several authorities which express
2:05:51
Speaker 1: the belief of such thinkers and investigators that the internal
2:05:54
Speaker 1: secretions of the genital glands are discharged into the blood
2:05:57
Speaker 1: thereafter to perform certain important offat phasis in the growth, development,
2:06:02
Speaker 1: and vital processes of the individual. For instance, these authorities
2:06:07
Speaker 1: says that it goes back into the circulation ready to
2:06:10
Speaker 1: form the finest brain, nerve and muscular tissue, and the
2:06:14
Speaker 1: unexpended sexual energy is employed for the building up of
2:06:17
Speaker 1: a keener brain and more vital and enduring nerves and muscles.
2:06:21
Speaker 1: And the sexual glands are useful for the physical well
2:06:24
Speaker 1: being of the individual through the vital stimulus exercised by
2:06:28
Speaker 1: them through their peculiar secretion upon the processes of development
2:06:32
Speaker 1: and nutrition, and the seminal secretion has a wonderfully imminent
2:06:37
Speaker 1: value and if retained, is absorbed into the system and
2:06:40
Speaker 1: adds enormously to man's magnetic, mental, and spiritual force. And
2:06:45
Speaker 1: the sexual energies may be transferred to the other departments
2:06:48
Speaker 1: to which they contribute largely in the life and power
2:06:51
Speaker 1: of each and in the production of general vigor. And
2:06:54
Speaker 1: the sexual department of a continent adult seems to be
2:06:57
Speaker 1: a sort of storage battery of vitality of vas charitable
2:07:00
Speaker 1: reservoir for surplus energy. In addition to these positive statements,
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Speaker 1: the following quotations will serve to illustrate the strong and
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Speaker 1: rapidly spreading belief along these lines among thoughtful scientific investigators
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Speaker 1: and observers. Professor Kingsley says the interstitial cells carry secretions
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Speaker 1: in men which pass into the blood. They apparently cause
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Speaker 1: secondary male characteristics, such as, among other things, hair on
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Speaker 1: the face and change of voice at the close of boyhood.
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Speaker 1: They also govern most female characteristics. Professor Keith says the
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Speaker 1: interstitial gland has as much to do with the growth
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Speaker 1: in certain particulars as the pituitary gland has in general
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Speaker 1: bodily growth. All the changes we see in children after
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Speaker 1: they begin to grow, which bring to prominence racial characteristics,
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Speaker 1: depend upon the action of the interstitial gland. If the
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Speaker 1: gland is removed or remains in abeyance, the maturing of
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Speaker 1: the body is prolonged or altered. The effect upon the
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Speaker 1: physical and mental characteristics of the lower animals and of
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Speaker 1: men and women, which is produced by disease of or
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Speaker 1: the removal of the genital glands is so striking that
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Speaker 1: it is impossible to escape the conviction that these glands
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Speaker 1: internally secrete substances which are appropriated by the blood and
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Speaker 1: which directly affect the physical and mental condition of the individual.
2:08:22
Speaker 1: For instance, all are familiar with the changed mental and
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Speaker 1: physical condition of the cock transformed into a capon, of
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Speaker 1: the young stallion transformed into a gelding of the young
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Speaker 1: bull transformed into a steer of the normal human male
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Speaker 1: transformed into a eunuch, the transformation in each of these
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Speaker 1: cases being caused by the removal of the male genital glands.
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Speaker 1: The transformation is followed by marked physical and mental changes.
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Speaker 1: The body loses its male characteristics and tends to become sluggish,
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Speaker 1: heavy slow. The eyes lose their sparkle, the voice changes
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Speaker 1: its character, courage is lost, and ambition disappears. In las,
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Speaker 1: inertia and docility are manifested. There is a general heaviness
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Speaker 1: of body, mind and emotional nature. A similar mental and
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Speaker 1: physical change is manifested in female animals and in women
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Speaker 1: who have been deprived of their ovaries. It has been
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Speaker 1: noted that the seed of plants and of animals are
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Speaker 1: composed of a highly concentrated food substance, this in some
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Speaker 1: cases being also true of the outer covering surrounding the
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Speaker 1: seed proper. This is nature's provision for supplying the developing
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Speaker 1: young life form with highly concentrated food material until it
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Speaker 1: is able to draw its supply of food from outside sources.
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Speaker 1: Man instinctively recognizes the high food value of such material
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Speaker 1: when he seeks and finds an important part of his
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Speaker 1: food supply in the seed substances of plants and animals.
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Speaker 1: In nuts, fruit berries, grain, and in eggs, he finds
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Speaker 1: this valuable seed substance. This substance is supplied by the
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Speaker 1: action of the secretions of the genital glands or second
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Speaker 1: cells of animal or plant, and such office is undoubtedly
2:10:03
Speaker 1: a part of the varied functions of the sexual organism. Moreover,
2:10:08
Speaker 1: there is evidently something more in milk than the ordinary
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Speaker 1: food materials contained in it. The above and many other
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Speaker 1: discovered facts have gradually led thoughtful investigators and observers to
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Speaker 1: the conclusion that in the genital glands of animals and
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Speaker 1: men there are secreted powerful and subtle chemical elements which
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Speaker 1: are in part at least absorbed into the blood and
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Speaker 1: thence carried to all parts of the system, their serving
2:10:31
Speaker 1: to energize, invigorate, and strengthen the cells, organs, and parts
2:10:36
Speaker 1: of the body, including the brain and nervous system. Some
2:10:40
Speaker 1: have gone so far as to hazard the opinion that
2:10:43
Speaker 1: old age is chiefly due to the lessening of the
2:10:45
Speaker 1: supply of these secretions, from general hypothesis to particular theory.
2:10:50
Speaker 1: This thought has proceeded and then, as usual, the special
2:10:54
Speaker 1: theory has sought expression, manifestation, and exemplification in actual experiment.
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Speaker 1: It was the natural logical evolution of this thought which
2:11:03
Speaker 1: caused the early investigators among modern scientists to arrive at
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Speaker 1: the conclusion that if the genital glands actually do produce
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Speaker 1: these internal secretions, then if these secretions could be introduced
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Speaker 1: artificially into the system, there should result a marked, in
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Speaker 1: definite physiological change. This was accompanied by the belief that
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Speaker 1: certain abnormal physical conditions caused by a deficiency of such
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Speaker 1: secretions might be remedied by the supplying of the particular
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Speaker 1: elements contained in them. From this basic position, the experiments
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Speaker 1: of the early investigators proceeded. Brown Secord was the pioneer
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Speaker 1: in this experimental work, although he was aided by the
2:11:40
Speaker 1: earlier investigations of Berthold and Bernard. Brown Secord, an eminent
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Speaker 1: physiologist the professor of Experimental Medicine at the College de France,
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Speaker 1: in the year eighteen eighty nine, announced the startling results
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Speaker 1: of certain experiments conducted by him over a period of
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Speaker 1: several years. He started with the basic hypothesis that all
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Speaker 1: glands of the body, whether they are excratory canals, or
2:12:04
Speaker 1: not give to the blood useful principles, the absence of
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Speaker 1: which is felt when the glands are extirpated or destroyed
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Speaker 1: by disease. Upon this basis, he reasoned that from his
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Speaker 1: experiments he had demonstrated conclusively that human life and physical
2:12:19
Speaker 1: and mental vigor could be prolonged by means of the
2:12:22
Speaker 1: administering of a hypodermic injection of a fluid extract in
2:12:25
Speaker 1: which the testicles of sheep had been macerated, this extract
2:12:29
Speaker 1: being the afterward famous Brown Secret Elixir. The value of
2:12:33
Speaker 1: this discovery and the reputation of the discovery were seriously
2:12:37
Speaker 1: affected by the sensational announcements of the newspapers concerning the
2:12:41
Speaker 1: elixir of life, and by the ridicule an abuse which
2:12:44
Speaker 1: came as the result of the reaction of the disappointed
2:12:46
Speaker 1: general public, who had been lead to expect a miracle
2:12:49
Speaker 1: the boon of eternal youth and physical immortality. This unfortunate
2:12:54
Speaker 1: reaction and the resulting ridicule operated so as to bring
2:12:58
Speaker 1: disfavor upon the discovery and the experiments which had led
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Speaker 1: to them. The real merits of the theory and experiments
2:13:04
Speaker 1: were lost sight of for a long time, Later, however,
2:13:08
Speaker 1: interest in the discovery was reawakened by new experiments which
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Speaker 1: served to substantiate them, and at present Brown Secord is
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Speaker 1: regarded as a pioneer in the now important branch of
2:13:17
Speaker 1: medical theory and practice. A leading reference work says of
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Speaker 1: him and his work. Recent experiments served to substantiate the
2:13:25
Speaker 1: views and statements of Brownsecword. His famous elixir, consisting of
2:13:30
Speaker 1: an extract of Lamb's testicles, he administered to himself and
2:13:34
Speaker 1: reported marvelous stimulating and rejuvenating effects. While other observers failed
2:13:39
Speaker 1: to substantiate his somewhat extravagant assertions, it was recognized that
2:13:43
Speaker 1: there undoubtedly existed a powerful oxidizing and stimulating element in
2:13:48
Speaker 1: these organs, and physiologists were led into wider fields of investigation.
2:13:53
Speaker 1: Science has not as yet determined the exact way in
2:13:56
Speaker 1: which the internal secretions of the genital glands produced general
2:13:59
Speaker 1: fishysical and mental changes in the individual, but the following
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Speaker 1: quotations from authoritative reference works will serve to indicate the
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Speaker 1: general direction of scientific thought on the subject. It is
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Speaker 1: known that several, perhaps very many, if not all, glands
2:14:14
Speaker 1: have also the power of secreting substances to which Starling
2:14:18
Speaker 1: has given the name of hormones. These pass into the
2:14:21
Speaker 1: blood and cause other glands to secrete. Thus, an acid
2:14:26
Speaker 1: in the duodenum causes it to secrete a hormone to
2:14:28
Speaker 1: which the name of secretin is given. This passes to
2:14:32
Speaker 1: the pancreas and causes increased secretion from that gland. It
2:14:37
Speaker 1: is probable that the pancreas in turn also secretes something
2:14:41
Speaker 1: which activates a ferment in the muscles. It is evident, therefore,
2:14:45
Speaker 1: that the connection between the different glands of the body
2:14:48
Speaker 1: is a very complicated one, and that the effects of
2:14:50
Speaker 1: a drug which acts upon any one of them may
2:14:53
Speaker 1: be of a very far reaching character. It is by
2:14:56
Speaker 1: no means impossible that all glands have a double or
2:14:59
Speaker 1: even triple fundunction, and that sometimes the external may be
2:15:02
Speaker 1: even less important than the internal secretion. On this point, however,
2:15:07
Speaker 1: we have but little definite knowledge, and a great field
2:15:10
Speaker 1: is open for future research. At the same time, there
2:15:14
Speaker 1: are many indications of the importance of an internal secretion
2:15:17
Speaker 1: in popular treatment. It now seems probable that all glands
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Speaker 1: which have what may be termed an external secretion have
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Speaker 1: also an internal secretion, so that while they are pouring
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Speaker 1: out one secretion from the ducts into the intestine or
2:15:30
Speaker 1: external air. They are also pouring into the lymphatics and
2:15:34
Speaker 1: thus into the blood an internal secretion. In fact, a
2:15:38
Speaker 1: splitting appears to take place in the process of secretion,
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Speaker 1: somewhat resembling that which takes place in the formation of
2:15:44
Speaker 1: a toxin and antitoxin. Another authoritative reference work gives the
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Speaker 1: following interesting statement concerning the mutual affinity of certain secretions
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Speaker 1: for certain other glands, and of the mutual antagonism observed
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Speaker 1: to exist between others. Uperhinal glands have been shown to
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Speaker 1: be stimulated by and to work in harmony with the
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Speaker 1: thyroid and pituitary. They antagonize the pancreas, especially in the
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Speaker 1: control of sugar secretion. They inhibit the thymus and secretin
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Speaker 1: and stimulate the testic in ovary. The thyroid stimulates and
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Speaker 1: is stimulated by the reproductive glands, cooperates with the hypothesis,
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Speaker 1: stimulates the adrenals and inhibits the pancreas. Thyroid secretion in
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Speaker 1: excess stimulates the intestines. The posterior lobe of the hypothesis
2:16:32
Speaker 1: stimulates the smooth muscle of the uterus, and intestines, cooperates
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Speaker 1: with the thyroid, stimulates the mammy, and is antagonized by
2:16:40
Speaker 1: the ovary and pineal body. There is said to be
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Speaker 1: an antagonistic action between it and the pancreas. The pancreas
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Speaker 1: controls and is controlled by the adrenals and is assisted
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Speaker 1: by the parathyroids. It is stimulated by the secretion formed
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Speaker 1: in the duadeno mucosa, and is apparently inhibited by the
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Speaker 1: thyroid and the hypothesis. The spleen is believed to have
2:17:02
Speaker 1: a stimulating influence upon the stomach and digestion generally, and
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Speaker 1: to furnish a stimulant to the muscles of the intestines.
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Speaker 1: When to these actions and cross actions are added those
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Speaker 1: of the reproductive glands, the pineal body, the thymus, parathyroids, mammy,
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Speaker 1: and liver, it will be appreciated that the subject of
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Speaker 1: the internal secretions is one of no little delicacy. One
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Speaker 1: of the most significant hints along these lines so far
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Speaker 1: offered by science is that in which is pointed out
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Speaker 1: the close affinity existing between the genital glands and the
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Speaker 1: thyroid glands. Again, in this connection may be pointed out
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Speaker 1: the close affinity between the brain and the genital organism
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Speaker 1: on the one hand, and the close affinity existing between
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Speaker 1: the brain and the thyroid on the other hand. Here
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Speaker 1: we seem to have a triangle of sympathetic action or
2:17:52
Speaker 1: affinity of process, the three respective sides being represented by
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Speaker 1: one the brain, two the thyroid, and free the genitals, respectively.
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Speaker 1: We need not dwell here upon the close affinity between
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Speaker 1: brain and genital glands, or upon their action and reaction.
2:18:10
Speaker 1: This is too well known to require extended discussion. You
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Speaker 1: know that excessive mental work will weaken the genital powers,
2:18:17
Speaker 1: and that excessive sexual activity will weaken the brain action.
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Speaker 1: These are matters of common knowledge in general experience, needing
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Speaker 1: no elaboration or argument. As for the other phases of
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Speaker 1: the triangular affinity, we may refer in the first place
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Speaker 1: to the well established relation between the thyroid and the
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Speaker 1: genital organism, and in the second place to the result
2:18:39
Speaker 1: of deficiency in the thyroid secretions in the direction of
2:18:42
Speaker 1: producing impaired brain action and even idiocy. Treatment of mental
2:18:46
Speaker 1: weakness by means of thyroid extract has proved quite successful.
2:18:51
Speaker 1: There is here seen to be a close relation of brain, thyroid,
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Speaker 1: and genital glands. An authoritative reference work says, under the
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Speaker 1: influences of thyroid gland, these symptoms those of mixedema disappear
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Speaker 1: and the patient is frequently restored to a normal condition.
2:19:08
Speaker 1: When the thyroid gland is absent in children, not only
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Speaker 1: is the expression of the face dull and heavy as
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Speaker 1: in the adult, but the growth both of body mind
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Speaker 1: is arrested and the child remains a stunted idiot. The
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Speaker 1: effect of the administering of thyroid gland in such cases
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Speaker 1: is marvelous, the child growing in body and becoming healthy
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Speaker 1: and intelligent. In the case of the thyroid, the function
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Speaker 1: of the gland appears to be to prepare a secretion
2:19:34
Speaker 1: which is poured out into the blood and alters tissue changes.
2:19:38
Speaker 1: Whatever may be the true and final explanation, however, it
2:19:42
Speaker 1: is a fact proved by many experiments that extracts prepared
2:19:45
Speaker 1: from the secretions of the genital organs frequently produce marvelous
2:19:48
Speaker 1: physiological and psychological changes in the organism into which they
2:19:52
Speaker 1: are injected or otherwise administered. Since the time of Brown Secord,
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Speaker 1: there have been many earnest investigators and experimenters along these lines.
2:20:01
Speaker 1: Publicity being avoided, however, for obvious reasons. Since the unfortunate
2:20:05
Speaker 1: Brown Secret experience, there have been many cases reported in
2:20:10
Speaker 1: medical journals of the reinvigorating effect of administered extracts of
2:20:13
Speaker 1: testes or of OVA. A reference work conservatively states of
2:20:18
Speaker 1: the reproductive glands or chidic testicular extract, while not enjoying
2:20:23
Speaker 1: much favor, has been shown to promote oxidation in the
2:20:26
Speaker 1: body and has been given with varying results in hysteria, neurasthenia,
2:20:31
Speaker 1: locomotive ataxia, epilepsy, and insanity. Ovarian extract is similar in
2:20:37
Speaker 1: its action, though less powerful. An intensified effect is obtained
2:20:42
Speaker 1: from extract of the corpus lutium. These substances have been
2:20:46
Speaker 1: used in chlorosis, in the nervous disturbances following oepherrectomy, and
2:20:50
Speaker 1: during the menopause. Great caution is advised in their use. However,
2:20:56
Speaker 1: the most striking proofs of the effects produced upon the
2:20:59
Speaker 1: general physical and mental being of the individual by the
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Speaker 1: action of the internal secretions of the genital glands are
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Speaker 1: those which have been furnished during the past few years
2:21:07
Speaker 1: by the surgical experimenters along the lines of gland transplantation
2:21:11
Speaker 1: in animals and in human beings. The records of this
2:21:15
Speaker 1: phase of modern advanced surgery read like fairy tales, and
2:21:19
Speaker 1: the leading practitioners in this branch of therapeutics run a
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Speaker 1: great danger of suffering, as did Brown secret by reason
2:21:25
Speaker 1: of sensational newspaper reports and the subsequent reaction of a
2:21:29
Speaker 1: disappointed general public. The public is being led to expect
2:21:33
Speaker 1: miracles and is likely to become indignant when it is
2:21:36
Speaker 1: told that the whole subject is still merely in the
2:21:38
Speaker 1: experimental stage, and that nature's rigid laws still are operative.
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Speaker 1: Regenerative Power, Vital Rejuvenation by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Gland Transplantation. We shall now ask you to consider the
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Speaker 1: plane actual facts of genital gland transplantation, as reported in
2:21:59
Speaker 1: series scientific works, and which are now receiving extended notice
2:22:03
Speaker 1: on the part of the scientific reviews and similar publications.
2:22:07
Speaker 1: Ignoring the fantastic reports which have already been begun by
2:22:11
Speaker 1: certain more or less sensational newspapers, the facts of the
2:22:14
Speaker 1: case as they are reported by the serious and careful
2:22:17
Speaker 1: scientific publications are substantially as follows. Steinack, an eminent Viennese surgeon,
2:22:23
Speaker 1: startled the scientific world several years ago by announcing that
2:22:27
Speaker 1: he had succeeded in transforming male animals into females and
2:22:31
Speaker 1: vice versa. His experiments were conducted upon small animals, generally
2:22:36
Speaker 1: upon rats and guinea pigs, and consisted of the transplanting
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Speaker 1: of the genital glands from the animal of one sex
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Speaker 1: to the body of the animal of the opposite sex.
2:22:45
Speaker 1: The rats or guinea pigs were first castrated, and then
2:22:48
Speaker 1: the ovaries or testes, as the case might be, were
2:22:52
Speaker 1: transplanted or implanted. When the operation was successful, the animals
2:22:57
Speaker 1: subsequently lost its original secondary section characteristics and assumed those
2:23:01
Speaker 1: corresponding to the sex character of the implanted gland. Thus,
2:23:06
Speaker 1: the males became females and the females became males so
2:23:10
Speaker 1: far as their secondary sex characteristics were concerned. When the
2:23:13
Speaker 1: operations were failures, the animals became neuters, manifesting no special
2:23:18
Speaker 1: secondary sex characteristics. Steinach, as the result of these experiments,
2:23:24
Speaker 1: announced his theory that the differences in secondary sex characteristics
2:23:27
Speaker 1: between male and female arise not from the anatomical character
2:23:31
Speaker 1: of the sex organs, but rather from the secretions of
2:23:34
Speaker 1: certain genital cells. These cells called lidig cells or Lutian cells,
2:23:40
Speaker 1: were found to manifest a secretion which determines the secondary
2:23:43
Speaker 1: sexual characteristics of the animal. These cells, said Steinach, are
2:23:49
Speaker 1: really glands. These secretions of the transplanted glands developed feminine
2:23:54
Speaker 1: physical form and mental and emotional characteristics in a female animal,
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Speaker 1: and masculine physical form and mental and emotional characteristics in
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Speaker 1: the female animal. But this important, as it was in itself,
2:24:07
Speaker 1: was but the beginning of steinach As startling discoveries. He
2:24:11
Speaker 1: also found that upon the state and activity of these
2:24:13
Speaker 1: sexual glands depended largely the health, vigor and general vitality
2:24:18
Speaker 1: of the individual animal. His series of experiments proved this
2:24:22
Speaker 1: beyond question. Steinach found that individual animals were often much
2:24:27
Speaker 1: younger than their age would indicate, or much older. Investigation
2:24:31
Speaker 1: revealed a direct connection between this youthfulness or oldness, and
2:24:35
Speaker 1: the state and condition of these particular glands. This was
2:24:39
Speaker 1: found true concerning both males and females. Steinach then came
2:24:43
Speaker 1: to the conclusion that it might be possible to give
2:24:46
Speaker 1: new youth to an old animal by supplying him with
2:24:48
Speaker 1: new genital glands. So he began to experiment upon old
2:24:53
Speaker 1: rats for this purpose. The aged male rat is marked
2:24:56
Speaker 1: by a coarse bristly coat, falling out of the hair,
2:25:00
Speaker 1: sinking of the head, excessive curvature of the back, loss
2:25:03
Speaker 1: of weight, weakness of muscle, and similar signs of sinility.
2:25:07
Speaker 1: His pugnacity disappears, his eyes blink, his face assumes a
2:25:11
Speaker 1: stupid expression, and he apparently loses all interest in life.
2:25:16
Speaker 1: By means of renk and rays ligatures of the genital glands,
2:25:19
Speaker 1: and by the grafting of the genital glands of young
2:25:21
Speaker 1: rats upon old ones, Steinach obtained the almost miraculous result
2:25:25
Speaker 1: of transforming their advanced sinility into youthful vigor and energy.
2:25:30
Speaker 1: The once old rats became young in every way. They
2:25:34
Speaker 1: assumed a youthful contour and form, and manifested youthful physical
2:25:38
Speaker 1: and mental, as well as emotional characteristics. The experiments have
2:25:43
Speaker 1: now proceeded so far that the old rats made young
2:25:46
Speaker 1: again growing old by the passage of time, have been
2:25:49
Speaker 1: made young for the second time, and with the same
2:25:52
Speaker 1: remarkable results. How long this process of repeated renewal of
2:25:56
Speaker 1: youth may be continued remains for time to decide. The
2:26:00
Speaker 1: experiments are too recent to allow of this question being decided.
2:26:04
Speaker 1: A general and popular account of the Steinach experiments appeared
2:26:08
Speaker 1: in the Literary Digest published November twentieth, nineteen twenty, from
2:26:12
Speaker 1: which the following is cold. A man named Steinach in
2:26:17
Speaker 1: Vienna has been experimenting for ten years with rats. Full
2:26:21
Speaker 1: accounts of his work were published last summer in the
2:26:24
Speaker 1: Great Biological Journal founded by Rue, and these were summarized
2:26:28
Speaker 1: and discussed by the London Athenaeum, which is now the
2:26:30
Speaker 1: most interesting of all English weeklies. It is from the
2:26:34
Speaker 1: Athenaeum's account that I am taking these facts. Steinach has
2:26:39
Speaker 1: been studying the interstitial cells that fill in the spaces
2:26:42
Speaker 1: between the tubules of the testes in males and between
2:26:45
Speaker 1: the follicles of the ovaries in females. His reason for
2:26:49
Speaker 1: choosing these cells for his experiments is that they are
2:26:51
Speaker 1: a wellspring of life. Furthermore, since all our vital functions
2:26:56
Speaker 1: are interrelated, to make these cells active gives the whole
2:26:59
Speaker 1: organism new life and strength. This is not the only
2:27:03
Speaker 1: way of stimulating the organism, but it seems the most powerful.
2:27:07
Speaker 1: An old rat is like a senile old man. He
2:27:10
Speaker 1: is bald and emaciated. His eyes are clouded, his breathing
2:27:14
Speaker 1: is labored. He stays in one place with bent back
2:27:18
Speaker 1: and has small interest in anything. If you cut or
2:27:22
Speaker 1: ligate one of his genital ducks, however, which is a
2:27:25
Speaker 1: comparatively slight operation, it has the effect of making the
2:27:28
Speaker 1: interstitial cells multiply actively. Waves of life flood his being.
2:27:34
Speaker 1: Within a few weeks he is transformed. These currents restore
2:27:38
Speaker 1: and rebuild him skin, muscle, and mind. Both in looks
2:27:43
Speaker 1: and behavior. He is indistinguishable from other strong rats. He
2:27:47
Speaker 1: has cast off old age. Sinility begins after twenty or
2:27:51
Speaker 1: thirty months in a rat, he is then about through.
2:27:56
Speaker 1: But when an operation is performed on a senile rat,
2:27:58
Speaker 1: he gets from six to eight month's new life. In
2:28:02
Speaker 1: other words, the addition to his normal span is twenty
2:28:05
Speaker 1: to thirty percent. The rat lives it vigorously, eagerly, back
2:28:09
Speaker 1: to his prime. When sinility again comes upon him, it
2:28:13
Speaker 1: is in a modified form. His organism as a whole
2:28:17
Speaker 1: is in better shape. It is his mind now that
2:28:20
Speaker 1: tires as Steinach has already cut or legated one or
2:28:25
Speaker 1: both of his genital ducts. That method of stimulating his
2:28:28
Speaker 1: cells cannot, of course be repeated, But another operation is ready.
2:28:34
Speaker 1: Some unfortunate young male is deprived of his testes by Steinach,
2:28:38
Speaker 1: and these are implanted forthwith. In this hoary old rat.
2:28:42
Speaker 1: A second spell of active life follows, not so long
2:28:45
Speaker 1: as the first. It ends in acute psychic sinility. The
2:28:50
Speaker 1: rat goes all to pieces. It is as if the brain,
2:28:54
Speaker 1: twice restimulated to emotion, curiosity, keenness, had approached the very
2:28:59
Speaker 1: limit of its running and was completely exhausted. Steinach has
2:29:03
Speaker 1: not as yet tried whether a third rejuvenation is possible.
2:29:07
Speaker 1: That remains to be seen. He lives in Vienna, and
2:29:11
Speaker 1: everything there has come to a stop. He has no assistance,
2:29:15
Speaker 1: no funds with which to conduct further experiments. May happier
2:29:20
Speaker 1: lands or cities carry the work on, he writes at
2:29:23
Speaker 1: the end, Steinach has naturally found it more difficult to
2:29:27
Speaker 1: give new youth to females. But here too he has
2:29:31
Speaker 1: in a measure succeeded. X ray treatment and ovarian transplantation
2:29:36
Speaker 1: are the methods employed. As to human experiments. There is
2:29:40
Speaker 1: a colleague of Steinach, as named Lichtenstern, who has operated
2:29:44
Speaker 1: on numerous men and women with apparent success. There has
2:29:47
Speaker 1: not been time yet to measure how long their new
2:29:50
Speaker 1: lease of life is to be, but they have regained
2:29:52
Speaker 1: the joy of life, they had lost strength and powers
2:29:55
Speaker 1: of work. Still, all this needs confirming in current opinion.
2:30:01
Speaker 1: For January nineteen twenty one, there appeared a general mention
2:30:05
Speaker 1: of the work of Steinach based upon an article in
2:30:08
Speaker 1: the Illustrated Siding written by doctor Eric Epstein, who apparently
2:30:12
Speaker 1: confirms the reports of the success of the Steinach experiments.
2:30:16
Speaker 1: The article in question contains the following interesting statements. These
2:30:21
Speaker 1: cells are really glands. Whether an individual be in a
2:30:25
Speaker 1: state of vigor or debility depends upon the state of
2:30:28
Speaker 1: these glands. Sometimes we see a person advanced in years
2:30:32
Speaker 1: who has more strength and more vitality than one of
2:30:35
Speaker 1: half his age. The difference is due to the state
2:30:38
Speaker 1: of the glands to which Steinach thus directs attention. Steinach
2:30:42
Speaker 1: asked himself, if it were possible, through a special treatment
2:30:45
Speaker 1: of these glands to renew the vigor of youth in
2:30:48
Speaker 1: the aged or in the debilitated. The thing called youth
2:30:52
Speaker 1: may be the effect of the freshness of these glands.
2:30:55
Speaker 1: A little over two years ago, Steinach encouraged two of
2:30:58
Speaker 1: his pupils to undertake the surgery of rejuvenation upon human objects.
2:31:03
Speaker 1: The results were, in many instances no less remarkable than
2:31:06
Speaker 1: those obtained with rats. There was a renewal of physical vigor,
2:31:11
Speaker 1: a diminution of the trembling of the hands of finer
2:31:13
Speaker 1: bearing more alertness. Mentally, it was observed that the rates
2:31:18
Speaker 1: thus operated on had their lives prolonged considerably beyond the
2:31:21
Speaker 1: normal longevity for their species. How long these effects may
2:31:25
Speaker 1: endure in the case of human beings is yet to
2:31:28
Speaker 1: be determined, because this form of surgery is of too
2:31:31
Speaker 1: recent origin to draw sweeping inferences. Certain it is that
2:31:35
Speaker 1: the gland surgery practiced upon the Ratitain's results no less
2:31:38
Speaker 1: striking when applied to aged men and aged women. Repeated
2:31:42
Speaker 1: experiments seem to confirm the theory of Steinach that sex
2:31:46
Speaker 1: characteristics do not reside where they have hitherto been assumed
2:31:49
Speaker 1: to reside, but in the glands, which give forth a
2:31:51
Speaker 1: secretion known by the name of Beaux, after the brilliant
2:31:54
Speaker 1: physiologist whose theories first gave Steinack his clue. While Steinacker
2:32:00
Speaker 1: can and his students have been conducting experiments along the
2:32:02
Speaker 1: lines above indicated, there have been others in Europe and
2:32:05
Speaker 1: America who have been making similar experiments, and who have
2:32:08
Speaker 1: evolved from the original experiments upon the lower animals to
2:32:12
Speaker 1: such an extent that they are now performing similar operations
2:32:15
Speaker 1: upon human individuals, with at least in many cases, quite
2:32:19
Speaker 1: remarkable results. So far as the reports indicate, we shall
2:32:24
Speaker 1: now ask you to consider in brief outline the nature
2:32:26
Speaker 1: and results of such experiments in lines of treatment, for
2:32:30
Speaker 1: apart from their own general interest and importance, these have
2:32:33
Speaker 1: a direct bearing upon the subject of regeneration by methods
2:32:37
Speaker 1: entirely different from their own psychological methods not surgical operations.
2:32:43
Speaker 1: The physiological principle, however, is the same in both forms
2:32:47
Speaker 1: of treatment or procedure. It is somewhat difficult to obtain
2:32:51
Speaker 1: definite details concerning the experiments now being conducted by a
2:32:54
Speaker 1: number of surgeons in Europe and the United States in
2:32:57
Speaker 1: the direction of the transplanting of the genital glands of
2:33:00
Speaker 1: animals into the bodies of men and women. This difficulty
2:33:04
Speaker 1: arises from several causes, among which the principle are. One,
2:33:08
Speaker 1: the observance of professional ethics in a matter of sensational
2:33:11
Speaker 1: reports partaking of the nature of advertising. Two, the fear
2:33:15
Speaker 1: of sensational newspaper reports highly seasoned and almost invariably followed
2:33:20
Speaker 1: by the reaction of the popular mind accompanied by ridicule
2:33:23
Speaker 1: and abuse, and three the reluctance of the patient concerning
2:33:27
Speaker 1: public notoriety, which is usually accompanied by ridicule, adverse comment,
2:33:31
Speaker 1: and mistaken estimates of the causes leading the patient to
2:33:35
Speaker 1: undergo such an operation. The last named cause is particularly
2:33:40
Speaker 1: effective in preventing publicity. The popular mind hearing of operations
2:33:45
Speaker 1: of this kind seems to jump to the conclusion that
2:33:48
Speaker 1: the patient has undergone the operation for the purpose of
2:33:51
Speaker 1: regaining lost sexual power or for strengthening weak sexual power,
2:33:55
Speaker 1: sexual power being construed as meaning the power to indulge
2:33:59
Speaker 1: in a sexual act with a marked degree of frequency
2:34:01
Speaker 1: and repetition. This last conception, coupled with the fact that
2:34:06
Speaker 1: goat's glands are usually employed in the transplantation. The goat,
2:34:09
Speaker 1: being commonly known as an abnormally lustful animal, causes a
2:34:13
Speaker 1: derisive and scornful comment in criticism, which the average man
2:34:17
Speaker 1: or woman dreads and shuns. The injustice of criticism of
2:34:21
Speaker 1: this kind is particularly marked in this case for the
2:34:24
Speaker 1: reason that the operation is usually undertaken not for the
2:34:27
Speaker 1: purpose of obtaining increase of the power to indulge frequently
2:34:30
Speaker 1: in the sexual act, but rather for the cure of
2:34:32
Speaker 1: general debility, nervous prostration, premature senility, and similar complaints. Moreover,
2:34:39
Speaker 1: the surgeons performing this class of operations almost invariably caution
2:34:44
Speaker 1: their patients against subsequent excessive sexual indulgence and preach most
2:34:48
Speaker 1: vigorously the doctrine of the conservation of the life forces
2:34:51
Speaker 1: imminent in the sexual gland secretions. Their instructions to the
2:34:56
Speaker 1: patient and the treatment itself are based upon the principle
2:34:59
Speaker 1: that the vital the fluids generated in the male and
2:35:01
Speaker 1: female genital glands, the testes and the ovaries, which are
2:35:05
Speaker 1: not expended in the reproductive processes, are taken up by
2:35:08
Speaker 1: the blood and are then absorbed by the various tissues
2:35:11
Speaker 1: of the body, strength, health, vigor and improved functioning power,
2:35:15
Speaker 1: thus being imparted to them. Indeed, in many cases, the
2:35:19
Speaker 1: surgeons have employed certain methods well known to physicians to
2:35:23
Speaker 1: restrain the reinvigorated man from sexual indulgence for at least
2:35:26
Speaker 1: a year following the operation, in order that he may
2:35:29
Speaker 1: conserve and receive the benefit of the reabsorbed internal secretions
2:35:33
Speaker 1: of the genital glands which had been stimulated into renewed
2:35:36
Speaker 1: activity by the operation. These surgeons vary this practice only
2:35:40
Speaker 1: in exceptional cases in which offspring are desired by the
2:35:43
Speaker 1: reinvigorated patient. It is generally held by the surgeons practicing
2:35:48
Speaker 1: this method that over indulgence in the sexual act following
2:35:52
Speaker 1: the reinvigoration caused by the implantation of the goat's glands
2:35:55
Speaker 1: will defeat and nullify the benefits which normally arise from
2:35:58
Speaker 1: the increased stimulate conservation and regeneration is the slogan of
2:36:04
Speaker 1: these practitioners. The transplanting operation, however, is reported as having
2:36:09
Speaker 1: been quite successful in the cure of sterility of both
2:36:12
Speaker 1: man and woman. This, of course, means nothing more than
2:36:16
Speaker 1: increased generative power, and not regenerative power in general. More important, therefore,
2:36:23
Speaker 1: are the numerous reported cases of marked cures effected by
2:36:26
Speaker 1: the transplantation of the genital glands in cases of nervous prostration,
2:36:30
Speaker 1: general debility, feeble, mentality, insanity, dementia, precox locomotor ataxia, mental depression, melancholia, prostatitis,
2:36:40
Speaker 1: hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, failing eyesight, vertigo,
2:36:44
Speaker 1: defective hearing and deafness, chronic constipation, chronic skin diseases, exema, psoriasis, sinility,
2:36:52
Speaker 1: et cetera, and of general breakdown. It is claimed that
2:36:58
Speaker 1: in many cases the patients undergoing the transplantation operation become
2:37:02
Speaker 1: rejuvenated in physical appearance, their eyes becoming brighter, their skin
2:37:06
Speaker 1: clearer and softer, and their carriage and walk becoming like
2:37:09
Speaker 1: those of much younger persons. Hardened arteries are reported to
2:37:13
Speaker 1: have been transformed into normal condition and functioning, and high
2:37:17
Speaker 1: blood pressure to have disappeared. In some cases, women who
2:37:21
Speaker 1: had passed the menopause stage of life have had a
2:37:23
Speaker 1: return of the menstrual flow. In short, these men and
2:37:27
Speaker 1: women seem to have responded to the treatment, just as
2:37:30
Speaker 1: did Steinacker's rats and guinea pigs. They have taken on
2:37:33
Speaker 1: a new lease of life. Of course, it is too
2:37:36
Speaker 1: early to determine just how long this renewed youth and
2:37:39
Speaker 1: vigor will continue, or whether it may again be renewed
2:37:42
Speaker 1: when age again makes its appearance. But cases treated three
2:37:46
Speaker 1: or four years ago are said to show no sign
2:37:48
Speaker 1: of a relapse or of a loss of their renewed vitality.
2:37:52
Speaker 1: Some have estimated the probable continuance of the effect of
2:37:55
Speaker 1: the transplanting at about fifteen years, and they hold that
2:37:58
Speaker 1: the experiments upon animals justify the hope of the successful
2:38:02
Speaker 1: renewal of the effect by a second operation at the
2:38:05
Speaker 1: end of that time. These advanced experimenters dream of the
2:38:08
Speaker 1: increase of man's normal life from the proverbial threescore and
2:38:12
Speaker 1: ten to at least twice that number of years, but
2:38:14
Speaker 1: this realization belongs to the future and is but tentative
2:38:18
Speaker 1: conjecture at the present time. The gland transplantation is usually
2:38:22
Speaker 1: affected by implanting the genital gland of a young male
2:38:25
Speaker 1: goat into the body of the man and the genital
2:38:28
Speaker 1: glands of a young female goat into the woman, the
2:38:31
Speaker 1: transplanting being performed within a few minutes after the removal
2:38:34
Speaker 1: of the glands from the living goats. Sometimes the whole
2:38:38
Speaker 1: gland is implanted again. Only a portion women are reported
2:38:42
Speaker 1: as responding to the treatment even more rapidly and more
2:38:45
Speaker 1: decidedly than men, so far as is concerned the return
2:38:49
Speaker 1: of youthful physical appearance, youthful spirits, and youthful mental vigor.
2:38:54
Speaker 1: The following selected quotations from an article appearing in the
2:38:57
Speaker 1: New York American of March fourteenth, nineteen twenty will furnish
2:39:01
Speaker 1: some further interesting information concerning the details of this form
2:39:05
Speaker 1: of surgical treatment. The article in question contains an interview
2:39:10
Speaker 1: with doctor j Are Brinkley, an American surgeon who has
2:39:13
Speaker 1: performed a number of these operations during the past several years.
2:39:18
Speaker 1: Doctor Brinkley is reported as saying, where substitution of glands
2:39:22
Speaker 1: of any character is essential, they should be taken from
2:39:25
Speaker 1: the goat operated upon immediately before the human implanting, and
2:39:29
Speaker 1: be inserted at once. Glands should not be taken from
2:39:33
Speaker 1: the ape or other animals for human use. The goat
2:39:36
Speaker 1: is immune to tuberculosis. He is a clean animal, full
2:39:41
Speaker 1: of health and vitality. Apes are very subject to tuberculosis.
2:39:46
Speaker 1: One can never tell whether or not an ape is
2:39:49
Speaker 1: entirely free from disease. It is generally unlawful to substitute
2:39:54
Speaker 1: our human glands, and even though they could be readily obtained,
2:39:57
Speaker 1: they are apt to be infected with some disease. The goat,
2:40:01
Speaker 1: alone among mammals, reacts to poisons almost identically as human
2:40:05
Speaker 1: beings react, and the poison gases of the war had
2:40:08
Speaker 1: precisely the same effect upon him as upon the soldiers.
2:40:12
Speaker 1: So one thousand, five hundred goats did their bid in
2:40:15
Speaker 1: the war in an experimental way. These points in his favor,
2:40:19
Speaker 1: and other similarities to man are the reasons which led
2:40:22
Speaker 1: me to select the goat as the best possible material
2:40:25
Speaker 1: in this work. Goat glands alone seemed to be harmonious
2:40:29
Speaker 1: and sympathetic when transplanted into the human body. In other words,
2:40:34
Speaker 1: the hormones of goat and man agree. We still know
2:40:37
Speaker 1: less about the causes of hormones than the effects. On
2:40:41
Speaker 1: account of the mutual tolerance of goat and human hormones.
2:40:45
Speaker 1: The goat gland speedily attaches a blood supply in the
2:40:48
Speaker 1: human body, and cell by cell is replaced so that
2:40:51
Speaker 1: it soon functions as the original gland what had it
2:40:54
Speaker 1: been present and normal. I have named the process recreative
2:40:58
Speaker 1: gland operation, in a cord with the belief now general
2:41:01
Speaker 1: among genitists and anatomists that if the clock of time
2:41:04
Speaker 1: is ever to be turned back for humanity, it can
2:41:07
Speaker 1: be only through glandular transplantations. Glands have proved much superior
2:41:12
Speaker 1: to any animal extract or serum in this class of cases.
2:41:16
Speaker 1: Often in serums the poison elements are retained, but not
2:41:19
Speaker 1: the nutritive. We use the whole goat gland as a rule,
2:41:23
Speaker 1: because we do not know in what part of it
2:41:25
Speaker 1: the hormones hide. The attempted transplantation of kidneys have thus
2:41:30
Speaker 1: far failed because the kidney product is waste matter, not
2:41:34
Speaker 1: live cells, as in the case of the interstitial glands.
2:41:37
Speaker 1: We have directed your attention to the foregoing reports of
2:41:40
Speaker 1: the Steinach experiments and those of the operation of gland
2:41:43
Speaker 1: transplantation upon human beings, merely for the purpose of illustrating
2:41:47
Speaker 1: and proving the modern interest in the subject on the
2:41:50
Speaker 1: part of scientific investigators, and the existence of a scientific
2:41:54
Speaker 1: basis for the general principle of regeneration. These experiments undoubtedly
2:41:59
Speaker 1: are of greater importance in the field of scientific research
2:42:02
Speaker 1: along the lines of the determination of the offices of
2:42:05
Speaker 1: the ductless glands, the internal secretions the hormones, et cetera,
2:42:09
Speaker 1: as well as along those of the nature of the
2:42:11
Speaker 1: derivative offices and functions of the sexual organism. Moreover, these
2:42:16
Speaker 1: experiments seemingly indicate the opening of a new and important
2:42:20
Speaker 1: branch of surgical practice and practical therapy. But with such matters,
2:42:25
Speaker 1: important though they may be in their own field, we
2:42:28
Speaker 1: have no immediate concern in this inquiry into the principles
2:42:31
Speaker 1: of regeneration. Having employed these reports as illustrations of a
2:42:36
Speaker 1: general principle, we may now be permitted to pass beyond
2:42:39
Speaker 1: them in our general inquiry. We believe that the average
2:42:43
Speaker 1: human being is able to increase, develop, and manifest his
2:42:47
Speaker 1: regenerative power by purely psychological methods. However, these methods bring
2:42:52
Speaker 1: actively into play the purely physiological processes of the body.
2:42:56
Speaker 1: While in exceptional cases the individual may be justified in
2:43:00
Speaker 1: seeking medical or surgical methods of developing regenerative power, of
2:43:04
Speaker 1: employing glandular extracts or gland transplantation, we believe that in
2:43:08
Speaker 1: the great majority of cases, the individual may accomplish the
2:43:12
Speaker 1: desired result and obtain the hoped for effect by the
2:43:15
Speaker 1: employment of the purely psychological methods to which we have referred,
2:43:19
Speaker 1: and which we shall now proceed to consider in detail
2:43:22
Speaker 1: in this inquiry and instruction. Regenerative Power Vital Rejuvenation by
2:43:28
Speaker 1: William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. The Secret of Regeneration.
2:43:35
Speaker 1: A careful analysis of the methods employed by the ancient
2:43:38
Speaker 1: sages and their followers in the processes of regeneration, and
2:43:42
Speaker 1: an equally careful analysis of the methods employed by the
2:43:45
Speaker 1: modern scientific experimenters. Along the same general lines, reveals the
2:43:49
Speaker 1: presence of a common underlying principle of applying and directing
2:43:52
Speaker 1: the regenerative forces of the sex energy of the individual.
2:43:57
Speaker 1: This common underlying principle of application direction is found to
2:44:00
Speaker 1: consist of the awakening and arousing of the subtle elements
2:44:03
Speaker 1: of the internal secretions of the genital glands, and the
2:44:06
Speaker 1: direction of their energies into the channels of the general invigoration, stimulation,
2:44:11
Speaker 1: and vitalization of the various glands, organs, and nerve centers
2:44:15
Speaker 1: of the entire physical organism. The invigoration, stimulation and vitalization
2:44:21
Speaker 1: of the brain result in an increase of mental efficiency.
2:44:24
Speaker 1: The invigoration, stimulation and vitalization of the other physical centers
2:44:29
Speaker 1: result in an increase of physical efficiency, health, and vigor
2:44:33
Speaker 1: The careful investigator of the phenomena of regeneration, if he
2:44:37
Speaker 1: be well informed concerning the subject of the effect and
2:44:40
Speaker 1: influence of the psychological factors upon the physical factors of
2:44:44
Speaker 1: the human organism, soon discovers that the ancient teachers of
2:44:47
Speaker 1: regeneration called into activity in effect these psychological factors, which
2:44:52
Speaker 1: in turn brought into action and effect the physical factors. Likewise,
2:44:57
Speaker 1: the modern scientific experimenters, while falling into action in effect,
2:45:01
Speaker 1: the purely physical factors also have brought into action and
2:45:04
Speaker 1: effect the purely psychological factors. This joint and coordinated action
2:45:09
Speaker 1: and effect is produced by each of these different classes
2:45:12
Speaker 1: of experimenters and investigators, notwithstanding the fact that each class
2:45:17
Speaker 1: seemingly overlooks the particular factor which is not emphasized in
2:45:20
Speaker 1: its own theory. In practice, and notwithstanding the fact that
2:45:24
Speaker 1: each class attributes the obtained result to the presence and
2:45:27
Speaker 1: activity of the particular factor which is especially emphasized in
2:45:30
Speaker 1: its own theory and teaching. You will see how this
2:45:34
Speaker 1: has worked out as we now proceed to consider the
2:45:36
Speaker 1: respective theories of these different classes of investigators and experimenters.
2:45:41
Speaker 1: The ancient sages and the teachers of the esoteric schools
2:45:45
Speaker 1: believe that the sex energy is an immaterial energy abiding
2:45:48
Speaker 1: in the physical organism, just as electricity or magnetism abides
2:45:52
Speaker 1: in physical substances. They knew nothing of internal secretions or hormones,
2:45:59
Speaker 1: or of the chemical or organic substances in which the
2:46:01
Speaker 1: regenerative force of nature abides. They were right so far
2:46:05
Speaker 1: as their knowledge extended, but their knowledge of physical processes
2:46:09
Speaker 1: did not go far enough. They discovered that these subtle
2:46:13
Speaker 1: energies of the body may be called into activity and
2:46:15
Speaker 1: directed into action by means of the exercise of thought
2:46:19
Speaker 1: and will. Here again they were right concerning the main facts,
2:46:23
Speaker 1: though ignorant of the intermediate stage of the processes employed.
2:46:27
Speaker 1: Not knowing anything of the physical regenerative factors, they never
2:46:31
Speaker 1: dreamt of producing regeneration in the lower animals, and, for
2:46:34
Speaker 1: that matter, the minds of the animals, not being capable
2:46:37
Speaker 1: of being appealed to or set into operation, their methods
2:46:40
Speaker 1: would have been without effect in such cases. Their entire
2:46:44
Speaker 1: attention was fixed upon the psychological processes involved in the
2:46:48
Speaker 1: manifestation of regeneration, and these processes seemed to them to
2:46:52
Speaker 1: have no logical or natural relation to those processes which
2:46:56
Speaker 1: they recognized as being purely physical. The modern scientific investigators
2:47:01
Speaker 1: and experimenters, on the contrary, recognize only the purely physical
2:47:06
Speaker 1: factors involved in their experiments, and the results of these
2:47:09
Speaker 1: the psychological factors involved being practically ignored by them. They
2:47:14
Speaker 1: are strengthened in this mental attitude by the fact that
2:47:16
Speaker 1: the same class of results are obtained in the experiments
2:47:19
Speaker 1: upon the lower animals in which the psychological element is
2:47:23
Speaker 1: clearly absent to them, the entire process is of a
2:47:27
Speaker 1: chemical physiological character. They recognize the existence of certain subtle,
2:47:32
Speaker 1: potent chemical substances secreted by the organism, and they perceive
2:47:36
Speaker 1: the effect upon the general physical system of the stimulation
2:47:40
Speaker 1: and increase of these secretions. The chemical physiological explanation is
2:47:45
Speaker 1: sufficient to account for the results, and they see no
2:47:47
Speaker 1: need of looking for a further explanation in psychology. But
2:47:52
Speaker 1: in spite of this, the psychological factor is present and operative,
2:47:56
Speaker 1: at least to some extent, in all cases in which
2:47:59
Speaker 1: the subject of the us experiment is a human being
2:48:01
Speaker 1: having a knowledge of, or at least a suspicion of,
2:48:04
Speaker 1: the object sought to be obtained by the experiment, the
2:48:08
Speaker 1: element of suggestion enters into the equation, even though it
2:48:11
Speaker 1: be not invited, And where suggestion is present and active
2:48:15
Speaker 1: there the powers of the subconscious or unconscious mentality are
2:48:19
Speaker 1: active in the direction of producing results and effects. Just
2:48:23
Speaker 1: as in a similar way suggestion causes an increased secretion
2:48:27
Speaker 1: in many other glands of the human body, so does
2:48:30
Speaker 1: it increase the secretion of the genital glands. And just
2:48:33
Speaker 1: as the direction of the vital forces and processes is
2:48:36
Speaker 1: influenced by suggestion, so is the direction of the regenerative
2:48:39
Speaker 1: processes so influenced. In other volumes of this series of books,
2:48:44
Speaker 1: we have explained the part played by the subconscious mentality
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Speaker 1: in the human physical economy. One phase of this plane
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Speaker 1: of mentality presides over the vital and physiological processes and
2:48:55
Speaker 1: exercises the power of law and order over them. Processes
2:49:00
Speaker 1: are not purely chemical mechanical activities, but are directly under
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Speaker 1: the influence and direction of the subconscious mentality or unconscious mind,
2:49:09
Speaker 1: as some have preferred to call it. Moreover, this subconscious
2:49:13
Speaker 1: mentality or unconscious mind, which presides over the physical processes,
2:49:18
Speaker 1: is always more or less amenable to suggestion, and more
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Speaker 1: or less under the possible direction of will. The thought
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Speaker 1: and the will of the individual are capable of producing
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Speaker 1: either disease or health in his body, according to laws
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Speaker 1: and principles now well understood and recognized by science. Accordingly,
2:49:36
Speaker 1: the physiological processes involved in regeneration may be and often are,
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Speaker 1: strongly influenced by the thought and will of the individual.
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Speaker 1: The foregoing facts logically lead the careful thinker to the
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Speaker 1: conclusion that the methods of the modern scientific investigators and
2:49:52
Speaker 1: experimenters may be improved and rendered far more efficient by
2:49:55
Speaker 1: means of a definite and deliberate application of the principles
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Speaker 1: of psychotherapy to the world of regeneration. In addition to
2:50:02
Speaker 1: employment of the purely physical methods of the administration of
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Speaker 1: the gland extracts of organotherapy, or the implantation of the
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Speaker 1: genital glands by means of a surgical operation. Such a
2:50:14
Speaker 1: thinker will be apt to decide that if, in addition
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Speaker 1: to these physical methods, the patient is led, through suggestion
2:50:20
Speaker 1: or autosuggestion, or similar methods of psychotherapy, to confidently expect
2:50:25
Speaker 1: the efficient operation of the physical mechanism thus called into
2:50:28
Speaker 1: action in the definite direction and manner which he has
2:50:31
Speaker 1: been led to visualize clearly and strongly, and to employ
2:50:35
Speaker 1: his will power persistently in the same special direction, then
2:50:38
Speaker 1: the work of the physician or surgeon will be rendered
2:50:42
Speaker 1: far more effective and certain. But be this as it may,
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Speaker 1: it is not our purpose here to attempt to point
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Speaker 1: out to the physician or surgeon the methods by means
2:50:51
Speaker 1: of which his particular system of setting into operation the
2:50:54
Speaker 1: processes of regeneration may be improved and rendered more effective.
2:50:59
Speaker 1: Not only would he most naturally resent being thus advised
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Speaker 1: in such a matter by a non medical layman, and
2:51:04
Speaker 1: would probably be justified in reminding the latter of the
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Speaker 1: virtue of the old proverbs, which recite the advisability of
2:51:10
Speaker 1: minding your own business, and which solemnly commands shoemaker stick
2:51:16
Speaker 1: to your last. But also, frankly, we are not here
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Speaker 1: in the least concerned with the possible improvement of his
2:51:22
Speaker 1: methods or the extension of his hypothesis, nor are we
2:51:26
Speaker 1: undertaking a propaganda in favor of the administration of gland
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Speaker 1: extracts or of the gland implantation operation. Rather, do we
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Speaker 1: conceive the real purpose of our present consideration of the
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Speaker 1: subject to be that of indicating the psychological methods whereby
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Speaker 1: regeneration may be effected and produced, and to point out
2:51:44
Speaker 1: how these methods may be improved and more efficiently applied
2:51:47
Speaker 1: than they were by the ancient teachers and their followers.
2:51:50
Speaker 1: We believe that these ancient teachers and practitioners were essentially
2:51:54
Speaker 1: right in their general principles of application method although lacking
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Speaker 1: in a complete theory concerning the fundamental principles involved in
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Speaker 1: the process, And we believe that the fuller understanding concerning
2:52:05
Speaker 1: the chemicophysiological factors of the process, which has come to
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Speaker 1: modern thinkers by reason of the researches, investigations, and experiments
2:52:13
Speaker 1: of the scientific physiologists, will enable the modern psychotherapists to
2:52:18
Speaker 1: apply these old methods far more effectively and in a
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Speaker 1: more definite and positive form. The particulars of this improved
2:52:26
Speaker 1: method and of the general theory underlying it, will form
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Speaker 1: the subject of our instruction in the remaining pages of
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Speaker 1: the present section of this book. In the first place,
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Speaker 1: modern psychology, particularly that phase of it which is concerned
2:52:39
Speaker 1: with the consideration of the influence of mental states upon
2:52:42
Speaker 1: physiological processes, furnishes the student with a wealth of illustrative
2:52:46
Speaker 1: material exemplifying the effect of emotional states upon the secretions
2:52:50
Speaker 1: of the body, upon the ordinary secretions, and upon the
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Speaker 1: internal secretions as well. It is a matter of common
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Speaker 1: knowledge that the secretion of the gastric and inns intestinal juices
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Speaker 1: is largely augmented by the sight or even the thought
2:53:03
Speaker 1: and imaginative images of appetizing food. Actual experiments upon the
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Speaker 1: lower animals have demonstrated that these digestive juices begin to
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Speaker 1: be actively secreted by the animal when its favorite food
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Speaker 1: is brought within its sight, and elaborate and ingenious experiments
2:53:19
Speaker 1: have shown that when the mind of a human being
2:53:21
Speaker 1: is filled with thoughts and imaginative images of appetizing food,
2:53:24
Speaker 1: then the secretion of such digestive fluids is largely increased. Moreover,
2:53:30
Speaker 1: it is a matter of common experience among human beings
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Speaker 1: that suggestions concerning delicious foods make the mouth water and
2:53:37
Speaker 1: cause the appetite to manifest itself, and that suggestions concerning
2:53:41
Speaker 1: the opposite class of substances result in producing feelings of nausea.
2:53:46
Speaker 1: The mere suggestion of sucking a lemon will cause an
2:53:48
Speaker 1: increased secretion and flow of saliva. Again, the presence of
2:53:53
Speaker 1: the infant or the sound of its hungry cry will
2:53:56
Speaker 1: cause an increased secretion of milk within the mammary glands
2:53:59
Speaker 1: of the mother. It is also known that certain suggestions, thoughts,
2:54:04
Speaker 1: or emotions will tend to hasten the menstrual flow, while
2:54:07
Speaker 1: another class of emotions and suggestions will tend to retard it.
2:54:11
Speaker 1: Certain strong emotions, particularly those of fright, will cause the
2:54:15
Speaker 1: secretion of chemical substances which will produce an evacuation of
2:54:19
Speaker 1: the bowels and artificially induced diarrhea. Pleasant emotional states cause
2:54:24
Speaker 1: a flow of the digestive juices and promote the appetite,
2:54:27
Speaker 1: while unpleasant news, grief, worry in similar emotional states will
2:54:32
Speaker 1: cause one to lose all appetite for food. Again, it
2:54:36
Speaker 1: has been proved that fear, anger, and especially jealousy produce
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Speaker 1: secretions which tend to poison the system, while cheerful, hopeful,
2:54:44
Speaker 1: and inspiring mental states are seen to induce secretions which
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Speaker 1: act as a physical tonic. It is a matter of
2:54:51
Speaker 1: common experience and of scientific record that sad and depressing
2:54:55
Speaker 1: emotional states, long continued tend to bring about a state
2:54:58
Speaker 1: of ill health, lessened byvitality, and even ultimate death, these
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Speaker 1: physiological processes now being known to result directly from the
2:55:06
Speaker 1: presence in action of toxic secretions in the blood. On
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Speaker 1: the other hand, it is as well known that the
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Speaker 1: emotional states of successful love, certainty, or strong hope of
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Speaker 1: success in business or social undertakings, et cetera, will produce
2:55:20
Speaker 1: a marked improvement in the general health of the individual,
2:55:23
Speaker 1: in some cases almost working a miracle in his physical condition.
2:55:28
Speaker 1: The effect of depressing emotions in the direction of inducing
2:55:31
Speaker 1: disease and retarding cure and the effect of cheerful inspiring
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Speaker 1: emotions in the direction of maintaining or restoring health are
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Speaker 1: too well known to require extended argument to prove the
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Speaker 1: action of the emotional states upon physiological conditions. Finally, the
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Speaker 1: effect of emotional states upon the sexual organism is well
2:55:50
Speaker 1: known to physicians and recognized to at least some extent
2:55:54
Speaker 1: by the general public. That the sexual organism is aroused
2:55:58
Speaker 1: into activity and increase secretetion by thoughts, mental images, and
2:56:02
Speaker 1: feelings of an amorous character is generally recognized. Indeed, in
2:56:07
Speaker 1: the case of young persons, physicians and moralists make a
2:56:10
Speaker 1: point of the importance of the avoidance of books, pictures, plays,
2:56:14
Speaker 1: and other suggestions which tend to arouse such feelings. There is,
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Speaker 1: on all sides the conviction that it is well to
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Speaker 1: keep the mind of such things. The artificial stimulation of
2:56:26
Speaker 1: the sexual nature by erotic literature, suggestive pictures, amatory plays,
2:56:31
Speaker 1: et cetera, is an established fact that such things stimulate
2:56:36
Speaker 1: the sexual secretions is undoubted. In the second place, Modern psychology,
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Speaker 1: especially those of its phases, which are concerned with the
2:56:44
Speaker 1: effect and influence of mind or thought upon general health
2:56:48
Speaker 1: or disease, or upon their special phases or forms teaches
2:56:52
Speaker 1: positively that the character of one's thoughts, fixed ideas, beliefs,
2:56:56
Speaker 1: and above all of his confident expectation as a positive
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Speaker 1: and decided effect upon the functioning of his physical organism.
2:57:04
Speaker 1: In fact, the whole structure of mental healing, faith, cure,
2:57:08
Speaker 1: suggestive therapeutics, et cetera, rests upon the two principles of
2:57:12
Speaker 1: therapeutic psychology or psychological therapeutics, which may be stated as follows.
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Speaker 1: One the strong mental idea, thought or mental picture of
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Speaker 1: certain physical conditions, and two the confident expectation, lively hope,
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Speaker 1: firm belief, or strong expectant attention directed toward the materialization
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Speaker 1: or objectification of that idea, thought, or mental picture. We
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Speaker 1: do not deem it necessary to enter here upon an
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Speaker 1: extended argument seeking to prove the truth of mental healing
2:57:43
Speaker 1: or the effect of the mind upon the body in
2:57:45
Speaker 1: the direction of producing health or disease. We feel warranted
2:57:49
Speaker 1: in assuming that you are sufficiently familiar with the accepted
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Speaker 1: facts of the case, which are now known to most
2:57:55
Speaker 1: intelligent persons, to render needless any such extended argument or
2:57:59
Speaker 1: array of demons stated facts. Psychotherapy is now an established
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Speaker 1: and well recognized branch of medical science, and the reaction
2:58:07
Speaker 1: of body to mind is now an accepted fact of
2:58:10
Speaker 1: both modern physiology and modern psychology. But in spite of
2:58:14
Speaker 1: the general public knowledge concerning the effect of mind upon body,
2:58:18
Speaker 1: there is found a general disposition to overlook the fact that,
2:58:21
Speaker 1: although the mental states constitute the prime motive element of
2:58:24
Speaker 1: the physiological effect, yet there are present intermediate physiological processes
2:58:29
Speaker 1: and factors which are required to produce the result. Though
2:58:33
Speaker 1: the mental state of the patient sets into operation the
2:58:36
Speaker 1: recuperative and reparative processes of nature in the body of
2:58:39
Speaker 1: the individual, these processes manifest along the established and normal
2:58:43
Speaker 1: lines of physiological functioning in many, if indeed not in all,
2:58:48
Speaker 1: of the mental cures. The mind acts so as to
2:58:51
Speaker 1: set into activity the secretive functions of the various glands
2:58:55
Speaker 1: and organs, which, acting upon the other glands, organs, and
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Speaker 1: centers of the body, bring out the restoration of normal health.
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Speaker 1: The mind is the prime active agent, but it employs
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Speaker 1: the mechanism and instruments of the physiological organism, among which
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Speaker 1: the secretive processes hold a high rank. This fact is
2:59:14
Speaker 1: often overlooked by those who employ and those who are
2:59:17
Speaker 1: benefited by the powers of mental healing. All this brings
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Speaker 1: us down to the fact that, in the processes of regeneration,
2:59:24
Speaker 1: by means of which the general system is strengthened, reinvigorated,
2:59:28
Speaker 1: re energized by the forces and energies inherent in the
2:59:31
Speaker 1: internal secretions of the genital glands, there must be recognized
2:59:35
Speaker 1: the presence in action of two factors, one purely physiological,
2:59:39
Speaker 1: the other purely psychological. The physiological factor, which is the
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Speaker 1: only one recognized by the medical practitioners and surgeons treating
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Speaker 1: and operating for the purpose of inducing and producing regeneration,
2:59:52
Speaker 1: is that which is concerned with the production of the
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Speaker 1: internal secretions of the genital glands and their distribution to
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Speaker 1: and their appropriation by the blood. The psychological factor, which
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Speaker 1: was the only one recognized by the ancient sages and
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Speaker 1: by many of their modern followers, is that which is
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Speaker 1: concerned with the action of the mental states upon the
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Speaker 1: physiological functions and activities, the employment of the mind to
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Speaker 1: set into operation the forces or energies of the sex nature,
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Speaker 1: and to direct these to the general physical system, including
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Speaker 1: the brain. If you have followed us carefully in the
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Speaker 1: foregoing consideration of the subject, you will see that our
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Speaker 1: thought leads logically to the conclusion that the best and
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Speaker 1: most effective methods to be employed in the processes of
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Speaker 1: regeneration are those methods which recognize and manifest the following
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Speaker 1: two principles. One the existence of the special secretions of
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Speaker 1: the genital glands which are designed for and which operate
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Speaker 1: in the direction of the promotion, preservation, and maintenance of
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Speaker 1: the general vigor, strength, and energy of the entire body.
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Speaker 1: And two, the existence of certain powers of the mind
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Speaker 1: which are capable of calling into efficient and nat effective
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Speaker 1: activity the energies inherent in these special secretions of the
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Speaker 1: genital glands, and of directing them to such parts of
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Speaker 1: the body which may require increased strength and vitality, or
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Speaker 1: to the entire physical system as a whole. You will
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Speaker 1: also note that in this suggested method or methods, there
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Speaker 1: are combined the essential theory in facts both of the
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Speaker 1: ancient sages and teachers of regeneration and of the modern
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Speaker 1: scientific practitioners who are striving to produce the manifestation of
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Speaker 1: regenerative power by means of the administration of gland extracts
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Speaker 1: or by gland implantation, or both. The physiological facts are
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Speaker 1: admitted and are taken actively into consideration. The psychological activities
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Speaker 1: and powers are employed under the guidance and direction of
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Speaker 1: the mind, thought, and will of the individual. That the
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Speaker 1: ancient sages and their followers obtained wonderful results in regeneration
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Speaker 1: by means of the practice of their general principles of application,
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Speaker 1: i e. The employment of the powers of the mind
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Speaker 1: in the direction of arousing and distributing the regenerative power
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Speaker 1: cannot be denied. Many thousands have testified to the virtues
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Speaker 1: and efficacy of their methods for many centuries, and their
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Speaker 1: underlying principles constitute the essence of many schools of belief
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Speaker 1: and practice at the present time. But, as all students
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Speaker 1: of practical psychology must admit, the old stages lack the
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Speaker 1: clear visualization of the operation of the physiological processes which
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Speaker 1: is now possible, and thereby were unable to employ the
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Speaker 1: mental powers with the greatest efficiency. For a clear cut,
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Speaker 1: definite mental picture of the physical processes aids materially in
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Speaker 1: its materialization. This deficiency is overcome by the combination method
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Speaker 1: now suggested. Likewise, the modern scientific investigators and experimenters have
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Speaker 1: produced wonderful results by means of the practice of their
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Speaker 1: general principles of application, i e. The introduction of the
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Speaker 1: genital secretions into the system by the administration of gland
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Speaker 1: extracts or by the operation of gland implantation. But as
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Speaker 1: all students of psychotherapy must admit, they have overlooked or
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Speaker 1: else discarded, the additional element of the power of the
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Speaker 1: mind in the phases of ideation, visualization, and volition, which
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Speaker 1: would have enormously increased the efficacy of their methods. Their
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Speaker 1: introduced secretions, if stimulated by the mind and directed by
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Speaker 1: the will of the patient, would be far more effective
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Speaker 1: than under the present system, in which the psychological factors
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Speaker 1: and elements of regeneration are overlooked or ignored. In this case,
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Speaker 1: as in many others in all fields of human thought
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Speaker 1: and work, the secret is found in the reconciliation harmonizing
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Speaker 1: of the two principles which are apparently antithetically opposite to
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Speaker 1: each other and having no common ground of identity or agreement,
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Speaker 1: but which at the last are seen by the vision
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Speaker 1: or intuition to be really but the two polar extremes
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Speaker 1: of the same general truth or principle, the two sides
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Speaker 1: of the same shield. Regenerative Power Vital Rejuvenation by William
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Speaker 1: Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty ti two The practice of regeneration.
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Speaker 1: In the practice of regeneration according to the methods of
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Speaker 1: the ancient sages, modified by the discoveries of the later
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Speaker 1: investigators of the subject, and employed in the light of
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Speaker 1: the modern scientific knowledge concerning the nature of the internal
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Speaker 1: secretions of the genital glands, the following three general principles
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Speaker 1: are to be employed general principles of practice. One the
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Speaker 1: employment of the psychological powers in the direction of the
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Speaker 1: normal production of the internal secretions of the genital glands
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Speaker 1: for the purposes of physical and mental reinvigoration, recuperation, and revitalization.
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Speaker 1: Two the employment of the psychological powers in the direction
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Speaker 1: of a sane and rational temperance in the matter of
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Speaker 1: the expenditure of the sexual energies in the primary activities
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Speaker 1: of the sex nature. And three the employment of the
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Speaker 1: psychological powers in the direction of an efficient distribution of
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Speaker 1: the internal secretions and sexual energies to the general physical
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Speaker 1: and mental organism. These three several principles of the practice
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Speaker 1: of regeneration we shall now ask you to consider in detail.
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Speaker 1: One the production of regenerative power. In the lower animal kingdom,
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Speaker 1: Nature employs the subconscious or unconscious mentality of the creatures
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Speaker 1: in the production of both the generative cells and the
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Speaker 1: regenerative secretions and energies at the appropriate times and in
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Speaker 1: the normal quantities, without any interference or assistance from the
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Speaker 1: conscious mentality. But man here is elsewhere pays the price
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Speaker 1: of the evolution of his conscious mentality while also reaping
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Speaker 1: the benefits. In many different ways. Man has consciously interfered
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Speaker 1: with the normal and regular operations of his subconscious mind,
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Speaker 1: and as a result he has brought on more or
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Speaker 1: less abnormal physical conditions which are unknown among the lower animals.
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Speaker 1: For ages, he has suffered more or less by reason
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Speaker 1: of this. The higher he has mounted the latter of
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Speaker 1: conscious mentality, the more has he interfered with the natural
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Speaker 1: instinctive operations of the subconscience mentality presiding over his physical functions.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Nature has managed to overcome this difficulty to
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Speaker 1: a considerable extent by the exercise of her seemingly boundless ingenuity.
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Speaker 1: But in spite of this, Man has managed to throw
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Speaker 1: many obstacles in the path of nature. He has poured
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Speaker 1: sand into Nature's oil cups and has thrown scrap iron
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Speaker 1: into delicate parts of her intricate machinery. The study of psychotherapy, suggestion,
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Speaker 1: and the general subject of the influence of mental states
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Speaker 1: upon physical conditions will furnish countless illustrations of the above
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Speaker 1: stated general principle. But here is elsewhere a still higher
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Speaker 1: knowledge is now tending to lead man out of this
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Speaker 1: unfortunate condition, and in the end he will be all
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Speaker 1: the better for his employment of his conscious mind in
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Speaker 1: reference to his physical processes. This because he is now
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Speaker 1: learning that just as the conscious mind may interfere with
3:06:52
Speaker 1: the normal processes of the subconscious mentality presiding over the
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Speaker 1: physical functions, so it may be employed to aid and
3:06:58
Speaker 1: encourage this subconsctous mentality in its beneficent, vital activities. The
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Speaker 1: wonderful results of the various forms of mental healing afford
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Speaker 1: an illustration of this fact. And every day men are
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Speaker 1: learning that the right kind of mental states will not
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Speaker 1: only bring about a restoration of health, but will also preserve, maintain,
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Speaker 1: and promote the normal condition of health. Man, in his
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Speaker 1: original and primitive state, was like any of the higher
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Speaker 1: animals in his employment of his sexual powers. He used
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Speaker 1: these powers solely for the purpose of reproduction in response
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Speaker 1: to the instinctive urge, and was governed by the instinctive
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Speaker 1: promptings of the female of the species, as are all
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Speaker 1: the higher animals, the sexual act normally being performed only
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Speaker 1: at certain periods determined by the instincts of the female,
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Speaker 1: and being refrained from during the period of gestation and nursing.
3:07:47
Speaker 1: As man evolved in conscious mentality, he began to cultivate
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Speaker 1: deliberately his sex indulgences and to exercise his sex powers
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Speaker 1: in a manner and to an extent unknown to the
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Speaker 1: higher animals. There is no higher animal which violates the
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Speaker 1: natural instinctive sex rules as does man. Man has developed
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Speaker 1: the habit of sex indulgence in and out of season,
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Speaker 1: and in direct contradiction to the normal promptings of the
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Speaker 1: female nature. He has developed race habits which have became
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Speaker 1: second nature. He has broken down the instinct which causes
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Speaker 1: the female animal to repulse the advances of the male
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Speaker 1: at all times except those of the mating period, and
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Speaker 1: which causes the male animal to evince no interest in
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Speaker 1: the sexual activities while the female is pregnant or while
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Speaker 1: she is nursing her young. In short, man has gradually
3:08:36
Speaker 1: transformed the sexual activities from their natural manifestation of reproduction
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Speaker 1: into their abnormal manifestation of a regular, oft repeated physical
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Speaker 1: performance which affords satisfying sensations. He has deliberately taken the
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Speaker 1: sexual appetite, just as he has taken the other physical appetites,
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Speaker 1: away from the simple, natural, normal plane of manifestation. This
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Speaker 1: habit has been strength during the long history of the race,
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Speaker 1: until at the present time the natural and normal purpose
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Speaker 1: of the sexual organism has been lost. Sight of the
3:09:08
Speaker 1: latter is now regarded as designed primarily for the purposes
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Speaker 1: of pleasurable indulgence. Its energies are artificially stimulated by the
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Speaker 1: imagination and general thought on the subject, and its powers
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Speaker 1: are recklessly wasted and dissipated in over indulgence and excess. This,
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Speaker 1: of course, is equally true of the functions of eating
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Speaker 1: and drinking, for these also were designed by nature for
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Speaker 1: certain definite and simple purposes, but have now become perverted
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Speaker 1: into sense gratification, which too often is carried to almost
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Speaker 1: insane excesses. On the other hand, the mind of man
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Speaker 1: has suffered from a reaction from the above stated perversion
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Speaker 1: of the original sex nature. Just as many men have
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Speaker 1: made a god of sex indulgence and have bowed down
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Speaker 1: before it and worshiped at its shrine, so have other
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Speaker 1: men made a devil of it, and now speak and
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Speaker 1: think of it as a malignant thing, attempting demon to
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Speaker 1: be feared and hated. This reaction has resulted in a
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Speaker 1: decided perversion, namely that which has caused men to regard
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Speaker 1: sex as essentially evil and as a work of the
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Speaker 1: tempting evil spirit in man's nature. Even those indulging in
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Speaker 1: sexual excesses frequently speak of sex in the coursest, most
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Speaker 1: abusive terms and manifest an evident contempt for it, even
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Speaker 1: while making a god or a devil of it. Many
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Speaker 1: who admit the power of sex over them, and who
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Speaker 1: make a habit of excessive sexual indulgence, frankly admit that
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Speaker 1: they consider it a necessary evil and feel inclined to
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Speaker 1: apologize for its existence and its power over them. Many,
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Speaker 1: at least tacitly, seem to regard sex as akin to
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Speaker 1: a drug habit which privately indulged in excessively and often harmfully,
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Speaker 1: is to be detested, abused, and apologized for in public.
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Speaker 1: These two mental attitudes towards sex, resulting from the action
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Speaker 1: of an reaction from the perverted habits of the race,
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Speaker 1: which are so far removed from the evident intentions and
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Speaker 1: purpose of nature, have resulted in too strong but opposite
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Speaker 1: general classes of mental states concerning thoughts, ideas, and mental
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Speaker 1: pictures towards sex. On the one hand, is the conscious
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Speaker 1: mental attitude, which is reflected in the subconscious mentality, and
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Speaker 1: which results in the active stimulation of the sexual nature
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Speaker 1: for the purposes of sexual indulgence. This attitude, in its
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Speaker 1: extreme form, results in the employment of every means of
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Speaker 1: mental and emotional excitation of the sexual energies, to the
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Speaker 1: end of enabling the individual to manifest sexual activity frequently
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Speaker 1: and repeatedly. This ability being mistaken for sexual power and
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Speaker 1: has something to be sought for and encouraged. This is
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Speaker 1: clearly contrary to nature. On the other hand, there is
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Speaker 1: the mental attitude which regards sex as an evil, impure thing,
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Speaker 1: all thoughts of which are to be resisted, inhibited, and
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Speaker 1: repressed so far as is possible. In this view, sex
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Speaker 1: is regarded as a devilish device designed to trap the
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Speaker 1: unwary and to lead them to perdition. As all modern
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Speaker 1: psychologists and physiologists know. This perverted mental attitude really defeats
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Speaker 1: its own object, and in the end brings on either
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Speaker 1: more or less of sexual perversion or else occasional reactions
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Speaker 1: in which the individual falls a victim to him devilish
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Speaker 1: devices from which he is seeking to escape the reaction
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Speaker 1: carrying him to the other extreme. Careful thinkers have seen
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Speaker 1: that the escape from these two extremes of wrong views
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Speaker 1: is to be found only in that universal panacea, the
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Speaker 1: golden mean between the two extremes. In this case, the
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Speaker 1: golden mean is the mental attitude of viewing sex as
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Speaker 1: just what it is in nature's eyes and mind, i e.
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Speaker 1: A natural, normal, clean, pure, physical process of reproduction of
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Speaker 1: the species, proper and good in its right time and place,
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Speaker 1: but neither a god to be worshiped, nor yet a
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Speaker 1: devil to be feared and dreaded. If men were to
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Speaker 1: think and speak of sex just as of any other
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Speaker 1: natural function, then all the mystery would fall from it,
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Speaker 1: and also all the exaggerated worship of it on one hand,
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Speaker 1: and the exaggerated fear and dread of it on the
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Speaker 1: other hand. There is a great need of a mighty
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Speaker 1: teacher who will cast out from the temple of sex
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Speaker 1: these false, leering gods and grinning devils. The understanding of
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Speaker 1: the scientific principles of regeneration will do much toward bringing
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Speaker 1: about in the individual a sane mental balance concerning sex.
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Speaker 1: This same balance and knowledge will set into operation and
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Speaker 1: activity the natural powers of the sexual organism, whereby the
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Speaker 1: regenerative secretions are produced. When the mind clearly perceives that
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Speaker 1: the sexual organism has as one of its purposes the
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Speaker 1: secretion of certain powerful substances containing energies which will produce
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Speaker 1: mental and physical invigoration, energy and power, and that this
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Speaker 1: energy is largely dissipated by the sexual excesses of the
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Speaker 1: average individual, then will it gradually adjust itself to this
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Speaker 1: new view, and will employ its subconscious powers in that
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Speaker 1: direction rather than in the old way. The new need
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Speaker 1: being recognized, the sub conscious mentality will proceed to supply it.
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Speaker 1: The old need being seen to have been exaggerated, the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mentality will no longer oversupply it, but will limit
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Speaker 1: its supply to normal and natural proportions. A new proper,
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Speaker 1: normal and natural balance will be established, and the old abnormal,
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Speaker 1: lopsided adjustment will be replaced by the normal, well balanced equipoise. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: this new and sane mental attitude towards sex will do
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Speaker 1: away with the perverted conception of sex as an unclean,
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Speaker 1: impure element of human nature. When it is perceived that
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Speaker 1: sex is essentially purer and worthy, and that all of
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Speaker 1: evil connected with it arises from artificial, unnatural excesses and habits,
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Speaker 1: then will cease that forced repression of all thoughts concerning
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Speaker 1: the sexual nature, which repression is so often accompanied by,
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Speaker 1: or followed by, the reaction to the other extreme. Just
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Speaker 1: as the knowledge of the truth is followed by the
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Speaker 1: casting out of the false gods and hideous idols of
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Speaker 1: sex worship, so is that knowledge followed by the casting
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Speaker 1: out of the images of the devils and demons of
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Speaker 1: sex revilement. As the ancient proverbs said, when the true
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Speaker 1: gods arrive, the false gods and devils disappear. All this
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Speaker 1: brings us up to the question of the production of
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Speaker 1: regenerative power, or the means of the normal production of
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Speaker 1: the internal secretions of the genital glands, for the purpose
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Speaker 1: of physical and mental reinvigoration, recuperation, and revitalization. We might
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Speaker 1: devote many pages of detailed description of methods designed for
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Speaker 1: this important purpose. But at the end the essence of
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Speaker 1: the idea would be found to be contained in one
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Speaker 1: paragraph as follows. Fix in your mind the clear, strong,
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Speaker 1: definite idea or mental picture of the secretion of the
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Speaker 1: regenerative substances by the genital glands, and add to the
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Speaker 1: idea or picture the details of the purpose and certain
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Speaker 1: effect of such secretions upon the entire mental and physical system.
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Speaker 1: So far as possible, visualize the production of these regenerative
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Speaker 1: elements and the concentrated power of latent within them. Desire
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Speaker 1: earnestly and ardently that your organism shall secrete these substances
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Speaker 1: in sufficient amount and with sufficient power to effect the
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Speaker 1: results wished by you. Confidently expect that nature will perform
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Speaker 1: this work for you through the processes of the subconscious
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Speaker 1: mentality and the mechanism of the sexual organism, and finally,
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Speaker 1: set your will into operation with determination, persistently will that
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Speaker 1: your subconscious mentality in your physical organism shall operate along
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Speaker 1: the lines which you have clearly and strongly pictured, idealized,
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Speaker 1: and visualized, which you confidently expect to be actualized, and
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Speaker 1: which you are now willing into operation. If you do this,
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Speaker 1: nature will do the rest. Finally, do not permit yourself
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Speaker 1: to be deluded by the teachings of certain mistaken teachers
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Speaker 1: of regeneration and their followers, who hold that in order
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Speaker 1: to produce a full secretion of regenerative power, it is necessary,
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Speaker 1: or at least advisable, to direct the thought and imagination
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Speaker 1: toward amatory subjects or excited images for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: stimulating the sexual glands to additional secretion. Not only is
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Speaker 1: this unnecessary, but it is positively contrary to the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the true teachings of regeneration, and the practice of
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Speaker 1: such methods tend to produce results diametrically opposed to those
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Speaker 1: of regeneration. We warn you positively against any such teachings
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Speaker 1: and the methods based upon the same. Instead of holding
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Speaker 1: the thought of sexually exciting things, you should hold the
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Speaker 1: mind firmly and steadily upon the regenerative offices of the
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Speaker 1: sexual organism, its regenerative functions, not its generative ones. The
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Speaker 1: ideal should be that of conservation and regeneration, not of
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Speaker 1: indulgence dissipation, and the thoughts and objects leading up to them.
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Speaker 1: We expressly caution you to use wise discrimination in this matter,
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Speaker 1: and to beware of this wolf teaching disguised in the
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Speaker 1: garments of the truth. In the psychological principles and methods
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Speaker 1: outlined in the single paragraph of instruction, given a little
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Speaker 1: further back, you will find all that is required in
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Speaker 1: the way of instruction. Along these special lines. You will
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Speaker 1: find in that paragraph a complete working theory of practice,
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Speaker 1: and an efficient, practical, working method of employing that theory,
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Speaker 1: the application of which will set into activity and operation
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Speaker 1: the psychological forces concerned with the production of regenerative power.
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Speaker 1: If you will set these psychological forces into operation, then
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Speaker 1: nature will operate through the subconscious mentality which presides over
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Speaker 1: the physical organism, and will produce these secretions in sufficient
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Speaker 1: amount and strength, just as by means of similar methods
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Speaker 1: she secretes the necessary gastric and intestinal juices the bile,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. Unmarried men and women need have no fear
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Speaker 1: that the practice of these psychological methods will impair their
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Speaker 1: reproductive powers when they enter into the married state of life.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, they will be even still better fitted
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Speaker 1: for these important offices when the time for them arrives,
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Speaker 1: by reason of their previous avoidance of waste and dissipation
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Speaker 1: of their reproductive powers and the appropriate secretions. In this method,
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Speaker 1: your conscious mind is concerned merely with the furnishing of
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Speaker 1: the design, plan, mold, or pattern of that which you
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Speaker 1: wish to be materialized or actualized. Your subconscious mentality attends
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Speaker 1: to the details of the process in its own special way.
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Speaker 1: This is the same psychological principle which operates in all
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Speaker 1: cases of mental healing and in all instances of the
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Speaker 1: influence of mind over body. In it are called into action.
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Speaker 1: The three great psychological principles of idealization, visualization, and actualization
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Speaker 1: in it are manifested the great powers of definite ideals,
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Speaker 1: insistent desire, confident expectation, and persistent determination. If you will
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Speaker 1: practice this method, you will soon have actual proof of
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Speaker 1: its effective performance, for you will experience the increased energy
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Speaker 1: and power resulting from its employment two sane and rational
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Speaker 1: sexual temperance. The excessive use, or rather the abuse of
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Speaker 1: the sexual organism in the direction of sexual indulgence, is
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Speaker 1: logically followed by the depletion of the regenerative powers of
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Speaker 1: the general system, as well as by the waste which
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Speaker 1: arises by reason of the diversion to the reproductive organism
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Speaker 1: of the vital energy which Nature intends also to be
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Speaker 1: distributed to the other organs, glands, and centers of the system.
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Speaker 1: The individual who wastes or dissipates his or her sexual
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Speaker 1: energies inevitably draws upon Nature's reserved forces intended for other purposes,
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Speaker 1: and at the same time diverts from its legitimate channels
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Speaker 1: the regenerative energies which Nature has provided for the invigoration, strengthening,
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Speaker 1: and vitalization of the whole system. Wisdom plainly dictates a
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Speaker 1: change in this respect. One who gives serious thought to
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Speaker 1: the subject cannot well escape becoming impressed with the need
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Speaker 1: of a hearty temperance in the employment of these important
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Speaker 1: energies and secreted substances. The theory is plain, but the
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Speaker 1: actual practice and application is soon perceived to be fraught
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Speaker 1: with difficulties. Many of the teachers along the lines of
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Speaker 1: regeneration have failed by reason of their two radical and
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Speaker 1: two extreme teachings concerning the methods to be employed, and
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Speaker 1: the two rigid and inelastic rules laid down by them
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Speaker 1: for the guidance of their followers. Such teachers have overlooked,
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Speaker 1: or else have deliberately ignored the fact that many generations
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Speaker 1: of excessive use or abuse of the sexual powers have
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Speaker 1: resulted in the establishment of race habits which have become
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Speaker 1: firmly rooted in the race consciousness, and which are most
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Speaker 1: difficult to overcome. Attempts to observe faithfully such rules have
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Speaker 1: often been followed by a natural reaction in which the
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Speaker 1: whole idea has been rejected as impractical, impracticable, and contrary
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Speaker 1: to human nature. Strictly speaking, it may be stated that
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Speaker 1: the only legitimate purpose of the sexual relations between the
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Speaker 1: sexes is that of reproduction, and that accordingly all other
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Speaker 1: employment of them is illegitimate and abnormal. But in view
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Speaker 1: of the acquired habits of the race, which are manifested
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Speaker 1: in the marital relations of most individuals ru attempts to
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Speaker 1: confine the sexual relation to such comparatively infrequent exercise of
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Speaker 1: the sexual powers have proved most difficult, and efforts in
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Speaker 1: this direction have met with failure. Here again, the golden
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Speaker 1: mean must be sought. Fanaticism, extreme methods and rules, and
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Speaker 1: similar courses are therefore to be avoided, and practical wisdom
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Speaker 1: must be established and maintained. For this reason, we shall
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Speaker 1: not attempt to lay down positive set cut and dried
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Speaker 1: in flexible rules governing this matter. Instead, we shall content
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Speaker 1: ourselves with urging our students to endeavor to use moderation, temperance,
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Speaker 1: and normal self restraint in their practice of regeneration. We
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Speaker 1: feel well satisfied in adopting this idea of the golden
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Speaker 1: mean by reason of our knowledge that the individual who
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Speaker 1: acquires a clear and full knowledge of the principles of
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Speaker 1: regeneration has set forth in this book will instinctively, subconsciously,
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Speaker 1: and almost automatically begin gradually to exercise such mind moation, temperance,
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Speaker 1: and rational restraint. In the case without the severe struggle
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Speaker 1: which usually follows the attempt to employ the extreme methods
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Speaker 1: and rules laid down by the radical, extreme and sometimes
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Speaker 1: fanatical teaching. Along these lines, knowledge usually operates to modify
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Speaker 1: even the subconscious actions which are opposed to the known truth.
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Speaker 1: There is a great fact embodied in the statement that
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Speaker 1: the truth shall set you free. The knowledge of the
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Speaker 1: truths concerning regeneration will gradually filter down from the conscious
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Speaker 1: to the subconscious mentality, and the latter will proceed to modify,
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Speaker 1: tone down, and bring to normal condition the desires which
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Speaker 1: lead to such action. The desire and will to exercise
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Speaker 1: the powers of regeneration will tend to modify, neutralize, and
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Speaker 1: inhibit the will and desire to abuse the sexual powers
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Speaker 1: and to dissipate their energies. An old story of George Fox,
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Speaker 1: the founder of the Society of Friends, commonly known as
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Speaker 1: the Quakers, will illustrate this psychological principle. The story relates
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Speaker 1: that an ardent and extreme Quaker complained to Fox that
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Speaker 1: William Penn, recently converted to Quakerism, persisted in wearing his sword.
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Speaker 1: The wearing of weapons being opposed to the teachings and
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Speaker 1: rules of the Friends. The complaining Quaker wished Fox to
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Speaker 1: command Penn to discard his sword, or else to expel
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Speaker 1: him from the society. Fox, however, being well versed in
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Speaker 1: human psychology, said nay let friend, William were his sword,
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Speaker 1: so long as he feels a desire to do so,
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Speaker 1: When the time comes for him to discard it, he
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Speaker 1: will no longer wish to wear it. Time proved the
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Speaker 1: wisdom of Fox, for Penn eventually found within himself such
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Speaker 1: a distaste for the wearing of a sword, that, without commands,
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Speaker 1: he discarded it. Had he been commanded to drop the
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Speaker 1: sword before his inner consciousness dictated it, he would probably
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Speaker 1: have rebelled and withdrawn from the society. And so in
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Speaker 1: the case before us, it usually will be found that
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Speaker 1: the knowledge of the truth seeping into the inn in
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Speaker 1: their consciousness and filtering down to the subconscious mentality, will
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Speaker 1: cause the disappearance of the acquired abnormal race habits, and
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Speaker 1: will bring the desire and will of the individual back
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Speaker 1: to the normal standard. In the same way, the same
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Speaker 1: causes will operate to remove the abnormal dread, fear, and
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Speaker 1: hatred of sex from the minds of those who have
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Speaker 1: entertained these feelings, and will thus remove the peril of
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Speaker 1: the dangerous reactions from such mental attitude which we have noted,
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Speaker 1: and will bring the individual back to the normal standard
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Speaker 1: of a sane mental attitude towards sex, with its inevitable
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Speaker 1: accompaniment of temperance, moderation, and desirable restraint and control. In
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Speaker 1: this connection, we would add that the habit and practice
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Speaker 1: of directing the sexual energy to the general system in
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Speaker 1: the method of regeneration will strongly tend to inhibit and
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Speaker 1: neutralize the inordinate sexual cravings and urges toward indulgence which
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Speaker 1: have rendered the practice of sexual temperance and moderation so
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Speaker 1: difficult for so many persons. The diffusion of the sexual
3:25:58
Speaker 1: energies in this general direction will be found to relieve
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Speaker 1: the localized pressure toward manifestation in sexual indulgence, and will
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Speaker 1: serve to free the individual from the tyrant desires which
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Speaker 1: in the past have led him astray from the path
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Speaker 1: of wisdom and often from the path of duty and morality.
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Speaker 1: The transmutation of the sexual energy into mental and physical
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Speaker 1: energy works a tremendous change in the nature and character
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Speaker 1: of the struggle with the old acquired race habits. This
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Speaker 1: fact is attested to by thousands who have undergone this experience.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, the ability to employ the sexual
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Speaker 1: energy for the purposes of procreation is not affected or impaired.
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Speaker 1: Here is the general rule. Strive for the golden mean,
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Speaker 1: exercise moderation, temperance, and self control. Strive to transmute the
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Speaker 1: impulse into creative energy along the lines of mental and
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Speaker 1: physical creative work, and remember always that in the end
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Speaker 1: the truth will set you free. The subject of the
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Speaker 1: practice of regeneration will be considered further in the following
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Speaker 1: section of this Bookative Power, Vital Rejuvenation by William Walker
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Speaker 1: Atkinson nineteen twenty two Transmutation. In the preceding section of
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Speaker 1: this book, you have considered the two phases of the
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Speaker 1: practice of regeneration, known respectively as the production of regenerative
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Speaker 1: power and the exercise of sane and rational temperance in
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Speaker 1: the use of the sexual energies in their primary offices.
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Speaker 1: In the present section, we shall ask you to consider
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Speaker 1: the third phase of the practice of regeneration, namely that
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Speaker 1: phase known as the direction of the transmuted sexual energy.
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Speaker 1: Three the direction of the transmuted sexual energy. We have
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Speaker 1: now reached that point in our inquiry and instruction concerned
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Speaker 1: with the important subject of the employment of the psychological
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Speaker 1: powers in the direction of an efficient distribution of the
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Speaker 1: internal secretions and sexual energies to the general physical and
3:27:51
Speaker 1: mental organism. To this final end, all the teaching methods
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Speaker 1: of regeneration tend here. As in the case of the
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Speaker 1: normal production of these secretions and energies, we find that
3:28:03
Speaker 1: the essence of the methods to be employed may be
3:28:05
Speaker 1: condensed into a few sentences. The details of the practice
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Speaker 1: must be left to the exercise of the judgment and
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Speaker 1: common sense of the individual. But there is but little,
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Speaker 1: if any, danger of his going astray in the matter
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Speaker 1: once he has fixed in his mind the fundamental, basic
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Speaker 1: essential principles. These fundamental and basic essential principles in the
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Speaker 1: present case may be stated as follows. Form in your
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Speaker 1: mind the clear, definite, positive idea or mental picture of
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Speaker 1: the presence within the genital glands of an abundant supply
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Speaker 1: of the concentrated potent regenerative power. Employ your ideative and
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Speaker 1: imagining faculties to create a positive, clear and strong idea
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Speaker 1: or mental image of the presence within you of such
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Speaker 1: potent energies inherent in the internal secretions of the genital glands.
3:28:52
Speaker 1: At the same time, cultivate the firm conviction and belief
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Speaker 1: that these potent energies are capable of regenerating, reinvigorating, in
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Speaker 1: strengthening the entire physical and mental organism, or any part
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Speaker 1: of it to which they may be specially directed by you.
3:29:06
Speaker 1: And above all, endeavor to enter into a full recognition
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Speaker 1: and realization of your power to so direct these energies
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Speaker 1: to the parts of your organism selected by you, just
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Speaker 1: as you would direct a stream of electricity or magnetism
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Speaker 1: under your control and direction At the same time, you
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Speaker 1: should awaken within yourself the strong, insistent desire and wish
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Speaker 1: that these potent energies will flow under your direction and
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Speaker 1: according to your concentrated will, proceeding to the regions of
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Speaker 1: your organism which you have selected for the purpose of regeneration.
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Speaker 1: This insistent desire is an important basis for the exercise
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Speaker 1: of the persistent will. Finally, you should firmly, determinately and
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Speaker 1: persistently employer will toward the end that these energies may
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Speaker 1: flow freely when and where you may direct them. This
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Speaker 1: direction being supplied by your mental picture or strong idea,
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Speaker 1: which serves as the chart, map, pattern, or mold for
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Speaker 1: the actualization or materialization the process. In directing the flow
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Speaker 1: of the regenerative power to any part of your physical
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Speaker 1: or mental organism, you should first form the mental pattern, chart,
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Speaker 1: or mold which you desire to be followed in the
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Speaker 1: actualization process. You must also actually see mentally the flow
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Speaker 1: of the power to the parts, glands, or centers indicated
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Speaker 1: in your mental chart or pattern. The more clearly you
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Speaker 1: can visualize the process, the more effective will be the result.
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Speaker 1: After you have practiced the method of regeneration for a
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Speaker 1: short time, this visualization and conscious use of the directing
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Speaker 1: will become practically instinctive and automatic, the subconscious mentality having
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Speaker 1: taken over the process as a habit, just as it
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Speaker 1: does any action which you practice or perform frequently. You
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Speaker 1: may either treat your entire system in this way, or
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Speaker 1: else you may direct the flow of power to any
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Speaker 1: particular part, portion, or center of your body which you
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Speaker 1: may feel to require or likely to be specially benefited
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Speaker 1: by the reinvigoration and strengthening. However, even when you treat
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Speaker 1: special parts of the body in this way, it is
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Speaker 1: well to conclude the treatment by a general treatment, in
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Speaker 1: which you flush or saturate the whole body with a
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Speaker 1: supply of the reinvigorating power for increased mental power and activity.
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Speaker 1: The current is to be directed to the brain for
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Speaker 1: increased breathing power, to the lungs for increased muscular power,
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Speaker 1: to the muscles in question for increased digestive power, to
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Speaker 1: the stomach and intestines, and so on, each organ or
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Speaker 1: part receiving its special treatment. Many have found it helpful
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Speaker 1: to employ the rhythmic breathing method in connection with this
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Speaker 1: process of directing the flow of the regenerative power. This
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Speaker 1: method is simple. It consists merely of slow, deep, regular
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Speaker 1: breathing in slow measured rhythm or regular time. With each inhalation,
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Speaker 1: you should visualize the rise of the regenerative power to
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Speaker 1: the solar plexus in the region of the pit of
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Speaker 1: the stomach, and with each exhalation you should visualize the
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Speaker 1: outward flow upward or dend or both, as the case
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Speaker 1: may be, of the regenerative power to the selected parts
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Speaker 1: of the body or to the body as a whole.
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Speaker 1: This produces what may be called a psychological pumping process,
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Speaker 1: which is reproduced in actualization by the rise and distribution
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Speaker 1: of the regenerative power. A certain knack is required here,
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Speaker 1: but a little practice soon produces this. The process is
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Speaker 1: quite easy of performance. You will find this method to
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Speaker 1: be extremely helpful when employed at times when you are tired, fatigued,
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Speaker 1: or overworked. Also when you may feel depressed, despondent, or blue.
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Speaker 1: It seems to pump new life into one. As an
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Speaker 1: enthusiastic practicer of the method, once expressed, it it acts
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Speaker 1: to stimulate the circulation, to clean out the nerve channels,
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Speaker 1: to vitalize the brain, and to stimulate reinvigorate and energize
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Speaker 1: the entire system. In many cases, it produces the feeling
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Speaker 1: and the subsequent outward manifestation of youthfulness of spirit. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: the ancients were quite justified in figuratively styling it the
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Speaker 1: elixir of life or the fountain of youth. Its enthusiastic
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Speaker 1: followers ancient and modern attribute to it all of the
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Speaker 1: actual benefits which are reported as following the surgical gland transplantation,
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Speaker 1: which we have noted in preceding sections of this book.
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Speaker 1: The unmarried man or woman may employ this method with
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Speaker 1: excellent results when he or she experiences the rise of exciting, amatory,
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Speaker 1: or sexual feelings, which in many cases may cause physical
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Speaker 1: or mental strain or distress. In such cases, there is
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Speaker 1: experience to decided and positive relief. The tension is withdrawn
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Speaker 1: when this method is employed. Moreover, the sexual energy is
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Speaker 1: in such case actually transmuted into regenerative power and is
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Speaker 1: employed for the upbuilding and strengthening of body mind. If
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Speaker 1: young persons of both sexes knew of this method, there
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Speaker 1: would be fewer cases of their going wrong because of
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Speaker 1: their sexual passions, instead of a forced repression under a
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Speaker 1: nervous strain and tension. There would be secured the relief
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Speaker 1: of transmutation and diffusion of these potent energies of the system,
3:34:09
Speaker 1: and health and vigor would replace nervous strain and the
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Speaker 1: strenuous effort of repression. If the moralists would teach this
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Speaker 1: method and principle in connection with their general precepts, their
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Speaker 1: task would be rendered easier and far more successful. There
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Speaker 1: is a great field open here for workers along the
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Speaker 1: lines of social purity and similar movements. There is a
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Speaker 1: far greater force in a positive do than in a
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Speaker 1: negative don't. Here, indeed, is the way out for persons
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Speaker 1: whose sexual natures assert themselves too strongly, and who wish
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Speaker 1: to lead a chaste, moral sexual life, although beset by
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Speaker 1: the temptations which arise on all sides. Here is a
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Speaker 1: method of practical morality in keeping with the highest precepts
3:34:53
Speaker 1: of religion, duty, and social rectitude. Those interested in the
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Speaker 1: moral welfare of the race would do well to consider
3:35:00
Speaker 1: carefully and seriously the principles of regeneration. The effect of
3:35:05
Speaker 1: the regenerative power is especially noticeable when the individual is
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Speaker 1: employed in creative work along material or mental lines. The
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Speaker 1: regenerative power being essentially creative acts with special force when
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Speaker 1: the hands or head are employed in work which manifests
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Speaker 1: in inventing, designing, construction, building, up putting together. In short,
3:35:27
Speaker 1: in creative work in general, one may create mentally materially
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Speaker 1: on many planes as well as on the procreative plane
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Speaker 1: of manifestation. Writers, inventors, designers, teachers, artisans, architects, and many
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Speaker 1: others performing constructive creative work may be greatly benefited by
3:35:47
Speaker 1: the methods of regeneration. Here is another valuable hint. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the study of regenerative power and regeneration is filled with
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Speaker 1: valuable and suggestive hints which may be taken up and
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Speaker 1: applied to advantage by those wise enough to perceive and
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Speaker 1: appreciate them. In addition to the physical and mental improvement
3:36:05
Speaker 1: manifested by those practicing the methods of regeneration, there is
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Speaker 1: another phase of development which has attracted the attention of
3:36:12
Speaker 1: careful students of this subject, and which should be mentioned here.
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Speaker 1: We allude to that subtle, powerful something which is known
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Speaker 1: as personal magnetism. This is well known in actual experience,
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Speaker 1: although it is subtle and so elusive that it is
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Speaker 1: most difficult to describe. It may be said to consist
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Speaker 1: of that peculiar personal charm which some persons have and
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Speaker 1: which others seem to lack. Persons who are strongly sexed
3:36:38
Speaker 1: frequently display this power in higher or lower forms and phases.
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Speaker 1: This has caused some writers to suppose that it is
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Speaker 1: intimately related to the sexual nature, and to suggest the
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Speaker 1: development of the latter as a means of cultivating the power.
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Speaker 1: But this view is but a half truth, and a
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Speaker 1: dangerous half truth at that it is not necessary for
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Speaker 1: one to develop the ordinary procreatives sexual power in order
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Speaker 1: to become magnetic. Rather, should one endeavor to master the
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Speaker 1: principles and methods of regeneration as the road to such power.
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Speaker 1: The person who succeeds in transmuting the sexual energy and
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Speaker 1: in diffusing it to all the physical and emotional centers
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Speaker 1: of his system becomes highly magnetic, highly charged with personal
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Speaker 1: magnetism in many cases. Here, then, is a safe, moral,
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Speaker 1: and efficacious method which may be approved of by the
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Speaker 1: most conservative moralist, and which is free from the glaring
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Speaker 1: faults and dangerous elements of the strongly sexed teachings. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: that magnetism generated by this method is clean, wholesome, and
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Speaker 1: exalting and far removed from the impure, harmful lowering influence
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Speaker 1: too often present in the magnetism of persons of the
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Speaker 1: highly sexed type who live lives too often far from desirable, beneficial, moral,
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Speaker 1: or righteous. In this connection, we wish to call your
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Speaker 1: attention to a fact which has been noted and commented
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Speaker 1: upon by many careful students of the subject of regeneration,
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Speaker 1: and which has greatly puzzled many good people. We allude
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Speaker 1: to the fact that persons practicing the methods of regeneration
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Speaker 1: and who live according to its principles, seem to possess
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Speaker 1: a potent quality of attraction for persons of the other sex.
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Speaker 1: In many cases, such attraction and its results proving embarrassing
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Speaker 1: and in the nature of a temptation. The explanation of
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Speaker 1: this fact is found in the law of polarity, which
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Speaker 1: is found manifest in all natural activities. We shall not
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Speaker 1: go into details concerning this law, but merely wish to
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Speaker 1: indicate the nature of the explanation. The person understanding the
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Speaker 1: principles and methods of personal power will have no difficulty
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Speaker 1: in meeting successfully these results of his attracting power. Concerning
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Speaker 1: this attractive influence. The following comments of doctor Hiram E.
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Speaker 1: Butler may prove interesting and instructive. Doctor Butler, a lifelong
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Speaker 1: and earnest investigator and teacher of the principles of regeneration,
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Speaker 1: though perhaps somewhat of an extremist in his views and methods, says,
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Speaker 1: those following these methods will have all the bloom of health,
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Speaker 1: and in addition will possess that personal magnetism which is
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Speaker 1: so attractive and which is really one of the strongest
3:39:12
Speaker 1: factors of success, even in a business way. It is
3:39:16
Speaker 1: in fact the main requisite for the success of speakers, teachers, lawyers,
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Speaker 1: doctors and salesmen. We have often heard that those who
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Speaker 1: are living this life have added power of attracting the
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Speaker 1: opposite sex. Now Here lies one of the greatest dangers,
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Speaker 1: that of attracting to oneself. Those who will use every
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Speaker 1: means to ensnare one young people who live this life
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Speaker 1: become possessed of such attractive powers that they usually have
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Speaker 1: their choice of a companion from any class of life. This, however,
3:39:46
Speaker 1: is the least important consideration. Doctor Butler also says, we
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Speaker 1: know that it is an impossibility to express in words
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Speaker 1: one half that is to be attained through this mode
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Speaker 1: of life. But we will mention a few facts and
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Speaker 1: leave you to prove them by experience. Then you will
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Speaker 1: know for yourself. It gives a joyous, happy feeling to
3:40:05
Speaker 1: body and mind, clears up the intellect so that one
3:40:08
Speaker 1: may readily understand the most abstruse subjects. It gives strength
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Speaker 1: and decision of character and directness of purpose, a love
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Speaker 1: of refinement, purity, goodness, honor, justice, and morality in every
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Speaker 1: conceivable direction. It adds to the capacity of mind and
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Speaker 1: body a process of growth which will steadily continue. We
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Speaker 1: have never known anyone who could define the limits of
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Speaker 1: the possibility of increase. We have known some of the
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Speaker 1: most marvelous mind powers gained through living the regenerate life.
3:40:37
Speaker 1: We have seen young men and women with pale faces,
3:40:39
Speaker 1: dim eyes, and poor health begin a course of lessons
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Speaker 1: on this subject, but before the course closed inside of
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Speaker 1: three weeks, their eyes would grow bright and the color
3:40:48
Speaker 1: would return to their cheeks. In addition to the physical
3:40:52
Speaker 1: and mental benefits resulting from the knowledge and practice of
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Speaker 1: the principles and methods of regeneration, there are spiritual benefits
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Speaker 1: to be derived from them. The awakening of the mind
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Speaker 1: and soul to the true nature and character of the
3:41:04
Speaker 1: principle of sex is akin to the admission of light
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Speaker 1: to the dark chambers of the soul, this radiance serving
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Speaker 1: to drive out many slimy, crawling, loathsome creatures which have
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Speaker 1: been making their home there. Chief among these loathsome creatures
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Speaker 1: are those twin devils, known respectively as abuse of sex
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Speaker 1: and fear and hatred of sex. When the sex principle
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Speaker 1: of nature is seen to be that which it really is, namely, clean, pure, normal, righteous,
3:41:32
Speaker 1: then the mind and soul cease to abuse and lower
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Speaker 1: it by excesses, wrong uses, abuses, and dissipation of its energies,
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Speaker 1: and at the same time all fear of its evil power,
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Speaker 1: or the perverted and abnormal hatred of its principle perish.
3:41:47
Speaker 1: The recognition, realization, and manifestation of the principles of regeneration
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Speaker 1: open a new world of spiritual life and living, just
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Speaker 1: as they have unfolded a new world of mental and
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Speaker 1: physical life and living with hid the realization that sex
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Speaker 1: is no devil, no tempting damon, no monster of evil,
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Speaker 1: but is instead a clean, pure, righteous, natural principle. Than
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Speaker 1: does the world seem to brighten in the clouds of
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Speaker 1: distrust melt away, then perishes the harmful conception of a
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Speaker 1: world which is half right and half wrong, and there
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Speaker 1: dawns a vision of a world of righteousness, in which
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Speaker 1: evil is but the shadow of good, the results of
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Speaker 1: good misunderstood and misapplied, wrongfully misused instead of righteously used.
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Speaker 1: Then perhaps more of us may feel that we can say,
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Speaker 1: with a clear consciousness of truth, that God is in
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Speaker 1: his heaven, and all's right with the world. We trust
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Speaker 1: that in this book we have given you a new
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Speaker 1: insight into this highly important, though greatly misunderstood subject of
3:42:45
Speaker 1: regenerative power and regeneration. The subject has been so misrepresented,
3:42:50
Speaker 1: both by its opponents and also its over zealous and
3:42:53
Speaker 1: fanatical friends, that it seems to be time that a sane, rational,
3:42:57
Speaker 1: conservative presentation of the golden mean of its tea, its principles,
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Speaker 1: and its methods should be made. We realize that we
3:43:05
Speaker 1: have but scratched the surface of this great and rich
3:43:08
Speaker 1: field of thought and practice. But we trust that we
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Speaker 1: have at least directed to that field the earnest attention
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Speaker 1: and careful thought of many who otherwise would have remained
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Speaker 1: in ignorance of its existence. Or who perhaps would have
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Speaker 1: avoided it by reason of previously acquired misconceptions concerning it.
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Speaker 1: In conclusion, let us remind you of that axiom of regeneration,
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Speaker 1: which states that that which brought you into being will
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Speaker 1: continue you in being. That which created you will recreate you.
3:43:36
Speaker 1: That which generated you will regenerate you. That which breathed
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Speaker 1: life into you will continue to breathe life into you.
3:43:42
Speaker 1: If you will but set its power into activity the
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Speaker 1: master formula. In the application of the principles and in
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Speaker 1: the practice of the methods upon which this instruction is based,
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Speaker 1: you will be greatly helped by the careful study and
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Speaker 1: the faithful observance of the spirit of the master formula
3:43:59
Speaker 1: of attainment, which is frequently referred to in the series
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Speaker 1: of books of which the present volume is one. The
3:44:05
Speaker 1: master formula of attainment is as follows. One definite ideals,
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Speaker 1: two insistent desire, three confident expectation for persistent determination, five
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Speaker 1: balanced compensation. Reduced to popular terms, it is as follows,
3:44:22
Speaker 1: you may have anything you want, provided that you one
3:44:26
Speaker 1: know exactly what you want, two want it hard enough,
3:44:29
Speaker 1: three confidently expect to obtain it for persistently determined to
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Speaker 1: obtain it, and five are willing to pay the price
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Speaker 1: of its attainment regenerative power. The end