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PART I<p> BYM. M. KNIGHT, PH.D.CHAPTER<p>I.PART II<p> BYIVA LOWTHER PETERS, PH.D.PART III<p> BY PHYLLIS BLANCHARD, PH.D.PART I<p> THE NEW BIOLOGY AND THE SEX PROBLEM IN SOCIETYCHAPTER IPart II, the obvious assumptionwill always be that these rest uponCHAPTER IICHAPTER IIICHAPTER IVCHAPTER VPART II<p> THE INSTITUTIONALIZED SEX TABOOCHAPTER IPart I, The Magic Artand thePart II, Taboo and the Perils of theCHAPTER IIPart I.Part V. Spirits of thePart IV. of TheGolden Bough; Adonis, Attis, and Osiris.CHAPTER IIICHAPTER IVPART III<p> THE SEX PROBLEM IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN PSYCHOLOGYCHAPTER IPart II of this study. DrPart I,CHAPTER IIPart I, Chapter III) believes that it is possible to differentiate womenCHAPTER III
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Taboo and Genetics, by Melvin Moses Knight,
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Taboo and Genetics, by Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and PhyllisMary BlanchardThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You maycopy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook oronline at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Taboo and GeneticsAuthor: Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary BlanchardRelease Date: December 11, 2004 [eBook #14325]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TABOO AND GENETICS***E-text prepared by Michael Ciesielski, Dave Macfarlane, and the Project Gutenberg Online DistributedProofreading TeamTranscriber's note: The irregular footnote markers in this text [numbers] refer to the reference book the authorused, and not always to the specific page numbers. These reference books are listed numerically at the end of each chapter. The footnotes are marked with [letters] and the referenced footnotes are contained within thetext, near to the footnote marker. Therefore, occasionally the numerical footnote markers are out of sequence.Words that were italicized are now marked by an underscore (
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).TABOO AND GENETICSA Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the FamilybyM. M. KNIGHT, PH.D.IVA LOWTHER PETERS, PH.D.PHYLLIS BLANCHARD, PH.D.Author of 
The Adolescent Girl
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co.1921DEDICATED TO OUR FRIEND AND TEACHER, FRANK HAMILTON HANKINSPREFACE
Taboo and Genetics, by Melvin Moses Knight,2
 
Scientific discovery, especially in biology, during the past two decades has made necessary an entirerestatement of the sociological problem of sex. Ward's so-called "gynæcocentric" theory, as sketched inChapter 14 of his
Pure Sociology
, has been almost a bible on the sex problem to sociologists, in spite of thefact that modern laboratory experimentation has disproved it in almost every detail. While a comparativelysmall number of people read this theory from the original source, it is still being scattered far and wide in theform of quotations, paraphrases, and interpretations by more popular writers. It is therefore necessary togather together the biological data which are available from technical experimentation and medical research,in order that its social implications may be utilized to show the obsoleteness of this older and unscientificstatement of the sex problem in society.In order to have a thoroughly comprehensive survey of the institutions connected with sexual relationshipsand the family and their entire significance for human life, it is also necessary to approach them from theethnological and psychological points of view. The influence of the primitive sex taboos on the evolution of the social mores and family life has received too little attention in the whole literature of sexual ethics and thesociology of sex. That these old customs have had an inestimable influence upon the members of the group,modern psychology has recently come to recognize. It therefore seems advantageous to include thesepsychological findings in the same book with the discussion of the sex taboos and other material with which itmust so largely deal.These fields--biology, ethnology, and psychology--are so complicated and so far apart technically, althoughtheir social implications are so closely interwoven, that it has seemed best to divide the treatment betweenthree different writers, each of whom has devoted much study to his special phase of the subject. This leads toa very simple arrangement of the material. The first part deals with the physical or biological basis of the sexproblem, which all societies from the most primitive to the most advanced have had and still have to buildupon. The second part deals with the various ideas man has developed in his quest for a satisfactoryadaptation of this physical basis to his own requirements. Part three attempts to analyze the effect of this longhistory of social experimentation upon the human psyche in its modern social milieu.In the social evolution of the human mind, the deepest desires of the individual have been often necessarilysacrificed to the needs of the group. Sometimes they have been unnecessarily sacrificed, since humanintelligence is, unfortunately, not omniscient. Nevertheless, the sum total of human knowledge has nowbecome great enough so that it is at least well to pause and take account of its bearing on the age-old problemof family life, in order that our evolution henceforth may be guarded by rational control rather than trial anderror in so far as is possible. Such a summarization of our actual knowledge of the biology, sociology andpsychology of the foundations of the family institution this book aims to present, and if it can at the same timesuggest a starting point for a more rationalized system of social control in this field, its purpose will have beenaccomplished.THE AUTHORS.CONTENTS
PART I
BY M. M. KNIGHT, PH.D.THE NEW BIOLOGY AND THE SEX PROBLEM IN SOCIETY
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