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Title: The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, Walter J Robinson, Charles H Melendy, Mary Ries, 1842- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Eugenics Marriage Beauty, Personal Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ire false and base .views of Gods beautiful work.If the proper study of man-kind is man, then the youth-ful questioners How? andWhy? should be answered;and to answer wisely and well,£t3 the world itself must seek knowledge, and learn so to usep&«a and impart it as to further aand** ruzu pure and reverent self-devel-opment. Though man is more thanphysical, yet in finding thecenters of a human life, we areled first along the highway ofthe great sympathetic nervoussystem, which, whether we■»»«»■■ wake or sleep, continuouslyperforms its marvelous func-tions of controlling nutrition,respiration, the circulation of»■**J*,M the blood, and all the variousvital processes. In this wefind four great power-houses,so to speak; points from whichvitality is sent forth in all di- SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA AND NERVES. rections. THE BRAIN—MALE AND FEMALE. The first great center, the brain, has been well called the guardianand at the same time the servant of the mind; and through the mind
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GMajlin* LIFE-CENTERS. 41 the functions of every part of the body may be affected. The nerve-cells of the brain are specialists in their business; that is, they are soarranged that each group of cells controls its own peculiar workwhether mental or physical, doing that specific thing and nothing else.Thus, some cells enable us to think, others to speak, still others to moveour hands; some cause us to enjoy a beautiful landscape, others helpto plan a battle; and so onthrough the whole list ofmental and physical acts,sensations and emotions. These brain cells, like allother parts of the body,must be fed; hence certainnerves stimulate each cell toselect from the blood-sup-ply exactly the elementssuited to its own peculiarneed. Other nerves act asmessengers from the cells todifferent parts of the body. nerve cells oe neeve centees. Now, it must be remembered that each group of nerve-cells not onlydiffers in its work from the neighboring groups in the same brain, butthat the corresponding

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