The law of sex : being an exposition of the natural law by which the sex of offspring is controlled in man and the lower animals : and giving the solution of various social problems / by George B. Starkweather.

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1883
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    More, Sir Tlioraas, 194, 213. Mortality among infants, 16. Mortality in ditlerent occupations, 116. Morton, Professor, 217. Mothers of great men, 192, 194. Mother's will, affects child, 79. —, tlieory of sex, 33. Moulin, M. Bernard, cited, 193. Mouth and lips, superiority indicated by, 131. Mulattoes, excess of females among, 20, 160, 206. — of Java dying out, 145, 160, 206. — often sterile inter se, 73. — short-lived, 144. Mulatto women delicate, 145. Muscular system and superiority, 123, 244. Musical temperament 141, 169. Musicians, reasons for, having chiefly sons, 169. Namolini Letitia, 195. Napheys, Dr., cited, 24, 34,61, 172. Napier, C. O. G., birth tables, 174. Napoleon, 122, 129, 192, 195. Nasse, cited, 97. National Live Stock Jnl, 35, 192. Natural selection, 4, 63, 64, 69. — tendency to equilibrium, 22. to male excess, 11. Neck, the, superiority indi- cated by, 133. Negresses sterile with Arabs, 144. Negroes, crossing with Teutons, 147. —, excess of girls among, 20, 203. —, very prolific, 74. Neison, F. C. G., statistics, 166. Nervous force, 100 ft. per sec. 97. — and electricity, 97. Nervous system, how stimulated, 227, 230. ' — often morbidly active, 229. — the seat of life, 94. — and reproductive organs, 104. — and superiority, 123, 227, 229, 230, 244, 245. ' ' ' ' Nervous temperament 111. Newhall, Dr., cited, 29. Newton, Sir Isaac, 120, 193. New York World, 214. Non-survival of fittest, 85, 88, 253 Norton, Hon. Mrs., 194, 214. Nose, the, superiority indicated by, 128, 154. Notes and Queries (Hong-Kong), 197. Nott, Dr., on mulattoes, 144, 147. Nutrition affects sex, 183. Nutritive system and '' superiority, 124, 140, 142. — well developed, necessary for women, 239. Occupation affects sex, 164, 165. Olympias, 195. One-sided development 246. — families, 165, 223, 225. Orators not always superior, 171. Origin of Species (Darwin), 70, 148. Osseous system and superiority, 123. Over-education of women, 239. OvTilarian theory of sex, 31, 47. Pangenesis, theory of, 5, 80. Papillon, 83. Parentage determines character, 71. Parents, absolute equality in, 69. —, adversity of, influences sex, 162. —, conditions and habits of, in- fluences sex, 226. —, extreme divergence of, caiises sterility, 146. Parthenogenesis 54. Pedigree, a knowledge of, aids pre- diction, 187. Pfaff cited, 97. Phosphates in food, 235. Pigeons, 72, 225. Pike, Z. M., 214. Pitt, William, 194. Plants, sex ruled by nutrition, etc., 26, 94. ' Plato held equality of sexes, 60. Plowden, cited, 13. Polarity in human body, 99. Polygamy said to be necessary, 16. — does not afl'ect sexes, 18. Person, Richard, 196. Powell, Dr., cited, 118. Principle of adjustment, essential in true theory, 153. —, how it operates, 184, 186, 209. 261. ' ' > > —, in families, 185, 191. —, necessary on theory of opposites, 187. 19