Religion and Lust

119

Knight: op. cit. ante., p. 117.

120

The Worship of the Generative Powers, footnote p. 117.

121

Knight: The Worship of Priapus, p. 27, et seq.

122

B. Fay Mills, Sermon to Young Men and Young Women, at Owensboro, Ky., May 20, 1894.

123

This knowledge is not confined to the Catholic church alone; in all denominations the pubescent human being is considered most susceptible to religious influences. The cause or raison d ’etre of this susceptibility is, by no means, generally recognized.

124

Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, p. 8.

125

Spitzka: Insanity, p. 39.

126

Krafft-Ebing: op. cit. ante., p. 8, footnote.

127

Ibid.

128

Francis Parkman: The Jesuits in North America, p. 175. “O amour, quand vous embrasserai-je? N’avez vous point pitie de moi dans le tourment que je souffre? Hélas! mon amour, ma beauté, ma vie! au lieu de me guerir, vous vous plaisez à mes maux. Venez donc que je vous embrasse et je meure entre vos bras sacres.” Journal de Marie de l’Incarnation.

129

Francis Parkman: The Jesuits in North America, p. 176.

130

Friedreich: Psychologie, p. 389.

131

A recent writer, Dr. Lydston, expresses surprise that the brothel should occupy such a prominent place in the ancient chronicles. When the universality and high honor of phallic worship is taken into consideration, the entertainment of the “Captain of the Host” in a brothel ceases to be a matter or cause for surprise; the prominence given such entertainment by the ancient historians is perfectly natural and to be expected. Compare Lydston: The Diseases of Society, p. 305.

132

The author believes that upon the correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire depends, in a great measure, the stability of sexual morality. Were it not for this correlation, sexual promiscuity would be the rule throughout the world.

133

Loc. cit., November, 1894.

134

Newbold: Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly, February, 1897, p. 516.

135

Westermarck: History of Human Marriage, p. 352.

136

Biart: The Aztecs, p. 110.

137

Huxley: Essays; Haeckel: The History of Creation; Haeckel: The Evolution of Man; Peschel: The Races of Man; De Quatrefages: The Human Species; Draper: The Conflict Between Religion and Science; White: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology; Romanes: Mental Evolution in Man; Wallace: The Malay Archipelago (The Races of Man in the Malay Archipelago, c. xl); Darwin’s Works; Maudsley: The Physiology of Mind; Tylor: Anthropology; Spencer: Synthetic Philosophy—Prin. Psych., Prin. Sociol.

138

The sense of familiarity implies previous perception now dissociated, but subconsciously present and struggling up toward the surface of the upper consciousness to gain recognition. Boris Sidis: Multiple Personality, p. 51.

139

I know from personal observation that “Seeley Dinners” are of frequent occurrence in New York, as well as in other large cities. J. W., Jr.