Homo Sum Being a Letter to An Anti Suffragist From An Anthropologist
Homo Sum Being a Letter to An Anti Suffragist From An Anthropologist
Harrison Jane Ellen
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But, on the whole, what we notice most is inhibition. The history of civilization is the history of a long con- flict between herd-socialism and individualistic im- * See Mr. Trotter's very suggestive papers on " Herd Instinct " in the Sociological Review, 1908. C 10 pulse. What concerns us here is the effect of ' 'herd' ' instinct on one, and only one, of these impulses, the sex instinct. Herd instinct tends to inhibit all individualistic impulse, but the conflict is, in the case of the impuls...e of sex, most marked, and, it would seem, most ineluctable. The herd aggregates, sex, more than any other instinct, segregates ; the herd is social, sex anti-social. Some animals e. G. , birds are gregarious until breeding time, and then they separate. Had humanity had no sex, it would probably have been civilized ages ago, only there might have been no humanity to civilize. At this point you will, I am sure, exclaim I am almost tempted to exclaim myself " This is im- possible, outrageous. ' ' What about the primal sancti- ties of marriage ?
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