In general foids are less concerned with beauty, especially of the face; it is as if they alone took it upon themselves to give this to the child. They are won mainly by a man’s strength, and the courage connected with it; for these promise the production of strong children, and at the same time a courageous protector for them.
Every bodily defect in the man, every variation from the type, can be eliminated, as regards the child, by the foid in reproduction through the fact that she herself is faultless in these respects, or even exceeds in the opposite direction. Only those qualities of the man are excluded from them which are peculiar to his sex, and which the mother, therefore, cannot give to the child.
Such are the male structure of the skeleton, broad shoulders, narrow hips, straight legs, muscular strength, courage, beard, and so on. The result is that women often love ugly men, but never an unmanly man, because they cannot neutralise his defects.
The second kind of considerations underlying attraction are those that concern psychic qualities. Here we shall find that the foid is generally attracted by the man’s qualities of heart or character, as being those which are inherited from the father. The foid is won especially by firmness of will, resoluteness, and courage.
With regards to height, short men have a decided inclination for tall foids, and vice versa; indeed in a short man the preference for tall foid will be the more passionate, according as he himself was begotten by a tall father, and has remained short only through the influence of his mother, because he has inherited from the father the vascular system and its energy that is able to supply a large body with blood. On the other hand, if his father and grandfather were short, that inclination will be less decided.
At the root of a tall foid’s aversion to tall men is nature’s intention to avoid too tall a race, lest with the strength to be imparted by this foid, the race should prove to be too weak to live long. But if such a foid chooses a tall husband, perhaps for the sake of being more presentable in society, then, as a rule, the offspring will atone for the folly; subhuman child.
Intellectual merits do not exercise any direct and instinctive power over foids, just because they are not inherited from the father. With foids want of understanding does not matter; in fact, extraordinary mental power, or even genius, as something abnormal, might have an unfavourable effect. Hence we often see an ugly, stupid, and coarse fellow get the better of a cultured, clever, and amiable man when dealing with foids.
Every bodily defect in the man, every variation from the type, can be eliminated, as regards the child, by the foid in reproduction through the fact that she herself is faultless in these respects, or even exceeds in the opposite direction. Only those qualities of the man are excluded from them which are peculiar to his sex, and which the mother, therefore, cannot give to the child.
Such are the male structure of the skeleton, broad shoulders, narrow hips, straight legs, muscular strength, courage, beard, and so on. The result is that women often love ugly men, but never an unmanly man, because they cannot neutralise his defects.
The second kind of considerations underlying attraction are those that concern psychic qualities. Here we shall find that the foid is generally attracted by the man’s qualities of heart or character, as being those which are inherited from the father. The foid is won especially by firmness of will, resoluteness, and courage.
With regards to height, short men have a decided inclination for tall foids, and vice versa; indeed in a short man the preference for tall foid will be the more passionate, according as he himself was begotten by a tall father, and has remained short only through the influence of his mother, because he has inherited from the father the vascular system and its energy that is able to supply a large body with blood. On the other hand, if his father and grandfather were short, that inclination will be less decided.
At the root of a tall foid’s aversion to tall men is nature’s intention to avoid too tall a race, lest with the strength to be imparted by this foid, the race should prove to be too weak to live long. But if such a foid chooses a tall husband, perhaps for the sake of being more presentable in society, then, as a rule, the offspring will atone for the folly; subhuman child.
Intellectual merits do not exercise any direct and instinctive power over foids, just because they are not inherited from the father. With foids want of understanding does not matter; in fact, extraordinary mental power, or even genius, as something abnormal, might have an unfavourable effect. Hence we often see an ugly, stupid, and coarse fellow get the better of a cultured, clever, and amiable man when dealing with foids.
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