rred during childhood; _e.g._, in the case of the
masochist, when being punished with a whipping, and so on.

Beyond question, the impressions of childhood may result in the
formation of enduring associations. From experiences during childhood
may originate terrors and feelings of disgust which are never
subsequently overcome. A child who for any reason has several times felt
a strong loathing towards some particular article of food, will retain
throughout life a dislike to this same substance. Felix Platter relates
his own experience as follows. When a child, he once saw his sister
slicing rings of "boiled gorge" (_see note_, below.), and sticking these
rings on her finger. The sight was so unpleasant to him that he had to
go away. The disagreeable memory has been so persistent, that ever since
he has been unable to bear the sight, not merely of such "rings of
flesh," but rings of gold, silver, or any other material. A child who
has once been frightened by a dog, may ever after be terrified of all
dogs. An individual may also, by a kind of moral contagion, be affected
by the experiences of others. A child who has seen another child
frightened by a cat, may for this reason acquire an antipathy to cats
lasting for the whole of life. It is upon the undoubted fact of such
experiences as these, that those build their case who maintain that
sexual perversions originate in chance impressions during childhood or
early youth. But weighty reasons can be alleged against any such
generalisation.

_Note on the expression "Boiled Gorge."_--This is a literal
translation of the German _gesottne Gurgeln_, an apparently forgotten
article of diet. Finding no account of it in any German dictionary, I
applied to Dr. Moll, who writes as follows:--"_Gurgel_ denotes a
particular part of the neck, in human beings the front part, comprising
the hyoid bone, the larynx and trachea, the pharynx and the upper part
of the oesophagus, the thyroid body, and the adjoining muscles. As far
as I am aware, this part of the animal body is not now used for food.
Presumably it was so used in Felix Platter's time, but I cannot say if
the 'rings' of which he speaks were cut from the trachea, the
oesophagus, or perhaps the great blood-vessels."--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.

To return to the instance of the man who is sexually excited by the
sight of fowls being killed, it is true that on superficial
consideration the case may appear to support the