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each of her children, and we can understand that her whole soul is
adapted in consequence to maternity. Even when birth has detached the
child from the maternal body, it remains attached to its mother by a
hundred bonds, not only during the period of suckling, but long
afterward when the conventions do not violate natural laws. Little
children are deeply attached to their mother, and while the father is
impatient with their cries and the embarrassment which they cause, the
mother takes a natural delight in them. When pregnancies succeed each
other at reasonable intervals of one or two years, the normal woman
lives with her children for many years in intimacy which never
entirely ceases in a family animated by human and social sentiments.

In normal circumstances the special bonds which unite the mother to
her children last for life, while the father, if all goes well,
becomes simply the best friend of his growing children. It is time
that fathers began to recognize these natural laws, instead of
clinging so tenaciously to the historic and artificial prestige of a
worm-eaten and unnatural patriarchal authority. No doubt there are
many pathological and degenerate mothers, but such an anomaly only
proves the rule that we have just laid down.

=Correlative Sexual Characters.=--The correlative sexual characters,
which we have previously spoken of in animals, are well known in man.
Man is in the average larger, broader in the shoulders and more
robust; his skeleton is more solid but his pelvis narrower. At the age
of puberty, from 16 to 20 years, the beard grows on the face, while in
the pubic region hair develops in both sexes. At the same time the
testicles and external genital organs enlarge. The sexual glands as
well as the external genital organs have remained so far in an
embryonic state although the mechanism of erection is already
established in young boys. But this mechanism, in the normal boy, is
not associated with any voluptuous sensation or any glandular
secretion.

Man possesses the rudiments of the correlative sexual characters of
woman, such as nipples without lactiferous glands, etc. In a general
way each part of the external genital organs of one sex has its
corresponding embryonic homologue in the other, which is explained by
the different transformations which were originally the same in the
embryo. The clitoris of woman corresponds to the penis of man, the
labia majora to the scrotum, etc. In certai