to assist, it becomes well nigh impossible. Fodere mentions a
penis about the size of a porcupine-quill on an adult male, and Hammond
mentions one of the size of a lead-pencil in diameter and two inches in
length. From total absence of the penis, either through disease or
accident, to the diminutive organs mentioned by Fodere and Hammond, and
on up to the full-sized and normal-shaped organ, we have every degree of
sizes and shapes, and with these go every conceivable degree of ability
or faculty for impregnation.

Aside from the foregoing considerations, there are others equally
important. Although Greece was involved for years in war and ancient
Troy was destroyed and all its inhabitants slaughtered because of the
seduction of one woman; and Semiramis, through her beauty, got all her
successive husbands in chancery; and poor, susceptible Samson, from
firing Philistine vineyards and killing lions bare-handed, and the
Philistines by the thousands with the jaw-bone of an ass, was reduced
through Delilah to bitter repentance and turning Philistine mill-stones;
and we know that the familiar infatuation of Antony for Cleopatra ruined
Antony; and we are familiar with the well-known maxim of the French
police-minister, that to catch a criminal it was but necessary to first
locate _the woman_ and the man would soon be found,--society has
determined to ignore the influence of the animal passions as factors in
our every-day life, or factors in the estrangements, coldness, and the
bickerings that end in divorces. Not to shock the reader with detailed
accounts as to what an important factor the shape of the penis may be in
the domestic economy, I will refer the reader to Brantome's works.

Although the councils of the older church were not above giving these
conditions their calm and deliberate consideration, which resulted in
the foundation of the present physical considerations in relation to
divorce laws, such studies or considerations are at present only touched
upon gingerly and with apologies for doing so, as if the "study of man"
was of any less importance to-day from what it was in the days of Moses,
the elder church, or when Pope formulated his oft-quoted but
little-followed maxim, that "the proper study of mankind is man." The
present miscalled "delicacy of sentiment" is about as misplaced a
condition of disastrous and misleading morality as was the out-of-place
and untimely bravery of poor old Braddock when refusing Wash