Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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sof the pair, so that magnetic or physical attraction is for a time suspendedafter it. What is Mental Adaptation ? Mental adaptation, in marriage, consists in at least an approximate corre-spondence in the tastes, sentiments, and propensities of the husband and wife.The organs of Conscientiousness (15), Benevolence (19), Veneration (18),Hope (16), and Spirituality (11), as represented in the annexed cut, impart tothe human mind a religious character. Now, the possession of high moraland religious sentiments by one, and a total destitution of them in the otheris frequently the cause of matrimonial discords and sometimes separations.How can a pious wife enjoy the society of a husband who ridicules, andperhaps forbids, her devotional exercises ? How can a devotional husbandlove a wife who neither sympathizes with, nor participates in, his religioussentiments, while, by precept and example, she trains up his children re-gardless of his cherished principles ? WHAT IS MENTAL ADAPTATION? 803
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MENTAL OBGANIZATION. The organ of inhabitiveness (4), when largely developed in the hu-man head, gives attachment to home and love of country. A wife,possessing a full development of y. this organ, can never live happilywith a husband whose inhabitive-ness is small and locality (31)large. He will ever be on themove, like the rolling stone, andthe wife must sacrifice her loveof home and a permanent locationby following in his wak«, or elselet him go, and content herself inloneliness. Some wives are ren-dered miserable by the itinerantpropensities of their husbands,who are ever changing their placeof residence, and hardly remainlong enough in one locality to getthe curtains up and carpets down.Sometimes it is the reverse, the wife having the roving propensity, andher husband, unless like her in this respect, is annoyed to death with herdiscontentment The organ of philoprogenitiveness (2) makes its possessor very fond ofchildren. If the wife has this faculty small, and the husband large

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