Chapter XII: The Sexual Selection of Man: Typical Beauty

Female selection among animals and the indifference of the males, p. 253.—Woman more particular in her choice than man, pp. 253, _et seq._—Female appreciation of manly strength and courage, pp. 255, _et seq._—Men attracted by healthy women, p. 256.—The connection between love and beauty not peculiar to the civilized mind, p. 257.—Different notions of personal beauty, pp. 257, _et seq._—Mr. Spencer’s theory of ‘facial perfection,’ pp. 258, _et seq._—Men find beauty in the full development of the visible characteristics belonging to the human organism in general, p. 259.—Of those peculiar to the sex, pp. 259, _et seq._—Of those peculiar to the race, pp. 261-264.—The connection between love and beauty due to natural selection, pp. 265, 273, _et seq._—Individual deviations from the national type less considerable among savages than among civilized men, pp. 265, _et seq._—Racial peculiarities in some way connected with the external circumstances in which the various races live, pp. 266-271.—Acclimatization, pp. 268-270.—Professor Weismann’s theory of heredity applied to the origin of the human races, pp. 271-273.—Physical beauty the outward manifestation of physical perfection, pp. 273, _et seq._—Rejection of Mr. Darwin’s opinion on the connection between love and beauty, pp. 274, _et seq._—Rejection of his theory as to the origin of the human races, pp. 275, _et seq._—The hairlessness of man, pp. 276, _et seq._—The influence of sexual selection on the physical aspect of mankind, p. 277.

CHAPTER XIII

THE LAW OF SIMILARITY

Instinctive aversion among animals to pairing with individuals belonging to another species, pp. 278-280.—Infertility of first crosses and of hybrids, pp. 279, _et seq._—‘The Law of Similarity,’ p. 280.—Bestiality, pp. 280, _et seq._—The various human races said to have an instinctive aversion to intermingling, pp. 281, _et seq._—Intermixture of races, pp. 282, _et seq._—Its effects on fertility, pp. 283-288.—Rejection of M. Broca’s theory as to the infertility of the connections of Europeans with Australian women, pp. 284-287.—The doctrine of the unity of mankind independent of the degree of fertility of first crosses, and of mongrels, pp. 288, _et seq._