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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
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as he would be,the effect would be thrilling. He would psychologize every auditor. Reich-enbach, it is said, has demonstrated that the hands are constantly sendingoff streams of what he calls Odic force, and what I term animal electricity;also that the eyes are foci for this influence. Odic force is but anothername for electric force, sublimated animal electricity being the elementwhich constitutes it. The power of individual electricity is manifested in the successful liber-tine. His presence, his gaze, and his touch are magnetic. The innocentvirgin and the reserved matron unconsciously fall victims to his singularpowers. Aaron Burr was a distinguished illustration of this class. Hecould electrify and call into action the most latent passions of apatheticwomen ; only those who possessed a powerful will to repel electrical in-fluences could resist his licentious advances. All great men may be successful libertines, by perverting their electrical INSTRUMENTS OF PLEASURABLE EMOTION. 827
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RANDOLPH. powers. The mental or phrenological organization of a man decides hiselectrical character. If his intellectual faculties predominate, he will em»ploy his electric forces in the pursuit of honorable avocations and profes-sions ; if the intellectual and animal faculties are nearly equal in their de-velopment, then will he make both good andbad use of these forces, unless the brainis well balanced with the moral and religiousorgans ; if the latter are small and the animalorgans are larger or more active than the in-tellectual, then will the man use the subtleelement generated in his system in viciouspursuits. John Randolphs head was mainlybefore his ears, in consequence of which he> disposition to use his electrical pow-ers for sensual purposes. Indeed, he wassaid to be a woman hater. Many of hispolitical compeers, however, presented verydifferent phrenological organizations, which,in some instances, produced a marked and in-jurious influence upon their distinguished career

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