THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
OF LOVE
BY
REMY DE GOURMONT
Translated with a Postscript By
EZRA POUND
BONI AND LIVERIGHT
Publishers
New York
1922
CONTENTS
Love's general psychology.—Love according to naturallaws.—Sexual selection.—Man's place in Nature.—Identity ofhuman and animal psychology.—The animal nature of love.
The importance of the sexual act.—Its ineluctablecharacter.—Animals who live only to reproduce themselves.—The strifefor love, and for death.—Females fecundated at the veryinstant of birth.—The maintenance of life.
Asexual reproduction.—Formation of the animalcolony.—Limits of asexual reproduction.—Coupling.—Birthof the sexes.—Hermaphrodism and parthenogenesis.—Chemicalfecundation.—Universality of parthenogenesis.
1. Invertebrates: formation of the male.—Primitivity ofthe female.—Minuscule males: the bonellie.—Regressionof the male into the male organ: the rirripedes.—Generalityof sexual dimorphism.—Superiority of the female in mostinsect species.—Exceptions.—Numeric dimorphism.—Femalehymenoptera.—Multiplicity of her activities.—Male's purelysexual rôle.—Dimorphism of ants and termites.—Grasshoppersand crickets.—Spiders.—Coleoptera.—Glow-worm.—Cochineal'sstrange dimorphism.
2. Vertebrates:—Unnoticeable in fish, saurians, reptiles.—The bird world.—Dimorphism favourable to males: theoriole, pheasants, the ruff.—Peacocks and turkey-cocks.—Birdsof paradise.—Moderate dimorphism of mammifers.—Effectsof castration on dimorphism.
3. Vertebrates (Continued):—Man and woman.—Characteristicsand limits of human dimorphism.—Effects of civilization.—Psychologicdimorphism.—The insect world and the human.—Modern dimorphism,basis of the pair.—Solidarity of thehuman pair.—Dimorphism and polygamy.—The pair favours thefemale.—Sexual æsthetics.—Causes of the superiority offeminine beauty.
VII. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM AND FEMINISM
Inferiority and superiority of the female as shown in animalspecies.—Influence of feeding on the production ofsexes.—The female would have sufficed.—Feminism absolute, andmoderate.—Pipe-dreams: elimination of the male and humanparthenogenesis.
Sexual dimorphism and parallelism.—Sexual organs of man andof woman.—Constancy of sexual parallelism in the animalseries.—External sexual organs of placentary mammifera.—Formand position of the penis.—The penial bone.—Theclitoris.—The vagina.—The teats.—Forked prong of marsupials.Sexual organs of reptiles.—Fish and birds with a penialorgan.—Genital organs of arthropodes.—Attempt to classifyanimals according to the disposition, presence, absence ofexterior organs for reproduction.
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