Primitive Love and Love-Stories

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Author

Finck, Henry T., 1854-1926

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager; Keith M. Eckrich, Post-Proofer; Online Distributed Proofreaders Team

Language

English

LoC Class

HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender

Subject

Love

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Text

eBook-No.

11934

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11934

Release Date

April 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BY HENRY T. FINCK — DEDICATED TO ONE WHO TAUGHT THE AUTHOR THAT CONJUGAL AFFECTION IS NOT INFERIOR TO ROMANTIC LOVE — PREFACE
2. 2.CONTENTS — HISTORY OF AN IDEA — PRIMITIVE LOVE — HISTORY OF AN IDEA — ORIGIN OF A BOOK — SKEPTICAL CRITICS — ROBERT BURTON — HEGEL ON GREEK LOVE — SHELLEY ON GREEK LOVE — MACAULAY, BULWER-LYTTON, GAUTIER — GOLDSMITH AND ROUSSEAU — LOVE A COMPOUND FEELING — HERBERT SPENCER'S ANALYSIS — ACTIVE IMPULSES MUST BE ADDED — SENSUALITY THE ANTIPODE OF LOVE — THE WORD ROMANTIC — ANIMALS HIGHER THAN SAVAGES — LOVE THE LAST, NOT THE FIRST, PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION — PLAN OF THIS VOLUME — GREEK SENTIMENTALITY — IMPORTANCE OF LOVE — HOW SENTIMENTS CHANGE AND GROW — NO LOVE OF ROMANTIC SCENERY — NO LOVE IN EARLY RELIGION — MURDER AS A VIRTUE — SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. — HONORABLE POLYGAMY — CURIOSITIES OF MODESTY — INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY — HORROR OF INCEST — WHAT IS ROMANTIC LOVE? — INGREDIENTS OF LOVE — I. INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE — ALL GIRLS EQUALLY ATTRACTIVE — SHALLOW PREDILECTION — REPRESSION OF PREFERENCE — UTILITY VERSUS SENTIMENT — A STORY OF AFRICAN LOVE — SIMILARITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND SEXES — PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SEXUAL CHARACTERS — FASTIDIOUS SENSUALITY IS NOT LOVE — TWO STORIES OF INDIAN LOVE — FEMININE IDEALS SUPERIOR TO MASCULINE — SEX IN BODY AND MIND — TRUE FEMININITY AND ITS FEMALE ENEMIES — MYSTERIES OF LOVE — AN ORIENTAL LOVE-STORY — II. MONOPOLISM — JULIET AND NOTHING BUT JULIET — BUTTERFLY LOVE — ROMANTIC STORIES OF NON-ROMANTIC LOVE — OBSTACLES TO MONOPOLISM — WIVES AND GIRLS IN COMMON — TRIAL MARRIAGES — TWO ROMAN LOVERS — III. JEALOUSY — RAGE AT RIVALS — WOMEN AS PRIVATE PROPERTY — HORRIBLE PUNISHMENTS — ESSENCE OF TRUE JEALOUSY — ABSENCE OF MASCULINE JEALOUSY — PERSIAN AND GREEK JEALOUSY — PRIMITIVE FEMININE JEALOUSY — ABSENCE OF FEMININE JEALOUSY — JEALOUSY PURGED OF HATE — A VIRTUOUS SIN — ABNORMAL STATES — JEALOUSY IN ROMANTIC LOVE — IV. COYNESS — WOMEN WHO WOO — WERE HEBREW AND GREEK WOMEN COY? — MASCULINE COYNESS — SHY BUT NOT COY — MILITARISM AND MEDIAEVAL WOMEN — WHAT MADE WOMEN COY? — CAPTURING WOMEN — THE COMEDY OF MOCK CAPTURE — WHY THE WOMEN RESIST — QUAINT CUSTOMS — GREEK AND ROMAN MERCENARY COYNESS — MODESTY AND COYNESS — UTILITY OF COYNESS — HOW WOMEN PROPOSE — V. HOPE AND DESPAIR—MIXED MOODS — AMOROUS ANTITHESES — COURTSHIP AND IMAGINATION — EFFECTS OF SENSUAL LOVE — VI. HYPERBOLE — GIRLS AND FLOWERS — EYES AND STARS — LOCKS AND FRAGRANCE — POETIC DESIRE FOR CONTACT — NATURE'S SYMPATHY WITH LOVERS — ROMANTIC BUT NOT LOVING — THE POWER OF LOVE — VII. PRIDE — COMIC SIDE OF LOVE — A MYSTERY EXPLAINED — IMPORTANCE OF PRIDE — VARIETIES AND GERMS — NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS OF LOVE — VIII. SYMPATHY — EGOTISM, NAKED OK MASKED — DELIGHT IN THE TORTURE OF OTHERS — INDIFFERENCE TO SUFFERING — EXPOSING THE SICK AND AGED — BIRTH OF SYMPATHY — WOMEN CRUELER THAN MEN — PLATO DENOUNCES SYMPATHY — SHAM ALTRUISM IN INDIA — EVOLUTION OF SYMPATHY — AMOROUS SYMPATHY — IX. ADORATION — DEIFICATION OF PERSONS — PRIMITIVE CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN — HOMAGES TO PRIESTESSES — KINSHIP THROUGH FEMALES ONLY — WOMAN'S DOMESTIC RULE — WOMAN'S POLITICAL RULE — GREEK ESTIMATE OF WOMEN — MAN-WORSHIP AND CHRISTIANITY — X. UNSELFISH GALLANTRY. — THE GALLANT ROOSTER — UNGALLANT LOWER RACES OF MEN — EGYPTIAN LOVE — ARABIAN LOVE — THE UNCHIVALROUS GREEKS — OVID'S SHAM GALLANTRY — MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN GALLANTRY — "AN INSULT TO WOMAN" — SUMMARY — A SURE TEST OF LOVE — XI. ALTRUISTIC SELF-SACRIFICE — THE LADY AND THE TIGER — A GREEK LOVE-STORY — PERSIAN LOVE — HERO AND LEANDER — THE ELEPHANT AND THE LOTOS — SUICIDE IS SELFISH — XII. AFFECTION — EROTIC ASSASSINS — THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON — STUFF AND NONSENSE — SACRIFICES OF CANNIBAL HUSBANDS — INCLINATIONS MISTAKEN FOR AFFECTION — SELFISH LIKING AND ATTACHMENT — FOOLISH FONDNESS — UNSELFISH AFFECTION — XIII. MENTAL PURITY — GERMAN TESTIMONY — ENGLISH TESTIMONY — MAIDEN FANCIES — PATHOLOGIC LOVE — A MODERN SENTIMENT — PERSIANS, TURKS, AND HINDOOS — LOVE DESPISED IN JAPAN AND CHINA — GREEK SCORN FOR WOMAN-LOVE — PENETRATIVE VIRGINITY — XIV. ADMIRATION OF PERSONAL BEAUTY — DARWIN'S UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE — "DECORATION" FOR PROTECTION — WAR "DECORATIONS" — AMULETS, CHARMS, MEDICINES. — MOURNING LANGUAGE — INDICATIONS OF TRIBE OR RANK — VAIN DESIRE TO ATTRACT ATTENTION — OBJECTS OF TATTOOING — TATTOOING ON PACIFIC ISLANDS — TATTOOING IN AMERICA — TATTOOING IN JAPAN — SCARIFICATION. — ALLEGED TESTIMONY OF NATIVES — MISLEADING TESTIMONY OF VISITORS — "DECORATION" AT THE AGE OF PUBERTY — "DECORATION" AS A TEST OF COURAGE — MUTILATION, FASHION, AND EMULATION — PERSONAL BEAUTY VERSUS PERSONAL DECORATION — DE GUSTIBUS NON EST DISPUTANDUM (?) — INDIFFERENCE TO DIRT — REASONS FOR BATHING. — CORPULENCE VERSUS BEAUTY — FATTENING GIRLS FOR THE MARRIAGE MARKET — ORIENTAL IDEALS — THE CONCUPISCENCE THEORY OF BEAUTY — UTILITY IS NOT BEAUTY — A NEW SENSE EASILY LOST AGAIN — MORAL UGLINESS — BEAUTIFYING INTELLIGENCE — THE STRANGE GREEK ATTITUDE — A COMPOSITE AND VARIABLE SENTIMENT — DEFINITION OF LOVE — WHY CALLED ROMANTIC — SENSUALITY, SENTIMENTALITY, AND SENTIMENT — APPETITE AND LONGING — WILES OF AN ORIENTAL GIRL — RARITY OF TRUE LOVE — MISTAKES REGARDING CONJUGAL LOVE — HOW ROMANTIC LOVE IS METAMORPHOSED — WHY SAVAGES VALUE WIVES — MOURNING TO ORDER — MOURNING FOR ENTERTAINMENT — THE TRUTH ABOUT WIDOW-BURNING — FEMININE DEVOTION IN ANCIENT LITERATURE — WIVES ESTEEMED AS MOTHERS ONLY — WHY CONJUGAL PRECEDES ROMANTIC LOVE — OBSTACLES TO ROMANTIC LOVE — II. COARSENESS AND OBSCENITY — III. WAR — IV. CRUELTY — V. MASCULINE SELFISHNESS — VI. CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN — VII. CAPTURE AND SALE OF BRIDES — VIII. INFANT MARRIAGES — IX. PREVENTION OF FREE CHOICE — X. SEPARATION OF THE SEXES — XI. SEXUAL TABOOS — XII. RACE AVERSION — XIII. MULTIPLICITY OF LANGUAGES — XIV. SOCIAL BARRIERS — XV. RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE — SPECIMENS OF AFRICAN LOVE — BUSHMAN QUALIFICATIONS FOR LOVE — "LOVE IN ALL THEIR MARRIAGES" — FALSE FACTS REGARDING HOTTENTOTS — EFFEMINATE MEN AND MASCULINE WOMEN — HOW THE HOTTENTOT WOMAN "RULES AT HOME" — "REGARD FOR WOMEN" — CAPACITY FOR REFINED LOVE — HOTTENTOT COARSENESS — FAT VERSUS SENTIMENT — SOUTH AFRICAN LOVE-POEMS — A HOTTENTOT FLIRT — KAFFIR MORALS — INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE FOR—COWS — BARGAINING FOR BRIDES — AMOROUS PREFERENCES — ZULU GIRLS NOT COY — CHARMS AHD POEMS — A KAFFIR LOVE-STORY — LOWER THAN BEASTS — COLONIES OF FREE LOVERS — A LESSON IN GALLANTRY — NOT A PARTICLE OF ROMANCE — NO LOVE AMONG NEGROES — A QUEER STORY — SUICIDES — POETIC LOVE ON THE CONGO — BLACK LOVE IN KAMERUN — A SLAVE COAST LOVE-STORY — THE MAIDEN WHO ALWAYS REFUSED — AFRICAN STORY-BOOKS — THE FIVE SUITORS — TAMBA AND THE PRINCESS — THE SEWING MATCH — BALING OUT THE BROOK — PROVERBS ABOUT WOMEN — AFRICAN AMAZONS — WHERE WOMAN COMMANDS — NO CHANCE FOR ROMANTIC LOVE — PASTORAL LOVE — ABYSSINIAN BEAUTY AND FLIRTATION — GALLA COARSENESS — SOMALI LOVE-AFFAIRS — ARABIC INFLUENCES — TOUAREG CHIVALRY — AN AFRICAN LOVE-LETTER — ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN LOVE — PERSONAL CHARMS OF AUSTRALIANS — CRUEL TREATMENT OF WOMEN — WERE SAVAGES CORRUPTED BY WHITES? — ABORIGINAL HORRORS — NAKED AND NOT ASHAMED — IS CIVILIZATION DEMORALIZING? — ABORIGINAL WANTONNESS — LOWER THAN BRUTES — INDIFFERENCE TO CHASTITY — USELESS PRECAUTIONS — SURVIVALS OF PROMISCUITY — ABORIGINAL DEPRAVITY — THE QUESTION OF PROMISCUITY — WHY DO AUSTRALIANS MARRY? — CURIOSITIES OF JEALOUSY — PUGNACIOUS FEMALES — WIFE STEALING — SWAPPING GIRLS — THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELOPEMENTS — CHARMING A WOMAN BY MAGIC — OTHER OBSTACLES TO LOVE — MARRIAGE TABOOS AND "INCEST." — AFFECTION FOR WOMEN AND DOGS — A HORRIBLE CUSTOM — ROMANTIC AFFLICTION — A LOCK OF HAIR — TWO NATIVE STORIES — BARRINGTON'S LOVE-STORY — RISKING LIFE FOR A WOMAN — GERSTAECKER'S LOVE-STORY — LOCAL COLOR IN COURTSHIP — LOVE-LETTERS — ISLAND LOVE ON THE PACIFIC — WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE — BORNEAN CAGED GIRLS — CHARMS OF DYAK WOMEN — DYAK MORALS — NOCTURNAL COURTSHIP — HEAD HUNTERS A-WOOING — FICKLE AND SHALLOW PASSION — DYAK LOVE-SONGS — THE GIRL WITH THE CLEAN FACE — FIJIAN REFINEMENTS — HOW CANNIBALS TREAT WOMEN — FIJIAN MODESTY AND CHASTITY — EMOTIONAL CURIOSITIES — FIJIAN LOVE-POEMS — I — III — SERENADES AND PROPOSALS — SUICIDES AND BACHELORS — SAMOAN TRAITS — COURTSHIP PANTOMIME — TWO SAMOAH LOVE-STORIES — PERSONAL CHARMS OF SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS — TAHITIANS AND THEIR WHITE VISITORS — HEARTLESS TREATMENT OF WOMEN — TWO STORIES OF TAHITIAN INFATUATION — CAPTAIN COOK ON TAHITIAN LOVE — WERE THE TONGANS CIVILIZED? — LOVE OF SCENERY — A CANNIBAL BARGAIN — THE HANDSOME CHIEFS — HONEYMOON IN A CAVE — A HAWAIIAN CAVE-STORY — IS THIS ROMANTIC LOVE? — VAGARIES OF HAWAIIAN FONDNESS — HAWAIIAN MORALS — THE HELEN OF HAWAII — INTERCEPTED LOVE-LETTERS — MAORIS OF NEW ZEALAND — THE MAIDEN OF ROTORUA — THE MAN ON THE TREE — LOVE IN A FORTRESS — STRATAGEM OF AN ELOPEMENT — MAORI LOVE-POEMS — THE WOOING-HOUSE — LIBERTY OF CHOICE AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN — MAORI MORALS AND CAPACITY FOR LOVE — HOW AMERICAN INDIANS LOVE — THE RED LOVER — THE FOAM WOMAN — THE HUMPBACK MAGICIAN — THE BUFFALO KING — THE HAUNTED GROVE — THE GIRL AND THE SCALP — A CHIPPEWA LOVE-SONG — HOW "INDIAN STORIES" ARE WRITTEN — REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE — DECEPTIVE MODESTY — WERE INDIANS CORRUPTED BY WHITES? — THE NOBLE RED MAN — APPARENT EXCEPTIONS — INTIMIDATING CALIFORNIA SQUAWS — GOING A-CALUMETING — SQUAWS AND PERSONAL BEAUTY — ARE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS GALLANT? — SOUTH AMERICAN GALLANTRY — HOW INDIANS ADORE SQUAWS — CHOOSING A HUSBAND — COMPULSORY "FREE CHOICE" — A BRITISH COLUMBIA STORY — THE DANGER OF COQUETRY — THE GIRL MARKET — OTHER WAYS OF THWARTING FREE CHOICE — CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN EXAMPLES — WHY INDIANS ELOPE — SUICIDE AND LOVE — LOVE-CHARMS — CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP — PANTOMIMIC LOVE-MAKING — HONEYMOON — MUSIC IN INDIAN COURTSHIP — INDIAN LOVE-POEMS — MORE LOVE-STORIES — "WHITE MAN TOO MUCH LIE" — THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS — VERDICT: NO ROMANTIC LOVE — THE UNLOVING ESKIMO — INDIA—WILD TRIBES AND TEMPLE GIRLS — "WHOLE TRACTS OF FEELING UNKNOWN TO THEM" — PRACTICAL PROMISCUITY — "MARVELLOUSLY PRETTY AND ROMANTIC" — LIBERTY OF CHOICE — SCALPS AND FIELD-MICE — A TOPSY-TURVY CUSTOM — PAHÁRIA LADS AND LASSES — CHILD MURDER AND CHILD MARRIAGE — MONSTROUS PARENTAL SELFISHNESS — HOW HINDOO GIRLS ARE DISPOSED OF — HINDOOS FAR BELOW BRUTES — CONTEMPT IN PLACE OF LOVE — WIDOWS AND THEIR TORMENTORS — HINDOO DEPRAVITY — TEMPLE GIRLS — AN INDIAN ASPASIA — SYMPTOMS OF FEMININE LOVE — SYMPTOMS OF MASCULINE LOVE — LYRICS AND DRAMAS — I. THE STORY OF SAKUNTALA — II. THE STORY OF URVASI — III. MALAVIKA AND AGNIMITRA — IV. THE STORY OF SAVITRI — V. NALA AND DAMAYANTI — ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS — THE HINDOO GOD OF LOVE — DYING FOR LOVE — WHAT HINDOO POETS ADMIRE IN WOMEN — THE OLD STORY OF SELFISHNESS — BAYADÈRES AND PRINCESSES AS HEROINES — VOLUNTARY UNIONS NOT RESPECTABLE — DOES THE BIBLE IGNORE ROMANTIC LOVE? — THE STORY OF JACOB AND RACHEL — THE COURTING OF REBEKAH — HOW RUTH COURTED BOAZ — NO SYMPATHY OR SENTIMENT — A MASCULINE IDEAL OF WOMANHOOD — NOT THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF LOVE — UNCHIVALROUS SLAUGHTER OF WOMEN — FOUR MORE BIBLE STORIES — ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE — THE SONG OF SONGS — GREEK LOVE-STORIES AND POEMS — CHAMPIONS OF GREEK LOVE — GLADSTONE ON THE WOMEN OF HOMER — ACHILLES AS A LOVER — ODYSSEUS, LIBERTINE AND RUFFIAN — WAS PENELOPE A MODEL WIFE? — HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE — BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF GREEK WOMEN — LOVE IN SAPPHO'S POEMS — MASCULINE MINDS IN FEMALE BODIES — ANACREON AND OTHERS — WOMAN AND LOVE IN AESCHYLUS — WOMAN AND LOVE IN SOPHOCLES — WOMAN AND LOVE IN EURIPIDES — ROMANTIC LOVE, GREEK STYLE — PLATONIC LOVE OF WOMEN — SPARTAN OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOVE — AMAZONIAN IDEAL OF GREEK WOMANHOOD — ATHENIAN ORIENTALISM — LITERATURE AND LIFE — GREEK LOVE IN AFRICA — ALEXANDRIAN CHIVALRY. — THE NEW COMEDY — THEOCRITUS AND CALLIMACHUS — MEDEA AND JASON — POETS AND HETAIRAI. — SHORT STORIES — GREEK ROMANCES — DAPHNIS AND CHLOE — HERO AND LEANDER — CUPID AND PSYCHE — UTILITY AND FUTURE OF LOVE — FOOTNOTES:
3. 3.BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS — INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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