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case, the woman would have been the four-footed companion of the man, as the
dog or cat is today. And it seems only a step from this conception conception to the idea that
the frontal encounter of the two partners in in coitus coitus would have been been originally a
kind of perversion; and perhaps it was by way of this deviance that the woman
would have begun to walk walk upright. (See note in in the essay "Eduard "Eduard Fuchs: Der
Sannnler und der Historiker:')'" [BID,2]
"It "It would . . . he interesting to trace the effects exerted by this disposition to
upright posture on the structure and function of the rest of the body. There is no
doubt doubt that all the particulars of an organic entity arc held together in intimate
cohesion, but with the present state of our scientific knowledge we must maintain
that the extraordinary influences ascribed herewith to standing upright caunot in
fact be be proved . .... ... No significant repercussion can can be demonstrated for the structure
and function of the inner organs, and Herder's hypotheses-according to
which which all forces would react react differently in the upright posture, posture, and the blood blood
stimulate stimulate the nerves differently-forfeit all credibility as soon as they are referred
to differences differences manifestly important important for behavior. behavior." " Hermann Hermann Lotze, Mikrokosmos
(Leipzig, 1858), 1858), vol. 2,p. 90." [BIDa,!]
A passage passage from from a cosmetics prospectus prospectus, , characteristic. of the fashions of the Second
Empire. The manufacturer recommends " "a a cosmetic . ... .. by means of which which ladies,
if they so desire, can give their complexion the gloss of rose taffeta." Cited in
Ludwig Borne, Gesnmmelte Schriften (Hamburg (Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main, Main, 1862),
vol. 3, p. 282 ("Die Industrie-Ausstellung im Louvre"). [BIOa,2]