Woman and Marriage Author:Margaret Stephens Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS "The passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn, but none witho... more »ut their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit they are charged to defend. The passions of which the end is the continuance of the race, the indignation which is to arm it against injustice or strengthen it to resist wanton injury, and the fear which lies at the root of prudence, reverence, and awe, are all honorable and beautiful so long as man is regarded in his relations to the existing world."—Rusk.in. There are three cavities contained in that part of the human body known as the trunk. 1i) The upper—the chest or thorax, containing the lungs and heart. (2) The middle—the abdomen, containing the stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and spleen. (3) The lower—the pelvis, strongly made of bone, and able to support the weight of the trunk. Here are situated the bladder, rectum, and most of the generative organs. The female pelvis differs from the male in being of less depth, with lighter and slenderer bones. Also it is of greater width, so as to allow of the growth and birth of a baby, so as to act as a mother's first cradle for her children. The male organs of generation consist of the testicles, the vas deferens, the seminal vesicles, the prostate gland, the penis, and various appendages. Most of these are in pairs, one on each side of the central line of the body. The testicles are kidney- shaped glands, enveloped in a skin called the scrotum. Their function is to secrete the semen, an albuminous, viscid fluid which, under a microscope, can be seen to contain myriads of rapidly moving elongated bodies known as spermatozoa, any single one of which, ...« less