"Procreate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jinnosuke figured as Kosaka Jinnai. Here first he came in contact with the law and Aoyama Shu[u]zen. On this failure he betook himself at once to the disguise of his native village; to enter it as quietly as if he never had left it, to find himself the father of a baby girl, Kikujo[u], and to procreate another on his patient wife. But before this second girl, O'Yui, was born Jinnosuke, as the village still knew him, had again disappeared. This was in strict accordance with his principle, of which ...
— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... the supreme impulse of procreation was regarded as a sacred function, to be exercised in the light of scientific knowledge. It was a public rather than a private duty, because it concerned the interests of the race; only valorous and high-spirited men ought to procreate, and it was held that the father should bear the punishments inflicted on the son for faults due to his failure by defects in generation.[23] Moreover, while unions not for the end of procreation were in ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... or defence of those organic beings, during any part of their whole existence, whose organization had been rendered plastic. Moreover, in animals in which the sexes are distinct, there is a sexual struggle, by which the most vigorous, and consequently the best adapted, will oftener procreate their kind. ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin
... previously mentioned that it was thought that semen must rot in order to impregnate. The seed grain is subject to putrefaction in the earth. But we must remember also the impregnating activity of manure if we wish to understand correctly and genetically the association rot—procreate. Putrefaction is one of the forms of corruption ( breaking up) and corruptio unius est generatio alterius (the breaking up of one is the ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer
... from the summit of the mountain to the bottom of the sea, life is opposed to death. God, to conserve the work of His hands, has established this law-that the greatest pleasure of all sentient beings shall be to procreate. ...
— Child of a Century, Complete • Alfred de Musset |
