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"The accomplishment of no other function," Hyrtl remarks, "is so intimately connected with the mind and yet so independent of it." The process is still, however, but imperfectly understood; see Art. "Fécondation," by Ed. Retterer, in Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie, vol. vi, 1905.

Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 : Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy

In the future, without doubt, we shall learn to know more precisely a process which has been so supremely important in the life of man and of his ancestors. See, e.g., Art. "Erection," by Retterer, in Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie, vol. v. Guibaut, Traité Clinique des Maladies des Femmes, p. 242.

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