But from the great voluntary center in the man pass unknowable communications and unreliable nourishment of the stream of manly blood, rays which we cannot see, and which so far we have refused to know, but none the less essential, quickening dark rays which pass from the great dark abdominal life-center in the father to the corresponding center in the child.

And these rays, these vibrations, are not like the mother-vibrations.

Far, far from it.

They do not need the actual contact, the handling and the caressing.

On the contrary, the true male instinct is to avoid physical contact with a baby.