The stories of Senlis, of Vareddes, of Gerbéviller which I have specially chosen, as free from that element of sexual horror which repels many sensitive people from even trying to realise what has happened in this war, are evidencesone must insist againof a national mind and quality, with which civilised Europe and civilised America can make no truce.

Beginning with the traits and qualities which distinguish the sexes, grouped as the secondary sex characters, he showed that they are correlated with the special sexual function of the species in which they occur.

Keith is also of the opinion that "the sexual differentiation, the robust manifestations of the male characters, is more emphatic in the Caucasian than in either the Mongol or Negro racial types ... in certain negro types, especially in Nilotic tribes, with their long stork-like legs, we seem to have a manifestation of abeyance in the action of the interstitial glands."

It had all been a kind of sexual mirage, a passion that had nothing to do with who she was.

The rôle of Faustthat of a man pulled irresistibly by sexual passion, yet constantly tormented by his conscienceis repulsive, but very human.

To them, twenty-five years before, sexual sin had never been imputed as more than a fault.

It would require hundreds of generations in which the pea-hens generally concurred in the same view before sexual selection could effect the desired alteration.

Together with infertility is combined some degree of sexual indifference, or when passion is shown, it is not unfrequently for some specimen of a coarser type.

It is antagonistic to sexual affection, and the result is a diminution of offspring.

The child's sexual life.

Freud on sleep and sexual dreams.

R107211. SEE Spears, Raymond S. Homo-sexual life.

Man's sexual life.

SEE Fielding, William J. Sexual obsessions of saints and mystics.

The case for and against sexual sterilization.

The fact that a man lives in the year 1900 makes it no more self-evident that he should be capable of sexual affection than the fact that a man lived seven centuries before Christ makes it self-evident that he could not love affectionately.

The cause of this discrepancy lies not in these races themselves, but in the inaccurate use of words, and the different standards of the writers, some accepting the rubbing of noses or other sexual caresses as evidence of "affection," while others take any acts indicating fondness, attachment, or a suicidal impulse as signs of it.

Morgan, the great authority on the Iroquoisthe most intelligent of North American Indianslived long enough among them to realize vaguely that there must be a difference between sexual attachment before and after marriage, and that the latter is an earlier phenomenon in human evolution.

Sexual taboos.

Their national addiction to obscene practices and conversation proves an insuperable obstacle to the growth of refined sexual feelings.

PREVENTION OF FREE CHOICE One of the unfortunate consequences of Darwin's theory of sexual selection was that it made him assume that "in utterly barbarous tribes the women have more power in choosing, rejecting, and tempting their lovers, or of afterward exchanging their husbands than might have been expected.

It by no means follows, however, that where choice is permitted to girls, as with the Dyaks, real love follows as a matter of course; for it may be prevented, as it is in the case of these Dyaks, by their sensuality, coarseness, and general emotional shallowness and sexual frivolity.

SEXUAL TABOOS If a law were passed compelling every man living in Rochester, N.Y., who wanted a wife to get her outside of that city, in Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica, or some other place, it would be considered an outrageous restriction of free choice, calculated to diminish greatly the chances of love-matches based on intimate acquaintance.

" While exogamy thwarts love by minimizing the chances of intimate acquaintance and genuine courtship, there is another form of sexual taboo which conversely and designedly frustrates the tendency of intimate acquaintance to ripen into passion and love.

Indeed, so strong, among the Arabs, is the instinct of ethnical isolation that, as a traveller relates, at Djidda, where sexual morality is held in little respect, a Bedouin woman may yield herself for money to a Turk or European, but would think herself forever dishonored if she were joined to him in lawful wedlock.