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The result is an excessive development of fat. The same is 

 done to the singers in certain religious corporations. These 

 unfortunates are castrated in early youth, in order that they 

 may retain their high boyish voices. In consequence of this 

 mutilation of the genitals, the larynx remains in its youth- 

 ful stage of development. The muscular tissues of the body 

 remain at the same time weakly developed, while below the 

 skin an abundance of fat accumulates. But this mutilation 

 also powerfully reacts upon the development of the nervous 

 system, the energy of the will, etc., and it is well known that 

 human castrates, or eunuchs, as well as castrated animals, are 

 utterly deficient in the special psychical character which 

 distinguishes the male sex. Man is a man, both in body 

 and soul, solely through his male generative glands. 



These most important and influential correlations between 

 the sexual organs and the other parts of the body, especially 

 the brain, are found equally in both sexes. This might be 

 expected even a priori, because in most animals the two 

 kinds of organs develop themselves from the same foun- 

 dation, and at the beginning are not different. In man, as 

 in the rest of the vertebrate animals, the male and female 

 organs in the original state of the germ are entirely the 

 same, and the differences of the two sexes only gradually 

 arise in the course of embryonic development (in man, in the 

 ninth week of embryonic life), by one and the same gland 

 developing in the female as the ovary, and in the male as 

 the testicle. Every change of the female ovary, therefore, 

 has a no less important reaction upon the whole female 

 organism than every change of the testicle has upon the male 

 organism. Virchow has expressed the importance of this 

 correlation in his admirable essay on " Das Weib und die 



