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philosophy of sex. The feminists, he says, 

 " recognize no mascuhne or feminine ' spheres,' 

 and . . . propose to identify absolutely the 

 conditions of the sexes." So, while George 

 seems to think much more highly of women 

 than does Weininger, their philosophies come 

 together, for quite different reasons, on the 

 practical procedure of disregarding reproduction 

 and letting the race go hang (lo, p. 345). Wein- 

 inger seems to recognize the dual basis for sex ; 

 George evidently does not quite follow him. 

 Both entirely misconceived the real issues 

 involved, as well as the kind of evidence required 

 to settle them, as we shall see later in discussing 

 adaptation and specialization. 



Dr Blair Bell (14, 15) has collected a mass 

 of evidence on intersexes in the human species. 

 This includes his own surgical and other cases, 

 as well as many treated by his colleagues, and 

 a very considerable review of the medical 

 literature. He not only believes in degrees 

 of femininity in women, but has worked out 

 classifications which he claims to have found of 

 great practical value in surgery (14, pp. 166-7). 

 As noted above. Riddle discovered that his 

 more feminine female pigeons were often killed 

 by a dose of testicular extract which was prac- 

 tically harmless to a partially masculinized 

 female. Sex in the human species being a 

 matter of all the glands organized into a complex. 



