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He was active, practical and eminently successful. His wife re- 

 calls Florence Nightingale, in face, figure and conduct (people 

 who are built alike as regards their internal secretions are those 

 whom we recognize as similar physically and psychically). She, 

 too, was a pituito-adrenal, and in so far resembled her husband. 

 But as in a woman ante-pituitary and adrenal superiority make 

 for masculinity, she must be classed as a masculinoid type ot 

 woman. She was socially aggressive, and took part in the revo- 

 lutionary movement of her time in Ireland. Thus we find that 

 Oscar Wilde was the result of a mating of internal secretions 

 acting in the same direction. The process might be compared 

 to parthenogenesis. 



It is on record that when enceinte his mother often expressed 

 the wish that her child be a girl. When a boy was born, she 



- immensely disappointed. To compensate for her disappoint- 

 ment, she brought him up a good deal like a little girl. She had 

 him dressed in girls' clothes at an age when most boys are violent 

 destroyers of clothing. She would hang massive jewelry upon 

 him, for the delight of playing with the resultant stage picture 

 as a satisfaction for her discontented desires. In the light of 

 modern psychology, and our formulization of her endocrine 

 status, we must put down her conduct to a suppressed homo- 

 sexual craving. Had her son been built along the lines of strong 

 emphatic masculinity, her influence, though vicious, would pr 

 ably have found no congenial soil, and would have died out alto- 



her after his contacts with the outer world, beginning with 

 school. No matter how she would have conditioned his vege- 



ve system temporarily, his internal secretions, rel 'hen 



from compression, would have asserted the; 

 mined his fate differently. However, it is quite I if 



Rich h: < >scar Wilde. 



disciple of Walt ndelaire, would b yed 



I of the (o be horn. I mean lli.tt thru we would I 

 have hi Wilde, but another nunou- 



. who also might have home I 



oot to be. 'I ilar assortment of endoi 



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rich we must clu the thymooentric (thymut- 



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