PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE 



nevertheless quite sensible and quite apparent. This 

 similitude in difference has struck philosophers as well as 

 anatomists in all ages from the logical insinuations of 

 Aristotle to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's theory of analogies. 

 Galien had already noted certain analogies, more or less 

 exact: greater labia, and foreskin, ovaries and testicles, 

 scrotum and ma trice. He says, textually: "All parts of 

 man are found in woman; there is but one point of 

 difference, woman's parts are interior, man's exterior, 

 parting from the perineal region. Imagine those which 

 first present themselves to mind, no matter which, unfold 

 woman's or fold man's inward and you will find either a 

 replica of the other. Suppose first man's organs pushed 

 into him and extending interiorly between the rectum 

 and the vessie; in this supposition the scrotum would 

 occupy the place of the matrice, with the testicles 

 placed at each side of the exterior orifice. The prong 

 of the male would become the throat of the cavity thus 

 produced, and the skin of the prong's extremity, called 

 the foreskin would form the vagina. Suppose, inversely, 

 that the matrice should turn inside out and fall outside, 

 would not its testicles (ovaries) of necessity, find them- 

 selves inside its cavity and would not it envelop them 

 as a scrotum? Would not the throat, hidden up to the 

 perineum, become the male member, and the vagina, 

 which is but a cutaneous appendix of the throat, the 

 foreskin?" This is the passage which Diderot has trans- 

 posed and put au courant with science in his Reve 

 d'Alembert. This page of literary anatomy retains its 

 expressive value: "Woman has all man's parts, the 

 sole difference is like that between a purse hanging out- 

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