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fested by man the term "male sexual selection" which he put in 

 contrast with sexual selection proper as described by Darwin, and 

 which is female sexual selection. This last he claimed was in turn 

 due to natural selection, and the chivalrous deportment of male 

 animals towards the females, which alone enabled the latter to 

 select, had resulted from the natural selection of those species dis- 

 playing it most by the inevitable extermination of those that sought 

 gratification by force after the manner of uncivilized man. He 

 regarded male sexual selection as a purely psychological phenome- 

 non, and due to the influence of the mind in bringing about 

 changes in the sexual habits of the human female. Both sexes 

 becoming rational through the development of the brain, the males 

 learned by various manifestations of cunning to influence the 

 females in the direction of overcoming the apathies and aversions 

 which nature gives her as a protection to her sex. Man appealed 

 to woman's imagination and to her reason, faculties wanting in 

 the lower animals ; through appeals to her imagination he was 

 gradually able to excite sexual feeling in her at times when pure 

 instinct forbade it ; through appeals to her reason he was able to 

 secure submission at such times in exchange for other favors which 

 he could confer and of which she in her subject state stood in great 

 need. Even sexual caste, and the reverence of the women for the 

 men by which the latter further secure the submission of the former 

 at unnatural periods, is possible only to beings with developed 

 mental faculties. In these and other ways a complete revolution in 

 the sexual nature of woman had been produced. It must have 

 taken place as gradually as cerebral development itself, otherwise 

 adaptation would have been impossible. By it. men, instead of 

 being chosen by women, became the choosers of their wives, and 

 female, had been converted into male sexual selection. Remark- 

 able morphological changes had been the result, and just as in ani- 

 mals under female sexual selection male beauty had been produced, 

 so in man under male selection female beauty had become predom- 

 inant. He remarked upon the scarcity of scientific data on this 



