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Zelle”” (“Woman and the Cell”), in the following words :— 
“Woman is woman only by her sexual glands; all the 
peculiarities of her body and mind, of her nutrition and her 
nervous activity, the sweet delicacy and roundness of her 
limbs, the peculiar formation of the pelvis, the develop- 
ment of the breasts, the continuance of the high voice, that 
beautiful ornament of hair on her head, with the scarcely 
perceptible soft down on the rest of the skin—then again, 
the depth of feeling, the truth of her direct perceptions, her 
gentleness, devotion, and fidelity—in short, all the feminine 
qualities which we admire and honour in a true woman are 
but a dependence of the ovary. Take this ovary away, and 
the man-woman stands before us—a loathly abortion.” 
The same close correlation between the sexual organs and 
the other parts of the body occurs among plants as generally 
as among animals. If one wishes to obtain an abundance of 
fruit from a garden plant, the growth of the leaves is cur- 
tailed by cutting off some of them. If, on the other hand, 
an ornamental plant with a luxuriance of large and beautiful 
leaves is desired, then the development of the blossoms and 
fruit is prevented by cutting off the flower buds. In both 
cases one system of organs develops at the cost of the others. 
Thus, also, most variations in the formation of leaves in 
wild plants result in corresponding transformations of the 
generative parts or blossoms. The great importance of this 
“compensation of development,” of this “correlation of 
parts,” has been already set forth by Goethe, by Geoffroy St. 
Hilaire, and other nature-philosophers. It rests mainly 
upon the fact that direct or actual adaptation cannot pro- 
duce an important change in a single part of the body, 
- without at the same time affecting the whole organism. 
