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times opposite ones exhibited. He really 

 seems interested in observing, that old 

 women sometimes become bearded, and 

 that the old hen pheasant forms and displays 

 the beautiful plumage of the male bird. 



In some late works on Physiology, I find 

 it suggested, that the formation of one part 

 or organ, creates a necessity for the forma- 

 tion of another ; and therefore it happens, 

 I presume, according to this mode of rea- 

 soning, that men become bearded and stags 

 wear horns. Yet these writers have not 

 suggested any reason for the occasional ex- 

 hibition of the delusive signs to which I 

 have been referring, and I suspect that the 

 consideration of this subject in general, has 

 been omitted, in drawing such conclusions 

 as I have just referred to. 



According to Mr. Hunter's notions of 

 life, those occurrences which denote the 

 sexual character are to be considered as 

 the effects of sympathies existing between 

 remote parts of the body ; which, like 

 other instances of sympathy, are liable to 



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