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are any other class of people. Especially is this true in the 
case of those who suffer from psychical atavism. The woman 
of to-day, who believes in and inculcates the doctrines of 
matriarchy, doctrines which have been, as far as the civilized 
world is concerned, thrown aside and abandoned these many 
hundred years, is as much the victim of psychic atavism as 
was Alice Mitchell who slew Freda Ward in Memphis several - 
years ago, and who was justly declared a viragint by the court 
that tried her. Without entering into the truthfulness or 
falseness of the theory advanced by me some time ago (vide 
N. Y. Medical Record, September, 1893: “ Effemination and 
Viraginity”) in regard to the primal cause of psychic herma- 
phroditism, which I attributed and do still attribute to psychic 
atavism, I think that I am perfectly safe in asserting that every 
woman who has been at all prominent in advancing the cause 
of equal rights in its entirety, has either given evidences of 
masculo-feminity (viraginity), or has shown, conclusively, that 
she was the victim of psycho-sexual aberrancy. Moreover, the 
histories of every viragint of any note in the history of the 
world, show that they were either physically or psychically 
degenerate, or both. Jeanne d’Arc was the’ victim of hystero- 
epilepsy, while Catharine the Great was a dipsomaniac and a 
creature of unbounded and inordinate sensuality. Massalina, 
the depraved wife of Claudius, a woman of masculine type 
whose very form embodied and shadowed forth the regnant 
idea of her mind—absolute and utter rulership—was a woman 
of such gross carnality that her lecherous conduct shocked 
even the depraved courtiers of her lewd and salacious court. 
The side-lights of history, as Douglas Campbell has so cleverly 
pointed out in his “Puritan in Holland, England and 
America,” declares that there is every reason to believe that 
the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth of England, was not such a pure 
and unspotted virgin as her admirers make her out to be. Sir 
Robert Cecil says of her that “she was more man than woman,” 
while history shows conclusively that she was a pronounced 
viragint, with a slight tendency toward megalomania. In a 
recent letter to me, Mr. Geo. H. Yeaman, ex-Minister to Den- 
mard, writes as follows: “ Whether it be the relation of cause 
