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boy, and ran away with her. She was finally returned to her 
mother, who could do nothing with her, and was forced to 
allow her to resume the name of Sandor and to put on boy’s 
clothes. She accompanied her father on long journeys, always 
as a young gentleman; she became a roué, frequenting brothels 
and cafés and often becoming intoxicated. All of her sports 
were masculine; so were her tastes and so were her desires. 
She had many love affairs with women, always skillfully hid- 
ing the fact that she herself wasa woman. She even carried 
her masquerade so far as to enter into matrimony with the 
daughter of a distinguished official and to live with her for 
some time before the imposition was discovered. The woman 
whom Sandor married is described as being “ a girl of incredi- 
ble simplicity and innocence;” in sooth,she must have been ! 
Notwithstanding this woman’s passion for those of her own 
sex, she distinctly states that in her thirteenth year she experi- 
enced normal sexual desire. Her environments, however, had 
been those of a male instead of a female, consequently her 
psychical weakness, occasioned by degeneration inherited from 
an eccentric father, turned her into the gulph of viraginity, 
from which she at last emerged, a victim of complete gynandry. 
I have given this instance more prominence than it really de- 
serves, simply because I wish to call attention to the fact that 
environment is one of the great factors in evolutionary devel- 
opment. 
Many women of to-day, who are in favor of female suffrage, 
are influenced by a single idea; they have some great reform 
in view, such as the establishment of universal temperance, or 
the elevation of social morals. Suffrage in its entirety, that 
suffrage which will give them a share in the government, is 
not desired by them; they do not belong to the class of vira- 
gints, unsexed individuals, whose main object is the establish- 
ment of a matriarchate. Woman is a creature of the emotions, 
of impulses, of sentiment, and of feeling; in her the logical 
faculty is subordinate. She is influenced by the object im- 
mediately in view, and does not hesitate to form a judgment 
which is based on no other grounds save those of intuition. 
Logical men look beyond the immediate effects of an action 
