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Stopes, Marie. “Married Love.”

Tansley, ’20. “The New Psychology.” London, 1920.

Vincent, Swale, ’21. “Internal Secretion and the Ductless Gland.” (2nd Ed.). London, 1921.

Voronoff, S., ’23. “Greffes Testiculaires.” Paris, 1923.

FOOTNOTES:

Read before the British Society for Sex Psychology, October 1922.

See East and Jones, ’19.

See Huxley, ’23.

See Howard, ’20; Carr-Saunders, ’22.

See Goldschmidt, ’23; Morgan, ’19; Doncaster, ’14.

See Steinach, ’20; summary in Lipschütz, ’19; Voronoff, ’23.

See Carr-Saunders, ’22, ch. v, and M. Stopes.

See Lipschütz, ’19; Goldschmidt, ’23.

See Selous, ’02; Huxley, 14.

See Blair Bell, ’16.

See Vincent, ’21; Harrow, ’23.

Crew, ’23.

See Rivers, ’20, chs. iv, xviii.

Rivers, ’20, p. 158.

PHILOSOPHIC ANTS:

A BIOLOGIC FANTASY

PHILOSOPHIC----ANTS?

Amœba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!--Yet beware of pride. All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook....

The Worm can crawl--but has no eyes to look: The Jelly-fish can swim--but lacks a bride: The Fly’s a very Ass personified: And speech is absent even from the Rook.

The Ant herself cannot philosophize-- While Man does that, and sees, and keeps a wife, And flies, and talks, and is extremely wise.... Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet’s youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

PHILOSOPHIC ANTS:

A BIOLOGIC FANTASY

“Incomprehensibility; that’s what I say.”--LEWIS CARROLL (amended).

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