If the dieting of a woman in the way we recommend is practicable and of definite effect upon the development of the future sex, we arrive at a conclusion which may be summed up as follows:--If a woman be dieted according to our method, she can reach a stage in which she becomes sexually superior to the man, and her offspring will then be male, in accordance with the law of the cross-heredity of sex. Transcriber’s Notes: --Text in italics is enclosed in underscores ( _italics_ ). --Subscripted text is enclosed in braces ( {subscripted character(s)} ). --Obvious punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. --Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. --Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. --The Chapter headers for Chapters I, II and III were misprinted as Chapters I, III, and IV (respectively). Subsequent printings have corrected the error, and have been adjusted here. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Schenk's Theory: The Determination of Sex, by Samuel Leopold Schenk