Little Ellie in her smile Chooses, 'I will have a lover Riding on a steed of steeds: He shall love me without guile, . . . . . And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath: And the lute he plays upon Shall strike ladies into trouble, As his sword strikes men to death.' . . . . . And later, little Ellie imagines her lover kneeling at her knee to tell her-- 'I am a duke's eldest son, Thousand serfs do call me master, But, O love, I love but _thee_!'" --TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. [36] Mantegaaza, _Fisiologia del Amore_. [37] "Precocite et Impuissance Sexuelle," _Annales des Maladies des Organes Genito-Urinaires_, vol. i. No. 2, 1906. [38] By _masturbation_ or _onanism_ I understand the artificial mechanical stimulation of the genital organs. Etymologically and strictly, onanism denotes coitus interruptus (Gen. xxxviii. 9); masturbation (manustupration), artificial stimulation of the genital organs with the hand. [39] _Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie_, p. 41, Leipzig, 1905. For reference to English translation, see footnote to p. 14. [40] _Dreissig Jahre Praxis_, Part I. p. 306, Vienna, 1873. [41] _Nervoese Angstzustaende und ihre Behandlung_, Berlin, 1908. [42] See note to page 3. [43] Translated from the German edition of the _Memoirs of Madame Roland_, Part I., p. 82 _et seq._, Belle-Vue, near Constance, 1844 (_Bibliothek ausgewaehlter Memoiren des XVIII. und XIX. Jahrhunderts_, berausgegeben von F. E. Pipitz and G. Fink). [44] _The Introduction to a Devout Life_, by St. Francis of Sales, published early in the seventeenth century. [45] _Die Spiele der Tiere_ (_The Games of Animals_), Jena, 1895, p. 255 _et seq._ [46] Moll, _Untersuchungen ueber die Libido Sexualis_, Berlin, 1897, p. 374. [47] "Die Entstehung der Geschlechtscharaktere" ("The Origin of the Sexual Characters"), _Archiv fuer Gynaekologie_, Berlin, 1903, vol. lxx. [48] Gall maintained that as a result of castration the development of the cerebellum was hindered, and that this failure of development could be detected by external examination of the occipital region. [49] Jastrowitz, _Einiges ueber das Physiologische und ueber die aussergewoehnlichen Handlungen im Liebesleben der Menschen_ (_Physiological Considerations regarding the Amatory Life of Mankind, and regarding certain unusual Features of that Life_), p. 16 _et seq._, Leipzig, 1904. [50] Ancel et Bouin, "Insuffisance spermatique et Insuffisance diastematique," _La Presse Medicale_, January 13th, 1906. [51] The quotation in the German original, from the German poet Storm, would have lost life and spirit in any translation possible to me. I have therefore replaced it by an appropriate quotation from Longfellow.--TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.