“For there are some eunuchs which were so born from their mother’s womb, and there are some eunuchs which were made eunuchs of men:  and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.  He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

He decided that he was inspired to spread the gospel of castration.  A sect was founded who thought that surgery was the easiest way to enter the gates of Paradise, and they multiplied and fructified.  The sect exists today, and some of the most interesting studies of the internal secretion of the interstitial glands have been made among them.

Related to acquired eunuchism is the condition of eunuchoidism, the eunuchs which were so born from their mother’s womb.  Baron Larey, the great surgeon of Napoleon’s armies, was their first painter.  He was the only altruist Bonaparte said he had ever met in his life.  He portrayed a group of soldiers with peculiarly high-pitched voices, smooth and hairless skins, and atrophied generative organs.  A somewhat similar picture is evolved in certain types of insufficiency of the pituitary gland.  Features of the picture are exhibited with disturbances of the other internal secretory glands also, like the thymus.

But a host of experiments and data prove the interstitial glands to be the direct controllers of elementary sexuality and the specific sex traits of male and female.  Beginning with Berthold back in the first half of the nineteenth century, who studied the fowl, a number of observations have been made on the effects of excision, translocation and transplantation of these glands.

The results of the experiments and observations can be summed up as follows:  if the male individual is castrated before puberty, that is, before the advent of the sexual life, secondary sex qualities do not develop.  In males, the generative organs do not grow, hair on the face does not appear, hair elsewhere on the body remains generally scanty, the voice continues as high-pitched as the child’s, there is more or less muscle weakness, obesity, and mental sluggishness.  In other words, we have an effeminate man, technically a eunuch.  In the castrated female, the pelvis does not grow to the normal feminine size, the breasts do not swell as they should, more or less hair comes out on the face, the voice is low-pitched, and tends to be rather husky, the legs are longer, and again, the mentality is dulled.  That is, a masculine sort of woman is produced.

In short, the castrated male takes on a feminine type, and the castrated female, a male type.  In either case there is also an infantilism, a retention of the infantile mental traits, a lack of development of the adult mental attitudes and reactions.  Now, if in the castrated male is transplanted an ovary, the positive characteristics of the female are evoked, such as enlarged mammary glands, and a tendency to secretion of milk.  Experiments have also been