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 ; a neighbour of the second Intersex.

In the Intellectual Uraniad class, we can include many keenly professional women who quit the sphere of private and domestic life for practical science, higher educational work, or for solider departments of literature; as womenpoets, women-critics, women-novelists, editors, preachers, musicians, painters, architects. A proportion of specially serious-minded women, administrative in commerce and finance are Uraniads in temperament rather than "real" women. Frequently their sexual life accords. Many such women live together, where no other family-ties bind them to a less emancipated life. The intellectual Uraniad faces boldly the clamorous struggles in great literary and commercial commercial capitals of the world. She resorts to the great artistic and educational centers, for aesthetics and for a free life. London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Munich are familiar with her. The Bourses and Wall Street and Capel Court often take note of her. In the bustling United States, many an Uraniad is "the right hand man" of the private-office, counting-room, shop and factory.

In social studies, essays, verse, and fiction the women-writers whose works have unfeminine aspects are endless. They occur especially in Anglo-Saxon, French, German and Scandinavian literatures. The personal or literary type of George Sand has little that is graciously womanish in it, though no feminosexual legend whatever attaches to the authour of "Consuelo." The English novelist George Eliot, though her sexual intimacy with Lewes contradicts her 'unfeminism,' was intellectually more intersexual than really womanly. Her long liaison with Lewes was not robustly sexual-passional on her side: and her marriage to another man (much her junior) later in her life was considerably a step of intellectual and social policy. On the other hand, no