nd Hulda Meister settled in Lindheim, a
village in Germany near the Taunus, a spot to which the novelist
seems to have been attached because in the grounds of his little
estate was a haunted and ruined tower associated with a tragic
medieval episode. Here, after many legal delays, Sacher-Masoch
was able to render his union with Hulda Meister legitimate; here
two children were in due course born, and here the novelist spent
the remaining years of his life in comparative peace. At first,
as is usual, treated with suspicion by the peasants,
Sacher-Masoch gradually acquired great influence over them; he
became a kind of Tolstoy in the rural life around him, the friend
and confidant of all the villagers (something of Tolstoy's
communism is also, it appears, to be seen in the books he wrote
at this time), while the theatrical performances which he
inaugurated, and in which his wife took an active part, spread
the fame of the household in many neighboring villages. Meanwhile
his health began to break up; a visit to Nauheim in 1894 was of
no benefit, and he died March 9, 1895.

A careful consideration of the phenomena of sadism and masochism may be
said to lead us to the conclusion that there is no real line of
demarcation. Even De Sade himself was not a pure sadist, as Bloch's
careful definition is alone sufficient to indicate; it might even be
argued that De Sade was really a masochist; the investigation of histories
of sadism and masochism, even those given by Krafft-Ebing (as, indeed,
Colin Scott and Fere have already pointed out), constantly reveals traces
of both groups of phenomena in the same individual. They cannot,
therefore, be regarded as opposed manifestations. This has been felt by
some writers, who have, in consequence, proposed other names more clearly
indicating the relationship of the phenomena. Fere speaks of sexual
algophily[98]; he only applies the term to masochism; it might equally
well be applied to sadism. Schrenck-Notzing, to cover both sadism and
masochism, has invented the term algolagnia (algos, pain, and lagnos
sexually excited), and calls the former active, the latter passive,
algolagnia.[99] Eulenburg has also emphasized the close connection between
these groups of perverted sexual manifestations, and has adopted the same
terms, adding the further group of ideal (illusionary) algolagnia, to
cover the cases in which the mere autos