to fear and sooner to trembling and old age; or that woman is an incomplete man who halted at a certain limit of evolution, and that man is an evolved woman —
All these statements are not only outside science but incline toward injury. Of the same kind is the statement that man is more variable than woman, and that the raw materials in the process of evolution are more abundant in man than in her.
Indeed, all these statements are idle nonsense with no trace of truth in them, for a body of scientists carried out an experiment upon seventeen groups, in which they compared the organs of their individual members, and the conclusion they reached was that the female is more variable than the male.
They noticed that the differences in the occurrence of these variations between the two sexes are slight, particularly among individuals of a single species living different lives. From this they deduced that this factor, too, may have formed an origin for those variations, and that some hereditary variations are more manifest in man, just as some are more manifest in woman than in him.
As for the mental differences between the sexes, they have found difficulty in determining them, and they are waiting until sufficient proofs are gathered in their hands to pronounce this determination and declare its characteristics. The source of this difficulty is that some mental traits may be acquired from some external accident, while others are created in man's innate nature.
It used to be said that men's brains are more capable of change and better able to generate and to create, and that women are stronger in constancy and possess a finer and deeper social sense; that women's minds penetrate more readily to soundness and correctness, while man is more capable of discrimination than they; and that women's steadiness arises from their great endurance in patience, the minuteness of their observation, and their pursuit of elaborate, minute details — all of which is expressed by the name of intuition; and that man is more capable of bearing mental effort, keener-sighted for scientific facts, more inclined to join reason with the emotions, and more
desirous of concision, of design, and of the derivation of rules.
Pronouncing such judgments is easier than confessing incapacity, as the saying goes. We thank God that their time has passed and that they do not accord with reality and with the results of investigation. For Helen Thompson conducted an experiment in the high schools and found that boys are more capable of precise movements, this being the result of their training in the use of knives and other tools; but induction established that the girl students' capacity to perform rapid movements of a single pattern or a single class, under the influence of a hidden impulse, is more clearly manifest than in the boys.
In another experiment the girl students showed superiority in distinguishing tones when the fork was struck, this being the result of their early training in playing the piano or other instruments. It then appeared to her that the male student's eye is more sensitive to light and to distinguishing faint rays. But is there not in this an indication that it is the result of the male's living in the open air?
And it was established to her that women are stronger at distinguishing colors. But can it not be said that the source of this power of theirs is abundant practice?
As for what remains of their statements on the mental differences between the sexes, we shall summarize it in the coming issue.
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