religion and to what touches the life of the heart; and that man has a stronger sense than woman of the composite sensations that bear upon practical life.

There exist, besides, psychological

differences between the two sexes which there is no room to mention here. But neither of the two sexes is stripped of every quality of the other sex, or of every one of its dispositions.

The summary of the foregoing is that there exist no differences in the aptitudes of the two sexes, man and woman, in facing the matters and affairs of life. The least that may be said is that these differences give woman the ampler portion in the fold of the feelings and emotions and what attaches to them or follows from them, and that man has the larger portion as regards logic and what attaches to it and follows from it. Woman may perhaps have the greater portion of patience and endurance, and man the stronger portion as regards the firmness of the muscular tissues and their elasticity.

To affirm these differences is not such as to secure for either of the two sexes an absolute superiority, or to set one of them in a lower place before the other; nor are these differences such as to narrow or widen the circle of all rights and duties for one sex rather than the other. Nor, again, are they such as to lay down in life divergent or discordant paths for the works of the two sexes in social affairs. But these differences may at times serve the educator, that each sex may take the road toward the per-fection prepared for it according to its aptitudes, so as to be the more productive and fruitful; and at other times the educator may profit from knowing these differences to strengthen, by his craft, the points of weakness in each of the two sexes, so that all the powers of the soul may be brought into proportion so far as possible. And as the educator profits from such study, so too may the student of society profit, in judging how the works may be distributed between the two sexes in the best manner.