Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05

highest degree In charming, oewllder-
ing problem.
Not only the outward conformation, but
the anatomical element of each, exhibit
the existence Of such differences in the
highest degree.
The difference in weight and volume in
the osseous tissue, or the osseous frame
work in the physical nature of the sexes,
is on an average at least one-eighth of the
whole in excess in favor of the male.
This, added to an increased density in the
material entering into the structure, and
TO greater concentration of material at
points subject to the greatest strain,
would certainly increase the capabl!1ty OF
the male skeleton as an instrument to pro-
duce and resist force oue-fourth over that
of the female.
The difference in weight and volume in
the muscular tissue in the physical nature
of the sexes, that tissue by means of which
the intellect, through locomotion and
adaptation, is able to feed and clothe the
body, is on an average at least one-fourth
of the whole in excess in favor of the
male.
The difference in weight and volume in
the ntelleotual-nervous tissue, the cere-
Drum, in the physical nature of the sexes,
that tissue which serves as an instrument
or organ through which the thinking or
reasoning faculties of the soul are enabled
to act, is on an average at least one
twelfth of the whole in excess in favor of
the male.
The difference in weight and volume in
the adipose tissue, or fat, in the physical
nature of the sexes, the tissue upon which
the pleasing graceful curve in the outline
of the form the symmetry of the limb and
the regularity and harmony of the fea-
lures chiefly depend, is on an average, be-
tween the ages of sixteen and sixty, at
least one-fourth of the whole in excess in
favor of the female.
All reliable writers on the science of
anatomy perfectly agree on these points.
Now here is group of facts that sci
ence long since placed above the reach of
controversy what | ask are the
logical legitimate differences to be drawn
therefrom
First answer that nature by giving
the physical nature of the male greater
weight and volume of the osseous and
muscular tissues, than what she has given
the physical nature of the female, evident
ly designed the former for field Of ply
steal labor, teeming with greater difficult
ties and severer tasks, and requiring a
greater degree of strength, action and en-
durence, than that for which she designed
the latter.
Second That nature, by giving the
physical nature of the male greater
weight and volume of the intellectual
nervous tissue-the cerebrum, than what
she has given the physical nature of the
female, evidently designed the former for
more lofty and comprehensive intellectual
modes of action than the latter.
Third. That nature by giving the ply
steal nature of the female greater weight
and Volume of the adipose tissue than
what she has given the physical nature OF
the mBle, the tissue that is useless in the
economy of the physical system excepting
as it serves as clothing to the osseous
and muscular tissues, the one upon which
beauty, symmetry and grace chiefly de-
pend, evidently designed the former for a
richer and wider sphere of grace, orna-
ment and beauty than the latter.
Now if these differences are not correct
then lin the name of science) we may
boldly, accuse nature of the act of perfect
folly Of creating organs or capacities with
out endowing them with adequate or pro-
portional functions.
Now, as nature, in her perfect wisdom
and economy never creates an organ or
capacity without endowing it with a
function proportional to its average
| weight and volume in the animal body,
! Ito which it belongs) we may expect &c
/ find, if our conclusions are thus far correct
in the intellectual nature of the sexes,
. "a ny,foI +r
the variations in the physical nature.
IT, on the Interrogation of history and
present experience, diferential elements
are found entering into the constitution
of the intellectual nature of the sexes,
and theselelements are found to correspond
to the varying capacities with which we
have seen Nature has endowed the physi-
cal system, then a double, incontestible
proof will be- afforded that the sexes were
not designed by Nature for the same field
Of action in the function of human life.
! This leads directly to the comparison OF
the intellectual qualities or elements en-
| tering into the constitution of the sexes
| At this point the synthetical method OF
reasoning, the tracing the effect from the
nature of the cause, thus far adopted, will
| be dropped, and the analytical mode sub
stituted. From the effects produced by
the male and female intellect upon each
element in society that pertains to civiliza'
ton and elevation of the race physically
! Intellectually and morally, their nature
and characteristics may be logically in
ferred.
Upon an exhaustive examination, analy
sis and comparison of the effects produced
upon society by the male and female in
telleot, we are forced at every step in The
investigation to the conclusion that Il,
producing causes they are utterly differ
entail in nature.
Human life, from a lofty, comprehen
sive point of view, is seen to be comprised
in two aims or efforts that are materially
subordinate to each other in producing
two results, viz: human happiness and
prosperity, and the perpetuity OF the
species.
To subdue Nature till she shall afford
the elements requisite to be erected into
the social fabric, Home, and to rear these
elements into a fabric possessing in the
highest degree the qualities of fitness
beauty and grace, constitute the two great
aims or efforts that comprise the CRANE
functions of human life. That these con
ditions are found in every civilized nation
no one will venture to deny. Two func
lions are thus found necessary TO the ex
istence of civilized society, the provident
one and the architectural one.
That Nature specially designed the in
telleot of the male as the provident agent
and the intellect of the female as the ar
chitect or builder, the history of all civ
ilized nations, in all ages, as well as tbs
experience of the present, affirm without
a single exception. This may be assumed
with all the certainty of a mathematics
axiom Let us now compare the eharac
ter of the eforts-the provident with The
architectural.
The five great complex elements enter
ing into the fabrication of the social struo
ture, home, which history and experience
affirm that nature designed the intellec
of the male to supply are as follows
First, a form of government to protect so
| ciety from the effect of invasion anC
crime. Second, a systemized dialect o.
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