Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-01
: Thursday Morning, Dec. I, 1881.

WHAT A BUILD F'ftENCHn1AN VH1NkASs
 M. Delauney, bold French saoGzt, has been studying woman to determine her in tellectual status, which he maintains to be in- ferior to that of man. He intimat s that as sentimental pretensions'' are now made the basis of political movement it is necessary to deal with the subject scientifically And he deals with it in manner that is both sci entifc and interesting.
 He finds that the nutritive phenomena in birds and mammals, including the human species, are more intensive in the male than in the female. The blood is denser, redder and contains more red globules and hemi- globine and less water. Man eats more than woman. The pulmonary capacity of wc- man is pint less than that of man of the same size. A man absorbs more oxygen than woman. His temperature is higher. The pressure of his blood is stronger in tl1e~ cir culation- The relative weight of the skele- ton to the total weight of the bodyis less with woman. The male individual is always larger than the female. Woman is also light CT than man, though she often appears larger on account of the greater development of her adipose system. The foot of woman is flat ter and less arched than that of man, and her voice is an octave higher. The muscular system of the male is better developed and more vigorous than that of the female. The movements of men are more precise than those of woman, which explains why men make the best pianists.
 The skull of the male is more Yoluminous than that of the female. The brain of the male is heavier than that of the female, in ounces. And, Oh horrors Diagrams of the feminine brains of different races show that even in the most intelligent populations, ''as among contemporary Parisians," the skulls of a notable proportion of women more near Iy approach the volume of the skulls of cer- tain gorillas than that of the better devel- oped skulls of the male sex. According to Professor Wagner, the brain of 8 woman as whole is always in 8 more or less embryonic condition. She also buttons her clothes ''eentripetally, which is a sign of mental in- feriority. Man buttons his ''centrifugally'
 M. Delauney declares that the male is more intelligent than the female in all the superior species. Trainers of trick-dogs pre- fer males. Regarding the human species, all known systems of legislation recognize an intellectual inferiority of the female sex to the male, and treat woman as a minor not able to take care of herself, and needing guide and tutor. The allotment of this posi- tion to woman has been determined chiefly by her levity and frivolity, and the Roman law constantly invokes tSrGgizitGtem serus in justification of the statutes. The partisans of equality meet this fact by alleging that the avs have sacrificed woman because they were made by men. Moralists have also no ticed that women are merrier, more change able, and more capricious than men; they are likewise more needless and less circum- spect. All philosophers and moralists admit that women are more superstitious, more prepossessed more initiative, and more ad dicted to routine, more talkative, and more timid than men. Some men of science also hold that swomen are less intelligent than men. Broca says they are a little less so. Darwin remarks that men go further than women in all that they undertake where pro found thought, reason, imagination, or the application of the senses and the hands are concerned, and that if we should draw up list of the dozen men and 8 similar list of the dozen women most distinguished in poetry, painting, sculpture, science and philosophy, the two lists would bear no comparison. We might also cite the opinion of manufacturers and merchants who, employing both sexes have been able to compare their faculties. All those whom we have consulted tuink wo- men are more assiduous but less intelligent than men,
 M Delaney admits that woman is more devout and charitable than man, but consid CTS her about a century behind in the evolu- ton of tastes and ideas. He does not think that her physical and intellectual inferiority is consequence of her muscles and brain being less exercised than those of man, and says, with Professor Bischoff, of Munich, that women have suffered no other hin drances to the exercise and evolution of their brains and their intellect than those that are derived from their constitution and their faculties of development" And he adds: 1.-The preeminence of man over woman, which is a product of the evolution of indi- viduals and races, is rather increased by in- struction, the effect of which, far from re- establishing the equality of the sexes, is to assure defnitively the supremacy of man."
 We remind the ladies among our readers that we are not responsible for any of the assertions of M. Delauney concerning them. He lives, we believe, in Paris, and all an- swers to the above should be addressed to him.