The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-03-16
THE BRAIN OF WOMAN.

Sir James Crichton Browne has been liter
viewed by correspondent of the Westminster
Gazette upon the brain of woman. He says:
81 do net say woman's brain is of less
weight than mans brain Therefore, she is his
inferior. Certainly not But do say this,
that there ia difference between the male
and female brain, Just as there is difference
in their body formation. Briefly, there is
mental difference. jlst as there lisa physiolO-
logical difference between the sexes. | should
not deduce from the mental infeliority of
woman, and more than should pronounce
her physiologicaily inferior, because she has
different functions to the man, and does not
possess the same bodily proportions, not the
same strength of muscle. What She lacks in
these directions is fully compensated for by
her greater beauty of form and grace of move
ment: in like manner, although she does not
display so strong reasoning and critical faculty
as man, she eXcells him in quick perception
and intuition.
son an average, woman's brain is five
ounces less than that Of man. All available
evidence points to the conclusion that the
male brain exceeds the ft'maIe brain in weight
in this country to an even greater degree than
has hitherto been believed, and contend that
the smaller size of the female brain is a sexual
distinction. and is not TO be accounted for on
the ground of environment, educ,t "a aud
habits of life
''5ut does quantity necessarily mean
quality?'
''No, it does not, but quantity is the primary
considerst on. A large, massive brain in
dcates great mental power. Compare the
heads of the idiots at the Earlwood Asyl um
with the heads, say, of the Fellows of the
Royal Society, and you will find my theory
demonstrated. LeBon has made an examine
ton ofLhe heads of three classes-:he peasants,
shopkeepers and men of science-and with
the resul that the size of the heads corresponds
to the known intellectual capacity of the
thr"e different classes
"Admtting your conclusion that the male
brain is at least one ounce heavier than that
of the female, it does not strike me as being a
very great dife renee"
as brain tissue" said Sir Crcht IN Browne,
''may mean a great deal. That one ounce
evenly distributed over the surface of the
brain would certainly involve very marked
difference in the mental capacity, but when
you have an extra ounce localized it may be
still more impoltan
81 fear that woman gains in,ell c'ua.ly by
the higher education now in vogue sue will
lose in beauty aud grace, and often in health
too. 1t looks to me like strainiug her faculties
against nature. Woman's personal charms
are her greatestst power; we must not have
these destroyed, and she greatly exces man
in perception, ntu' on and the moral faculty
Among the G arc nation, people dwelling on
a range of hills between the Brahmapootra
and the Soorma Valleys, the women are
supreme. They WOO the men, they control
the affairs of the home aud the nation, proper
ty descends through them, and in everything
they are dominant, but-lote the sequel
they are the very uglest women on the face Of
the EARTH