The herald., 1896-07-24
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UlbSb lalHOUS vi IlDhllSn has
made flerco protest against the higher
education of women. He urges many
reasons against It, but the ono with which
he chiefly seeks to arrest public opinion
before it Is too late ia that this education
will destroy the physical beauty of woman.
His reasoning is SO earnest, so serious
and so scientific that it must forco us to
consider whether we arc not doing wrong
in permitting women to enter into severe
and continuous course Of study. Every
educational institution for women is con-
cerncd in this matter, from tho public
schools Of New York TO the hest Of wom-
ems colleges. In both cnses girls and
women Gro forced to enter into educational
competition with boys and men.
We should rumomber how much is at
stake. Tho beauty Of woman In our
clumsy civilization is the one relief to the
weary eye in world Of ugliness and sor-
didness. This man Of science tells us that
VIC have inaugurated system which will
destroy II.
Shall we exchange the beauty of woman
for o racial Inheritance of nervous degen-
GRAFTON?
Would it not DO sorry translationp
Should wo not make on effort to preserve
those graces Of form which have inspired
tho art Of tho world and alone keep us
from utter absorption in the struggle for
gninp These arc the questions which the
physician nsks.
The process by which mans education
inflicted OH n woman reduces her to ugli-
ness he declares to be very simple and
natural one. 1t consists chiefly in the dis
organization of her nervous system. The
results nro loss Of graceful outlines loss Of
appetite. lines In the face, bad teeth, bad
complexion, short sight and possibly hys
toria, epilepsy and insanity.
There is II growing tendency around us,
says Sir James, to ignore intellectual dis
tinctions between the sexes. The bodily
differences between men and women nre
universal and intimate and involve every
organ and tissue. They extend from the
skin to tho marrow of tho bones, from the
crown Of tho hend-for, according to Brooa,
the female craniuni is loss elevated than
that of tho male-to the solo of the foot,
for, according to Delannay woman has
plantar arch flatter than that of man,
which perhaps accounts for her partiality
for high hceled boots.
But his chief purpose Is to COLL attention
to tho sexual differences in one bodily or
gan-tho brain. 1t Ia matter of common
observation that women have smaller
heads than men, and it is matter of sci
entiflc observation that, in all peoples and
races without exception, the absolute
weight Of the entire brain Is, on tho aver
age, greater In men than in women. The
advocates of woman's rights have argued
that the deficiency In her brain weight
when compared with that Of men is to be
accounted for by her fewer inches, but he
quotes figures to prove that there is great
excess of brain weight In favor of the
male, even when allowance is mado for
stature. Tho average excess of weight in
the male brain over the female, between
the ages Of 20 and 30 years, is 6.O1 ounces.
Tho smaller size OF the female brain Ia
fundamental sexual distinction. 1t is not
to DO accounted for by the hypothesis that
environment, educational advantages md
habits Of life, acting through long series
of generations, have stimulated the growth
of the cerebrum in one sex more than in
tho other. This is made clear by the fact
that the same differences in brain weight
between men and women have been found
In savage races. There are also grounds
for believing that there is difference in
tho balance of parts in tho male and TO-
male brains respectively.
differentiated sexes that human progress
can alone be hoped for:
Ho is half part Of a blessed man,
Left to be divided by such u she,
And she fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
And blindness to this complementary
relation Of tho sexes, so patent to Shakes.
pcare, Is what leads wise mcn--wise, but
nt tn,n n,,tt pf htoIoo,, to
sanction interscxual competition in educa-
tion and for subsistence with its ruinous
effects.
"Those tall, graceful girls" says Sir
James in final outburst, "whom we see
around us so plentifully today-and never
in the worlds history has woman's beauty
been so beautiful as in England today
those tall, graceful, lovely girls are the off
spring of mothers who had not the ad-
vantages of n high school education.
"What will tho next generation of
English women be like? l SAW vision
once that has haunted mo ever since. 1t
was of q score Of sweet girl graduates from
celebrated college, standing together in
group on the platform Of provincial
railroad station waiting for trains to carry
them home Mt the end OF the term. Sweet
they were, doubt not; most of them car
rlcd musical Instruments, but they wero
not, upon tho whole-well, not just tho
fairest of the fair to look upon.
II am afraid shall be called ribald and
profane, but I should describe them ns
pantaloonlike girls, for many of them had
STOPPING gait and withcrcd appearance,
shrunk shanl;s and spectacles on nose. Let
us conserve tho beauty of our English girls
very jealousy. l would rather that they
roinain ignorant Of logarithms than lose
one jot of it. New York Journal