The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-10
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\ ElB7ff3F,fA lshed for many a day Is that.
i tEfAs of Professor Charles Godfrey
Leland. of Harvard University.
called THE Alternate Sex
True there9is much that Is of a nebu-.
lous nature IN the work but there is also
much that shows close and careful study,
together with clear reasoning and log-
zeal deductions. Professor Leland sets
forth in "The Alternate Sex the view
that men and women are radically diff
ferent as regards both mind and body,
although social or domestic life has given
them much Uncommon. He holds, how
L ever, that there is q female mind IN man
and n male mind in woman. and that a
female mind in man, having free access
to the Images stored in the cells of mem
Jory, calls thenfAforth in dreams and re-
syerics. the same" Being true as regards!
the masculine mind in woman. He sets
up the claim that this casts much light
4 upon the true nature of the imagination
and all creative action of the mind in
sNolvlng originality. as Is explained In de-
tail in the text, and declares that what
of late years has occipied much thought
as "the sublimial self" .the inner me-.
"the hidden soul, "unconscous cerebra-
tom and the like. may be all reduced
4. to5or fully explained by the alternate sex
In us. lie finds no line OF dcmarkationi
between the organic and the inorganic
world; that as shown by Schron, there
lis life in crystals and no step iniwhich
mentality. though in lower forms, does
1 not manifest itself;
aa The forces, he says, have developed
themselves from II primary force. and
there are somesof which we are ignorant
s Thetlaw of growth is that of accretion
or OF attraction and repulson, beginning
With any chance group of molecules
guided by certain forces, as seen In ad-
Yanced organisms.
g While there Is much In his book that Is
not in accord with the Bible. he still holds
that all effort to rise intellectually above
Il ordinary experiences. or to what is gcner-
ally known as the supernatural, should be
limited TO prayer to God ana exertion ana
culture of the will, There are, he says.
70 proofs of the existence Of God save on
purely material grounds. and from the
conclusions Of sc!enc, which all point To
K y. Yet this proof can never be absolutely
Z perfected because as mar, advances In
~ y he Is ever raising higher ideal of d.
ytnity within himself.
X Starting out With the basic idea that
1.-The feminine mind in man'is the controlling
influence Of dreams, it is noted that when
n exer we fall into a brown study, even
: While awake there often steal subtly ana
strangely into II real dreams. In this
manner unconscious cerebratlon spreads
! itself over conscious thought, as Him
of oil spreads over a pond without eX-
GLIDING the light, This, Mr.. Leland thinks
merits attention. because under many
other circumstance there is a blending
of the two minds, land mutual influence
without direct Identity OF combination.
and ne declares that the gentle and inn
perccpti BILE manner In which The dream or
Il curious and strange thoughts glide un-
hidden into our brown studies Is alto
gtther feminine, The author pI,eals To
4 his lady readers to confirm the assertion
that while the same phenomenon is not
4 50 common with them as with men, the
Thoughts, when they do come upbidden,
do SO more abruptly and strong ly-that
is TO say, IN IA more masculine manner
than with nous autres, That they do,
he declares himself wellsassured, Even
SEin allfordinary life" hs-says, when an
original idea strikes a woman. she an
Nounces II with more suddenness or en-
& phasis than a man would, as all may ycr-
4 Ny by a little obseryation.n .------,
q Now, ! must confess that none Of the
argument used thus far Is very convinc.
INK but VIC must defer 10 the knowledge